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Whether you have too much leftover tuna salad or you want a new tuna dish, Leftover Tuna Salad Patties are sure to please! Within 30 minutes you can have a healthy tasty dish. It’s perfect straight out of the oven or cold the next day. Yum!

Whether you have too much tuna salad or you want a new tuna dish, Leftover Tuna Salad Patties is sure to please! Within 30 minutes you can have a healthy tasty dish. It's perfect straight out of the oven or cold the next day.  | baked tuna patty recipe | healthy clean eating fish recipe | healthy and easy family meal | kid friendly dinner recipe | #dinner #tuna #recipe #healthyrecipe #tunapatty | thishappymommy.com

Whether it’s a big party or a small get together, there is always too much food. Which means one thing, leftovers. Lots and lots of leftovers.

Recently we had way too much leftover tuna salad. After two days in the fridge, we knew that the tuna salad would not last much longer. (It’s only good for three days in the fridge.) We had to decide what to do with the leftover tuna salad. There were only three options:

  1. Freeze the leftover tuna salad in sandwich-sized portions
  2. Make a new dish out of the leftovers
  3. Throw the tuna salad away

Since I love trying new things and I hate unnecessary waste, I decided to make something new – Leftover Tuna Salad Patties. If you don’t have leftover tuna salad, that’s not a problem. Simply combine two cans of tuna with low fat mayonnaise and Greek yogurt and you’re ready to go.

Whether you have too much tuna salad or you want a new tuna dish, Leftover Tuna Salad Patties is sure to please! Within 30 minutes you can have a healthy tasty dish. It's perfect straight out of the oven or cold the next day.  | baked tuna patty recipe | healthy clean eating fish recipe | healthy and easy family meal | kid friendly dinner recipe | #dinner #tuna #recipe #healthyrecipe #tunapatty | thishappymommy.com

How to Make Leftover Tuna Salad Patties

Leftover Tuna Salad Patties taste like a perfectly flavoured tuna sandwich, in a patty form. The combination of garlic, celery salt, and sautéed onions boost the tuna salad’s savouriness. Sautéing the onions mellows the intense bite of the onion, giving them a lightly sweetened flavour. The Italian bread crumbs finish off the flavour, giving the patty a lightly cheesy essence.

Whether you have leftover tuna or not, these patties are so easy to make. The first step is sautéing the onions. It’s so worth the extra few minutes of cooking. It takes the flavour of the patties from yum to seriously yummy.

Next, you add the rest of the patty ingredients and mix to combine. To give the patties a uniform shape, I use a 1/4 cup collapsible measuring cup (the Chef’n Sleek Collapsible Measuring Cups). Simply spoon the tuna salad mixture into the measuring cup, press firmly, and gently pop out the patty. Place the formed patty on a parchment paper covered baking sheet and you have perfectly shaped Leftover Tuna Salad Patties.

Now all that’s left is baking. Your oven will bake them up to patty perfection!

Whether you have too much tuna salad or you want a new tuna dish, Leftover Tuna Salad Patties is sure to please! Within 30 minutes you can have a healthy tasty dish. It's perfect straight out of the oven or cold the next day.  | baked tuna patty recipe | healthy clean eating fish recipe | healthy and easy family meal | kid friendly dinner recipe | #dinner #tuna #recipe #healthyrecipe #tunapatty | thishappymommy.com

Perfect for Batch Cooking

Leftover Tuna Salad Patties are easily freezable. If you make too many, which we often do, you can save the rest for later. There’s no need to eat them right away.

Simply place the patties in a freezer bag and they’re good for three months. It’s always great to have a few meals in the freezer. You never know when you’re going to need a quick, healthy homemade meal.

Whether you have too much tuna salad or you want a new tuna dish, Leftover Tuna Salad Patties is sure to please! Within 30 minutes you can have a healthy tasty dish. It's perfect straight out of the oven or cold the next day.  | baked tuna patty recipe | healthy clean eating fish recipe | healthy and easy family meal | kid friendly dinner recipe | #dinner #tuna #recipe #healthyrecipe #tunapatty | thishappymommy.com

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Leftover Tuna Salad Patties

Don’t let your leftover tuna salad go to waste. Leftover Tuna Salad Patties taste like a perfectly flavoured tuna sandwich. With sautéed onions, garlic, celery salt, and Italian bread crumbs, it’s hard not to love this flavour boosted patty.

  • Author: Jessica
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Total Time: 30 mins
  • Yield: 4 to 5 1x
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Ingredients

  • 1 1/5 cups leftover tuna
  • – 2 (6 ounce) cans of tuna, drained and flaked
  • – 1 tablespoon low fat mayonnaise
  • – 2 tablespoons fat free plain Greek yogurt
  • 3 tablespoons egg whites
  • 1/4 cup onion, diced
  • 1/2 cup Italian bread crumbs
  • 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon celery salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 F (190 C).
  2. Coat a non-stick pan with cooking spray, sauté onion for 5 to 8 minutes, or until brown. Remove when done.
  3. Combine leftover tuna (or canned tuna with mayonnaise and yogurt), egg whites, onion, bread crumbs, garlic powder, and celery salt.
  4. Form patties, place on parchment paper covered baking sheet.
  5. Bake 10 minutes on each side.
  6. Enjoy!

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Whether you have too much tuna salad or you want a new tuna dish, Leftover Tuna Salad Patties is sure to please! Within 30 minutes you can have a healthy tasty dish. It's perfect straight out of the oven or cold the next day.  | baked tuna patty recipe | healthy clean eating fish recipe | healthy and easy family meal | kid friendly dinner recipe | #dinner #tuna #recipe #healthyrecipe #tunapatty | thishappymommy.com

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  1. Lisa Brown

    Just made these and they were delicious! I did make some changes. I cracked a regular egg because I couldn’t be bothered to separate the whites, and I used dill instead of celery seed because I didn’t have any. I also added a generous amount of romano cheese. I would absolutely do this again with leftover tuna. Thanks for the recipe!

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  11. XmasDolly

    Now this is the kinda stuff I like. Thanks for sharing. When the family goes down from six (6) to 2 and you still cook for an army what do you do? I’m still trying to figure that out. bwahahahaha any hints??? Have a great day & thanks for sharing. I added it to my cookbook! hugs

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    • Jessica

      This is a great recipe to make when you are used to cooking for a lot of people. You can make a big batch and then freeze the rest for later. Leftover Tuna Salad Patties freeze really well.

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  14. Paula

    Always makes me smile when I see or hear someone say they don’t like anything going to waste. Great idea since I have to cook for one. Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking the Tossing a Salad post.

    Reply

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