Tuna Potato Chip Casserole - FAIL.

I like tuna and for awhile, I’ve been searching for tuna recipes, particularly casseroles.

So I tried one last night:

Tuna Potato Chip Casserole

Ingredients

1 can of light tuna
1 can of fat-free condensed mushroom soup
1 can of peas (drained)
1 cup of shredded Swiss cheese
1 bag of plain potato chips

(I think the potato chips just cancelled out the ‘light’ & ‘fat-free’ components.)

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 350F for 5 minutes.

2.Grease a small/medium casserole dish.

3.Layer with: crushed potato chips, tuna flakes, peas, mushroom soup, and shredded Swiss cheese (in any order).

4.Repeat layer (the dish I used was small and deep so I made two fat layers).

5.Last layer – instead of crushing the chips, I covered the mushroom soup with whole potato chips then layered it with the cheese.

6.Cover with aluminum foil.

7.Leave in oven for 30 minutes, uncover and wait another 10 minutes.


What went wrong? The fishy taste intensified like a millions times and me not like fishy taste. Also, I was surprised that it wasn’t really hot. I thought leaving it in the oven for 40 minutes would burn the darn thing but nope, I didn’t have to cool it before eating.

I suppose the meal wasn’t too bad since I finished 2 servings! I just couldn’t make up my mind about the sharp taste. Was it the fish? The salty chips? Or my dirty hands?

I let The Hubby try and he noticed the fishy taste right away. He didn’t mind it much but suggested maybe next time to try chicken. And I agree! Everything else was yummy except for the fishy taste.

We’re both having it for lunch today (with slices of French bread) so hopefully it won’t be too bad.

And I can’t wait to try it with chicken! Maybe I'll add a few spices – like salt. Is salt a spice? Because I thought was a bit bland. Maybe I’ll bake the chicken first with Greek spice (yummers). That should add mo’ flava!

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Update:

The tuna casserole ended up tasting so much better overnight! Even The Hubby noticed that the fishy taste was gone! Still, I don’t think I will make this again. I’ll always remember how it first tasted but just wanted to report that no one go sick!