Canadian

Tuna Casserole

Name: Tuna Casserole
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 12 oz egg noodles; 3 cans canned tuna; 2 cans condensed cream of mushroom soup; 1/2 cup milk; 1 cup frozen peas; 1/2 cup breadcrumbs; 1 tbsp butter; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Tuna Casserole is Canadian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

12 oz egg noodles
3 cans canned tuna
2 cans condensed cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup milk
1 cup frozen peas
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 375F and boil the egg noodles according to the packet directions, then drain.
Stir the condensed soup and milk together in a large bowl until smooth.
Fold in the drained tuna, peas, and cooked noodles, and season with pepper.
Spoon into a baking dish and scatter with the breadcrumbs, dotting with the butter.
Bake until bubbling and golden on top, about 25 minutes.

Watch how to cook Tuna Casserole

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How to Make the BEST Tuna Noodle Casserole - Old School Recipe Play the video

Serve it with

A Canadian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tuna Casserole, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Green Beans
  
  10 min
What it is eaten with
- Canadian Dinner Rolls
  
  12 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Tuna Casserole carries dairy, gluten, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tuna Casserole
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Gluten	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	Baked Mac and Cheese
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 660 kcal
Protein: 51 g
Carbs: 85 g
Fat: 13 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 1480 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tuna Casserole takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.