Tuna Casserole
This recipe comes from my grandmother Myrna, with only a couple of minor modifications.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- one onion, chopped
- 2 cups milk
- 2 cans tuna
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon basil
- one box frozen peas
- four slices whole wheat bread, cut into cubes
- 8 ounces grated cheese
- two tomatoes, sliced
Instructions
- Oven: 350
- Mix flour and olive oil in sauce pan.
- Add onion, and saute until onion is soft.
- Add milk, a little at a time, stirring contiuously.
- Add tuna, salt, pepper, basil.
- Cook until thickened.
- Add peas.
- Mix bread and cheese.
- Assemble casserole in a 13x8 baking dish in layers:
- half of tuna mixture
- half of bread/cheese
- rest of tuna mixture
- tomatoes
- rest of bread/cheese
- Bake 30 minutes at 350.