You might have made an easy tuna noodle casserole before and this is a pretty easy crockpot recipe for one of the best tuna casserole recipes. You might already have most of the ingredients to hand. To make this quick tuna casserole you simple combine everything, sprinkle some potato chips over the top, and let it cook for several hours until it is done. This simple recipe for tuna casserole is tasty as well as simple and the eggs, celery soup, peas, and tuna go very nicely together. You can serve this tuna casserole by itself or with boiled potatoes or even mashed potatoes.
Since this recipe can be cooked for five to eight hours and it will not be ruined if you leave it even longer, this is a nice meal to make if you do not know how long you are going to be out for. It will be hot and cooked after five hours but also fine after nine hours. Fish can dry out when you cook it with dry heat cooking methods but since you are using canned tuna in a moist recipe that will not happen. Also, canned tuna is already cooked so you are just blending flavors, rather than actually cooking anything.
An easy tuna noodle casserole makes a great dinner if you just want something easy but homemade and you can serve this delicious and simple recipe for tuna casserole with noodles or stir cooked noodles into the dish half an hour before the end of the cooking time, to allow the noodles to soak up some of the tuna casserole flavor.
Ingredients -
2 cans tuna, drained and flaked
¼ teaspoon black pepper
1 cup diced celery
1 can cream of celery soup
1 ½ cups crushed potato chips
½ cup mayonnaise
½ cup frozen peas
4 hard boiled eggs, chopped
Preparation:
Grease the inside of the crockpot.
Combine everything except half the crushed potato chips and add to the crockpot.
Top with the rest of the potato chips.
Cover and cook for 5 to 8 hours on low.
(Serves 3)
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This is a nice looking dish but possibly one of the easiest crockpot recipes of all time. All you need to do is combine a few ingredients in the slow cooker and you will come home to an amazing-smelling, wonderful-tasting quick tuna noodle casserole. Actually, the noodles are optional but you might like to add some, since they do go nicely. Alternatively, you can serve potatoes or French fries with this. The peas add color and flavor and the eggs add protein. This is quite a high-protein dish because of the tuna too, so if you need some energy why not make this simple recipe for tuna casserole?