Creamy Tuna and Shells Casseroles
"Smooth creamy sauce--very yummy. Substitute chicken as an alternate choice."
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- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 (6 ounce) can tuna (drained, 2 cans if you like tuna)
- 1 (8 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
- 1 (8 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 small onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 8 ounces mushrooms (sliced or chopped up)
- 1 cup mayonnaise (NOT Miracle Whip)
- 1 cup milk
- 1 (8 ounce) package large shell pasta
- 1⁄4 cup butter, for sauteing vegetables
- 2 cups shredded cheese, mix jack or 2 cups cheddar cheese
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cook shell pasta according to package directions.
- Add butter to sauté pan on low-med heat.
- Add celery and onions.
- Sauté until onions almost clear.
- Add mushrooms - remove from heat.
- Drain veggies (if extra butter in pan).
- Put veggies in pan, add soup, tuna, milk, cheese until heated through and cheese melted.
- Remove from heat add mayo and cook pasta.
- Pour into baking dish, top with remaining shredded cheese bake until cheese is melted and "browning" (approx 1/2 hour).
- Remove and let sit for about 5 minutes.
- Eat.
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Reviews
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This recipe is great! I also omitted the chicken soup and used sour cream instead of mayo. All my guests at brunch loved it. Thanks! -
OMG! This was so yummy and creamy! Used 2 cans cream of chicken, omitted mushrooms, used sour cream (fat free) instead of mayo, and used mozzarella (skim milk) cheese instead of cheddar. We used cooking spray instead of butter. This was so creamy and delicious - I wanted to eat all of it and had to use some self control! haha -
We really enjoyed this made it a bit different because have to watch my salt intake & canned soups are really high, so I subed the chicken soup with a bit of sour cream cuuld have used cream cheese but didn't have any.It will go into my cookbook for another day for sure thanks for posting, oh & it is easy too. tried this again the other night but because comercial soups have alot of salt & other things in them I used a recipe on recipezaar for cream soup mix for replacing soups #57287 it is a keeper for me will always use it instead of cream soups everyone should try it... -
Good stuff! I used peas instead of mushrooms just for personal prefference. I also added the full amount of cheese to the sauce mixture, and instead of putting cheese on top, I added about 15 crumbled ritz crackers to the top before baking. When the dish was done, I sprinkled some onion powder on it, as I thought it was missing something. Next time I will add another can of tuna becuase, there was not much tuna flavor with just the one can. -
I loved the sauce in this recipe so much that I also used it for tater tot hotdish and it worked out just as well for that as it does for this delicious tuna casserole! Thanks for shareing this one!
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This was creamy and delicious! Was looking for a new tuna casserole recipe as my usual one was just a bit bland. I tried to stay true to this one but I did make some changes based on what I had at the house. I doubled the tuna, used 98% fat free cream of mushroom and cream of chicken (which looking at the fat in the nutrition facts, I think everyone should consider it). I also threw in a can of peas, I replaced the butter for extra virgin olive oil to saute the vegetables, and I use olive oil mayo. I seasoned to taste with pepper and garlic. I used different shaped noodles but pasta is pasta.<br/><br/>**Update** If you're really looking to decrease the fat content, try using non-fat greek yogurt instead of mayo!! Still tastes great! Oh, and this recipes makes at least 6 servings, not 4.
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OMG! This was so yummy and creamy! Used 2 cans cream of chicken, omitted mushrooms, used sour cream (fat free) instead of mayo, and used mozzarella (skim milk) cheese instead of cheddar. We used cooking spray instead of butter. This was so creamy and delicious - I wanted to eat all of it and had to use some self control! haha
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Good stuff! I used peas instead of mushrooms just for personal prefference. I also added the full amount of cheese to the sauce mixture, and instead of putting cheese on top, I added about 15 crumbled ritz crackers to the top before baking. When the dish was done, I sprinkled some onion powder on it, as I thought it was missing something. Next time I will add another can of tuna becuase, there was not much tuna flavor with just the one can.
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This was a great recipe! My 3 year old even loved it! Great way to hide vegies, then again, everything is yummy sauted in butter! We used can of white meat chicken instead of tuna. Man, I think I will e-mail this recipe to everyone I know! Thank you again for posting! DELICIOUS!!!!
