Tuna Casserole Recipe

I learned quite a bit about old fashioned cooking from Ma. This one is not so old fashioned, but it's definitely a family favorite!

Ma’s Tuna Casserole

1/2 stick of butter
3 c. milk
1/4 c. flour
1 bag noodles (Muellers is best)
1 sm. can peas
2 tbl. sugar
1 can tuna
10-12 slices of American cheese

Make a white sauce using the butter, milk, and flour. (Over medium heat, melt butter in a saucepan. Beat milk and flour. Add milk/flour mixture to saucepan. Raise heat to med/hi. While stirring contantly, bring to a boil and remove from heat. The sauce should be lightly-moderately thick, but it doesn’t matter too much.)

Meanwhile, bring water to boil in a pasta pan. (Cook noodles as directed. Better to slightly undercook than to overcook, but it’s not a huge deal. Strain noodles when finished.)

Pour white sauce into the pasta pan and return noodles to the pan as well.

Heat peas and strain. Add sugar and stir lightly. Add peas to the pasta pan.

Drain tuna and add to the pasta pan.

Stir entire mixture.

Rub stick of butter on edges and bottom of a 2-3 qt. baking dish.

Pour mixture into the dish and spread evenly.

Cover entire top with slices of American cheese. Place extra cheese over seams between slices.

In preheated oven, bake at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes. (It’s okay if the cheese gets some brown spots.)

Let cool a bit. Then serve in sections (like lasagna).

To reheat, cut a section and place on a plate. Heat in a microwave. (It helps to cut the section in halves or thirds before reheating.) This is one of those dishes that gets better when reheated!

Enjoy!!!