The Most Amazing Tuna Melt Panini Recipe

This Tuna Melt Panini recipe is all you need, whenever you are craving a tuna melt sandwich!

A melt sandwich is a type of hot sandwich containing cheese and some type of filling such as meat or vegetables. The sandwich is then heated until the cheese is melted. It is the filling that establishes the melt sandwich as a variation of the grilled cheese sandwich

It may be served as an open-face sandwich or a closed-face one.

One common filling is tuna with mayonnaise (tuna salad); the result is a tuna melt. Other popular choices are ham, roast beef, chicken, turkey, or a ground beef patty, which is known as a patty melt. Patty melts are a staple of the traditional American diner and were commonly found on menus as early as the 1940s.

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The Most Amazing Tuna Melt Panini Recipe

Ingredients:

8 oz can solid albacore tuna, drained

1/4 cup celery, finely diced

2 Tbsp green onion, diced

A pinch of black pepper, and garlic powder

1/2 a lemon juice

1 Tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped

2 Tbsp Mayonnaise

2 slices of cheddar cheese

1 ciabatta roll Popular Recipes

Directions:

To make this tuna melt panini we are using an 8-ounce can of solid albacore tuna. Drain the tuna and transfer into a small mixing bowl then,

add in 2 tablespoons of sliced green onions, a quarter of a cup of finely diced celery, one tablespoon of fresh parsley chopped, 1/2 a fresh lemon juice, a pinch of freshly ground black pepper, a pinch of garlic powder, and two tablespoons of mayo.

Now mix all the ingredients together, and as you do that make sure to break up the tuna.

We're using a ciabatta roll, split the roll in half and what I typically like to do is to get some of the bread out, so I have room for the tuna.

Spread your tuna salad on the roll and add two slices of cheddar cheese, and as we wait for the panini maker to warm up add a little bit of butter to the top of the roll. We are spreading a little bit of butter to the panini maker as well so we will have butter on top and bottom. Now we toast on low heat until the cheese has melted and the bread is nicely toasted.

And after a couple of minutes, your tuna melt panini should look like this!

So there you guys have it, tuna melt panini. Enjoy, buen provecho!