Quick and Easy Tuna Casserole

This is a great casserole recipe and there’s the catch! You’re making a casserole, not a one pot meal. Submitter apparently missed an important step-you need to bake this to make it a casserole! You should partially saute the onions for a couple minutes but don’t make them mush. Yes, you mix all the ingredients together, add seasonings of your choice, then put it in a casserole dish, top with crackers and butter or potato chips, and bake it at 350 degrees for least 20 minutes til cheese melts, and your casserole is hot and bubbly. Enjoy!

I made this tonight. To echo what others have said, it’s a good base recipe, but I definitely had to make modifications. In my opinion, when you have to make modifications to make the recipe good, it’s not worthy of 4-5 stars. Like others have said, definitely sauté the onions first until they’re tender. The sauce was also way too thick, so I added half and half until it was a creamier consistency like with Tuna Helper. I also added an extra can of tuna, and seasoned with extra salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder. My husband really loved it, and he doesn’t always love my cooking so that says a lot! lol. So, it’s a good base, but with modifications.

I’m giving this 5 stars based on the recipe along with modifications from other reviews. I used shells instead of egg noodles, cream of chicken instead of mushroom, added sour cream, shredded Colby jack cheese triple the amount of tuna, for the topping I used crushed Ritz crackers and melted margarine. I just wanted to note that I have never made this before and I doubled the recipe. I made this for a large group of staff for lunch. Everyone ranted and raved so much that it was the best thing they have ever had and how much flavor it had. I also seasoned the entire mixture with garlic powder, onion powder, pepper and very little Lawrys garlic salt. I also used canned corn, peas, and mixed veggies. I will forever use the recipe I left in this review with the modifications listed. Everyone that ate it said to save the recipe and never lose it. ❤️

Great. Even though I over cooked the noodles a bit.

Definitely cook the onions first! It’s very good as is! I used canned peas, but you could also use a canned peas and carrots mix if you’d prefer that. Also, I somewhat prefer it with canned chicken, actually, as I’m not a huge fan of tuna, but my husband loves tuna! He doesn’t really even notice a difference if I swap in the chicken, though! LOL!

As written, it was just OK. For me, the onions should be cooked before, not added in raw. The second time I made it with the cooked onion and it was much better. Also, if you are going to review a recipe, give it the stars it deserves AS WRITTEN. Don’t give it 5 stars after you made massive changes to it.

Brilliant!! What a, fast and delicious way to make tuna casserole. Everything goes in one pot so it’s really easy to modify. Add more tuna, cream of mushroom sauce, cheese, or spices to your taste. Super easy clean up (one pot and a colander) and you don’t have to use the oven and heat up the kitchen. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Everything MINUS the onion, one whole onion in this dish is way too much and ruined the entire meal. My question is who likes onion that much? Entire waste of food 🙁

Nice meal during Lent. Easy and fast.

Made this last minute for dinner! Family enjoyed it, especially our very picky toddler! Will make again but add an extra can of tuna

I make this thing all the time, remove the cheese and onions and it’s a good pot that anyone that has taste buds will love

Great base recipe. I made changes. Used 2 cans of water to add to the 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup. Instead of 10 slices of American cheese, I used 4 inches of Velveeta off a block. I sautéed the onions before adding to the recipe. They added a great dimension of flavor. The resulting casserole wasn’t dry, and was very creamy and good. Serve with potato chips.

I was actually amazed at how good this was, after doubting it because of the ease of the recipe. It really is very good. Of course, the ingredients in it are classical and always work well together. It did improve a bit after refrigerating it, which is also common with casseroles. I made the mistake of using albacore in olive oil, so it had a bit of heaviness at first, until the flavors mellowed. A super recipe, especially if you’re in a hurry– and it makes several dinners ahead of time. And it freezes very well.

Just wasted two cans of tuna and condensed soup on this recipe. It is BLAND is just all around terrible. Also why don’t you cook the onions???

Yummy! Used cream of celery (had it on hand) and sautéed my onion, otherwise stuck to it!

Very easy and delicious. Will make it again.

It’s good as is, I omitted the onions because my family doesn’t like them.

I made it and it turned out great. I didn’t have egg noodles so I broke up thin spaghetti noodles and I didn’t use frozen peas I used can peas and I chose not to add the onions. And our Tuna Casserole turned out really good thank you for this recipe we will definitely be making this again!

My family and I love this! Only thing I did different was add mushrooms and I sautéed the onions before I added it to the casserole. It’s so good!

I made this according to the directions, but made one small change. I boiled the noodles by themselves, and steam cooked the peas, because boiling vegetables boils out 90% of the nutrition, were steaming them doesn’t. I also had to use 5 cans of tuna, because of how skimpy they are with tuna. Other than that, this is a very good and simple meal that everyone loves.

so easy and tasty