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Joyce's Tuna Casserole
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TitleJoyce's Tuna Casserole
DescriptionHelen Mann baked this delicious savoury dish with many variations, a family favourite recipe from her mum Joyce, passed on from her friend Rachel. It was influenced by the work of NZ cookery writer Digby Law, known as 'The High Priest of Vegetables.'
Ingredients:
2 x medium or 1 x large tun tuna (plain or flavoured, broken into flakes
2 x medium onions chopped and cooked transparent (2 mins in microwave)
Salt and Pepper (or lemon pepper)
2.5 cups cooked white or brown rice
1/2 tin evaporated milk or coconut milk
3/4 cup grated tasty cheese
1 x tin asparagus soup (or packet variety made with 1/2 milk, coconut milk or water)
3 x crushed Weetbix (normal or GF)
50g melted butter
Method:
In a big bowl, mix together all but the LAST TWO ingredients. Add extra milk if needed.
Pour into greased casserole dish.
Mix melted butter and crushed Weetbix and spread over the top of the mixture.
Cook in medium oven for about an hour (put a tent of foil over the top if the Weetbix starts to brown too much)
Variations:
Add frozen peas, kernel corn, chopped dried tomato, spring onion, kaffir lime leaves (sliced thinly), parsley, grated carrot.
You can omit the tin of soup or packet soup mix, and make a paste with 2 tablespoons of peaflour mixed with a little of the milk, to thicken.
Date2023PhotographerMichelle Sim
DescriptionHelen Mann baked this delicious savoury dish with many variations, a family favourite recipe from her mum Joyce, passed on from her friend Rachel. It was influenced by the work of NZ cookery writer Digby Law, known as 'The High Priest of Vegetables.'Ingredients:
2 x medium or 1 x large tun tuna (plain or flavoured, broken into flakes
2 x medium onions chopped and cooked transparent (2 mins in microwave)
Salt and Pepper (or lemon pepper)
2.5 cups cooked white or brown rice
1/2 tin evaporated milk or coconut milk
3/4 cup grated tasty cheese
1 x tin asparagus soup (or packet variety made with 1/2 milk, coconut milk or water)
3 x crushed Weetbix (normal or GF)
50g melted butter
Method:
In a big bowl, mix together all but the LAST TWO ingredients. Add extra milk if needed.
Pour into greased casserole dish.
Mix melted butter and crushed Weetbix and spread over the top of the mixture.
Cook in medium oven for about an hour (put a tent of foil over the top if the Weetbix starts to brown too much)
Variations:
Add frozen peas, kernel corn, chopped dried tomato, spring onion, kaffir lime leaves (sliced thinly), parsley, grated carrot.
You can omit the tin of soup or packet soup mix, and make a paste with 2 tablespoons of peaflour mixed with a little of the milk, to thicken.
Date2023PhotographerMichelle SimConnections
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Written BySarah DavyDate Written2023
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Joyce's Tuna Casserole (2023). Selwyn Stories, accessed 06/04/2026, https://selwynstories.selwynlibraries.co.nz/nodes/view/5614
