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Gruyère Tuna Melt Recipe

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Gruyère Tuna Melt
Difficulty: Easy | Total Time: 20 mins | Makes: 4 sandwiches

The tuna melt is a diner classic, but we decided to take it to the next level by combining our Grown-Up Tuna Salad with Gruyère cheese and garlic toast.

What to buy:
Be sure to use a good-quality cheese for this recipe. Avoid buying the pre-grated kind: It won’t give much flavor. If you don’t like Gruyère, an aged cheddar is a good substitute.

This recipe was featured as part of our Most Delicious Sandwiches photo gallery.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 medium garlic clove, peeled
  • 8 (1/2-inch) slices good-quality sourdough bread
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Grown-Up Tuna Salad
  • 4 ounces finely grated Gruyère cheese
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Rub the garlic clove on both sides of the bread slices, brush one side of each bread slice with olive oil, and season well with salt and pepper.
  2. Heat a large frying pan over medium-low heat. Meanwhile, top 4 of the bread slices with 1/2 cup each of the tuna salad. Top the tuna salad with an ounce of the grated cheese and close the sandwiches with the remaining bread slices.
  3. Place the sandwiches in the heated pan and cook until the bread is golden brown and the cheese has melted, about 5 to 8 minutes per side.

Beverage pairing: Trumer Pils, California. A beer is always a good match with a tuna melt, and this one has just a touch of hoppy florality to make things interesting. It also has a lot of malty semisweetness that will go wonderfully with the nutty Gruyère.

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COMMENT

  • A suggestion for a under $ 18. a can tuna?

  • Just a squeeze of fresh lemon puts the punch in this recipe. I'm going to have this for a tea tomorrow.

  • Aida,
    Don't believe everything you read...A brief encounter with a clove of garlic and a slice of San Frans best sourdough (or Adult tuna salad) is definitely not a curse in my Twilight kitchen.
    Love & letters from the crypt!

  • OH HELL YES! If tuna knew it's gonna end in this sandwich, it would jump voluntary abord the trawler! The sandwich is a wonderful mix of freshness from lemon zest and fennel, and the savory gruyere and aromatic garlic. Delicious and flavorful!

  • This sounds great. Any excuse to eat Gruyere!
    I think I would probably try using fresh tuna steak for an ultra-melt, and flake it in. I just had tuna setak and now I'm hungry again!

  • Just tried this for a quick late lunch, and it was very nice.
    I even got some Trumer Pils to boot.
    The Gruyère cheese added a nice twist to a classic.
    I even Experimented making one with a Port-Salut, which was equally as yummy.