Tuna Bars – Cooking Tuna Bars
Quick easy and tasty little snacks. Tuna Bars are a great way to cook your tuna. You can eat them hot or cold and with or without salad and vegetables.
Feel free to add additional ingredients to give extra flavour or cuisine to your tuna bars. Soy sauce for a Asian flavour, lime and salt for a Mexican flavor, tomatos or capers for a Mediterranean flavour, mayonnaise or wasabi for a Japanese twist.
Let’s get straight into it. Here is what you will need to make about 16 tuna bars, enough for 4 people (or just you, because they are that good).
Ingredients for Tuna Bars
- Tuna 1lb or 500g: Diced or minced raw tuna.
- Panko breadcrumbs 1 cup: These will help bind and also provide texture.
- Eggs 3: the egg also acts as a binding agent.
- 1 cup of tasty cheese.
- 1 small onion: finely chopped.
- 1 cup of milk.
- Chefs choice 1 tablespoons of finely chopped green herbs; Examples include; oregano, parsley, spring onions.
Serves 4 – Approximately 16 tuna fish bars
Preparation Time 10 mins
Cooking Time 15 mins
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Cooking Tuna Bars Instructions
Tip – Prepare your ingredients and work area first, because this can get a little messy. Have a dish or tin ready for the tuna bar mixture.
- Preheat oven to 180°C or 350° Fahrenheit
- Combine eggs, milk and breadcrumbs in a large bowl.
- Add and mix through tuna, onion and herbs.
- Pour mixture into a greased slice tin or square casserole dish.
- Bake in oven for 40 minutes, let stand 10 minutes.
- Cut into squares, serve hot or cold.
Tip – Can be refrigerated for up to 24 hours later.
Panko Breadcrumbs for Cooking Tuna Bars
These are Japanese breadcrumbs which are much bigger and lighter than regular breadcrumbs. This means they go extra crispy! You’ll find them in nearly all supermarkets/grocery stores in the Asian section. You can use regular breadcrumbs if you cannot source Panko Breadcrumbs.
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Tuna Bars Tip
If you’ve got leftovers (which might not happen), you can store them in the fridge for up to 24 hours. These bars are surprisingly good cold the next day.
So yeah, that’s it. Super easy, right! Tuna bars are a great snack, something you can whip up with pretty basic ingredients. Plus, they are way more exciting than another boring sandwich. Give ’em a try and let me know what you think