Tuna salad on toast with cucumber and egg
This shelf holds ready-made tuna salad with water chestnuts and pickled cucumber built in, so tonight you'll warm the tuna gently, then toast bread and build an open-faced sandwich with a soft egg and crisp greens. The kit does the heavy lifting.
About 430 calories a serving, 27 g protein, 39 g carbohydrate, 20 g fat. From USDA figures for 100% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.
To buy
- 4 slices sliced bread
- 2 cups mixed greens or spinach
From your shelf
- 1 deli style wild caught lunch-to-go tuna salad kit, deli style (Starkist)
Staples
- 2 tablespoons butter
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- 2 eggs
- Set a small skillet over medium heat with 1 tablespoon of butter. Open the tuna salad kit and tip the contents into a bowl; warm it gently over the skillet or reheat it in the microwave for 1 minute, stirring once, until just warmed through.
- Toast 4 slices of bread until golden at the edges. Spread the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter on each slice while still warm.
- Heat a separate small skillet over medium-low heat with a touch of butter. Crack 2 eggs into the pan and cook to runny yolk, about 4 minutes, seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Divide the mixed greens between 2 plates. Set 2 pieces of toast on each plate, top with a spoonful of warm tuna salad, then crown each with a fried egg.
Note The tuna salad keeps refrigerated for two days; serve any extra cold with crackers or stirred into lettuce wraps. Stretch this by adding sliced avocado or tomato if you have them.
On the label
TUNA: LIGHT TUNA, WATER, WATER CHESTNUTS, VINEGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: CELERY, CURED CUCUMBERS, EGG YOLK, ONION POWDER, MUSTARD FLOUR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH (CORN), SALT, SUGAR, CARRAGEENAN, XANTHAN GUM, CELLULOSE GEL, NATURAL FLAVORS, SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, COLOR ADDED. CRACKERS: ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, FERROUS FUMARATE, NIACIN, RIBOFLAVIN, THIAMIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL, SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: LEAVENING (AMMONIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), SALT, MALT EXTRACT, SOY LECITHIN.
Starkist, deli salads, serving 112 GRM, package 4 oz/112 g. Ingredients as printed on the label.
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Cooks as tuna, salad kit, canned tuna. Half of it left? Use up the tuna.