Three Cheese Tuna Melt
 
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Cuisine: American
Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 1 can of tuna
  • ½ cup of cottage cheese
  • ¼ cup of mayonnaise
  • 2-3 medium pickles or 2 spears
  • ½ a red onion
  • salt and pepper
  • sliced Swiss cheese
  • lots of shredded cheddar
  • bread/toast/bun of choice
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to about 350f/175c.
  2. In a bowl, combine the tuna, cottage cheese and mayonnaise.
  3. Dice the pickles and onion and mix them into the tuna mixture with a dash of salt and pepper.
  4. Lay two slices of bread out on a cookie sheet, layer a couple slices of swiss on top and divide the tuna mixture across it. (There may be extra … it depends how thick you like your tuna melt.) Top with the cheddar and put in the oven for a few minutes along with the remaining slices of bread on the side.
  5. Once the cheese starts to melt (about 5-10min), squish the remaining slices on top and bake for about 5 more minutes until it’s nice and toasty.
Notes
I make this in the oven (obviously). Unless you make this super thin (which I do not like to do), this sandwich is not very conducive to being grilled and flipped. A sandwich press would be the best and most efficient way to make this, but I haven’t owned one in quite some time, so the oven method works for me.

Worth noting is that the original recipe was for an open-faced sandwich – which is how I prepared it for a long time. Personally, this is a lunch food for me and I just find it easier to take to work in normal sandwich form. However, if you go open-faced, stick with 4 slices of bread, but divide the tuna and cheese across all 4 evenly.
Recipe by OntheFly Recipes at https://www.ontheflyrecipes.com/2015/04/triple-cheese-tuna-melt/