Hearty Salad with a Tuna Melt

Ingredients

Tuna mixture:

• 3 cans tuna
• celery
• onion
• miracle whip
• seasoned salt
• dill weed
• dill pickle

For the Salad:

• lettuce mix
• tomato
• onion
• sweet pepper
• cheese
• ham

For the Salad Dressing:

• ranch dressing
• lemon juice
• olive oil

For the Sandwich:

• bread, toasted
• butter
• french onion flavored butter
• tuna mixture
• sharp cheddar cheese
• jarlberg cheese

For the Second Salad Dressing:

• western salad dressing

Salad and Tuna Melt

Since we cannot leave a simple idea alone, we decided to have hearty salads and a tuna melt.

Since my hubby had already mixed up the tuna mixture, I was able to just skip to the salad building and tuna melt making.

Salad: lettuce in bowl. Cut rest of ingredients into bite size pieces. Top lettuce. Then, add salad dressing. For mine, I poured a small amount of olive oil across the top of the salad, then, drizzled a small amount of lemon juice across, then finished with a liberal amount of ranch dressing. As I pulled the pieces out of the bowl, the three mixed together. It was amazing. For my hubby's salad, he simply squirted best western dressing on his. A small amount of fresh ground pepper, and onward to our first bites.

The tuna melt was created with first toasting the bread. Initially I thought we were making open face sandwiches, but then, at presentation, discovered that he wanted a cover, so I ended up making toast for the cover.

Toast. Rub with french onion butter, place tuna mixture on. Place cheese slices across tuna. Place in pizza baker for approximately 5 minutes, enough to melt the cheese. Watch bread so it doesn't burn.

Open Face - No Cover or Covered

Salad

Once again, the ingredients are assembled and sliced in bite size pieces.

The options, in our refrigerator, for a hearty salad, also include sliced hard boiled eggs, pickled fish, pickled onions, carrot sticks and green or black olives. I did not include any of these on todays salad, but, perhaps next time.

As someone pointed out, a normal salad is plain lettuce. Adding all the ingredients to our salad, makes an additional meal. Smile.

A Simple Salad Dressing

Three ingredients:

Olive oil, drizzled across top of lettuce.

Lemon juice, also drizzled across lettuce.

Ranch dressing, squirted on top of lettuce.

Comments

Char Milbrett (author) from Minnesota on March 26, 2021:

Kiwi berry, thank you for your comment!, And Urwa, thank you as well!

kiwi berry on March 26, 2021:

It looks yummy ! Good job

Urwa from Pakistan Cooking and Baking Expert on March 26, 2021:

You write a very good and useful recipes and article for us. thank you dear