Easiest Tuna Pie Recipe

This is one of the Easiest Tuna pie recipe you’ll ever find. An affordable, quick, but still deliciously crispy and creamy snack that we’re absolutely sure you’ll love. All you need are carrots, onions, your favorite choice of canned tuna, mayo, cheese, all purpose cream, some slices of white bread, eggs, breadcrumbs, and oil to fry everything up. Missing the seasonal Jollibee tuna pie ? Try out this budget friendly irresistible savory golden bar and you’re sure to be shocked by how easy it is to do at home !

Easiest Tuna Pie Recipe :

Ingredients :

Filling

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 small carrot ( chopped )
• 1 onion ( chopped )
• 2 cans tuna
• 2 tablespoons mayo
• 1 cup cheese ( chopped )
• 1 pack all purpose cream
• Add salt and pepper to taste if needed 

Crust

• White Bread ( sliced )
• 2 beaten eggs
• Breadcrumbs
• Oil for frying

Steps :

1. First prepare the filling by straining the tuna. Press the tuna over a mesh strainer to remove most of the excess oil. Set aside.

2. In a pan at medium heat, add oil and saute carrots for a few minutes before adding the onions. Once the onions are soft, add in the drained tuna. Mix well. 

3. Then mix in mayo and cheese. Pour in all purpose cream and give it a good stir. Set aside to cool.

4. Prepare the bread slices by flattening it with a rolling pin or the palm of your hands. Fill one half with 2 – 3 tablespoons of the filling. Fold and seal with a fork. Don’t mind the cracks since these will be covered later on.

5. Dip the bread in a bowl of beaten eggs. Then coat with the breadcrumbs. Repeat until the sandwiches are all fully coated.

6. Fill a pan at medium heat with oil. Once it starts bubbling add in the sandwiches. Fry and flip until both sides have browned. Serve while warm!

How did the Tuna pie gain popularity ?

Eaten as a snack, appetizer, or some even eat it for breakfast. This deliciously addicting crisp savory filled ‘pies’ gained the peak of its popularity from Jollibee’s Crispy Tuna Pies. The Jollibee pies were once seasonal gaining a mass of fans due to not only being Yummy but by being a ‘rare’ snack you have to go to the store or order online to get before anyone else. Though since 2021 the tuna pie has since been added into the menu and is now ‘available forever!’. It has two options, original and spicy and can be bought as a solo or trio amount to 53 pesos and 156 pesos for the 3. While it is a fair price to many, you can still find many others creating their own version of the tuna dish online with better and fuller filling. Being able to make them even more affordable and filling. Like this recipe that just needs a few ingredients you can easily find at home or at the grocery store. It’s also great for those wanting to freeze and fry these to keep them for longer.

How to make this Easy Tuna Pie Recipe ?

To make this delectable snack all you need to do is prepare the filling first. In a pan, saute the vegetables and aromatics first-carrots for a bit before adding the onions and cooking them until soft. When adding more vegetables, always cook the ‘harder’ vegetables before adding in the ‘softer’ or easily cooked ones. Then add in your drained tuna. Mix in mayo and cheese until it looks like a really thick sauce before pouring in the all purpose cream. You want everything to simmer together to meld the flavors together. Once slightly thick, set this aside to thicken further. 

Prepare the crust by taking a slice of white bread and flattening it with a rolling pin or simply use the palm of your hands. Once flat enough, fill one half with the filling, making sure not to put too much or it’ll burst if you try to fry it later on. Fold the edges to cover and seal the seam by pressing the edges with a fork. It might look like there are too many cracks right now but don’t worry, it’ll be covered by breadcrumbs. To cover this you’ll need to beat some eggs which will act as the adhesive to the crumbs. Once it’s well coated with the eggs, coat these with the breadcrumbs ( panko ). After everything has been covered, prepare a pan with enough oil. Once it starts bubbling carefully place in the ‘sandwiches’ and fry until both sides are golden. Flip if needed. Place this over a kitchen towel or strainer to keep them crisp and warm. Serve while it’s still warm!

Questions

• Additional Ingredients 
  • For a fuller sandwich, try adding a rectangular slice of scrambled egg, a mashed boiled egg, or a small sized sunny side egg ( you can also use quail eggs if you’d like ) over the filling before carefully folding the bread. Make sure to add less of the filling to fit everything in. This makes for a Crispy Cheesy Tuna pie with Egg sandwich.
  • Make a really cheesy tuna pie recipe by adding twice more of the recipe’s cheese into the mix, you can also replace the cheese with mozzarella, brie, cheddar, or a combination of everything.
  • You can also choose to add other greens like spinach, basil, broccoli, and other vegetables like mushrooms, potatoes, making sure to cook these with the other vegetables before mixing in the tuna to make sure they do not come out too raw.

• How to make sure it stays crunchy ?

To make this a super long lasting crunchy tuna pie, try double frying. After frying the first batch, let this cool over a kitchen towel or strainer, not overlapping the sandwiches over each other. Once these cool down, fry these one more time until it’s slightly more golden brown then cool over a strainer or kitchen towel once again to absorb any of the excess oils. This will keep it crisp.

Try our other Yummy Sandwich Recipes :

• Ham and Cheese Rolls
• No Oven No Egg Bread  
• Crab Sandwich
• Hotdog Cheese Rolls  
• Mango Bread Pie

Easiest Tuna Pie Resipi ( Tagalog ) :

Mga Sangkap :

Palaman

• 1 kutsarang mantika
• 1 maliit na karot ( tinadtad )
• 1 sibuyas ( tinadtad )
• 2 lata ng tuna
• 2 kutsarang mayo
• 1 tasa keso ( hiniwa ng maliliit )
• 1 pakete all purpose cream
• Haluan ng asin o paminta kung kinakailngan

Crust

• Puting Tinapay ( hiwa )
• 2 binati na itlog
• Breadcrumbs
• Mantika pang prito

Paano Lutuin :

1. Una, ihanda ang palaman. Salain ang tuna, pigain gamit ang mesh strainer para maipiga ang sobra na mantika nito. Itabi.
2. Sa kawali na nasa katamtamang init, lagyan ng mantika at lutuin ang mga karots ng ilang minuto bago haluan ng sibuyas. Pag lumambot na ang mga sibuyas ihalo dito ang piniga na tuna.
3. Haluan ng mayo at keso. Ibuhos dito ang all purpose cream at haluin ng mabuti. Itabi para palamigin.
4. Ihanda ang mga tinapay, i-flatten ito gamit ang rolling pin o mga palad. Ilagay ang 2 – 3 kutsara ng palaman sa kalahati ng tinapay. Tiklopin at iselyo gamit ang tinidor. Di kailangang pansinin ang mga bitak sa tinapay dahil matatago naman ang mga ito.
5. Isawsaw ang mga tinapay sa mangkok na may mga binati na itlog. Pagkatapos, takpan ito ng breadcrumbs. Ulitin hanggang lahat ng mga tinapay ay natakpan na.
6. Sa kawali na nasa katamtamang init, uminit ng mantika hanggang mag bula ito. Iprito ang mga ‘sandwiches’ hanggang mag kayumanggi ang bawat gilid. Ihanda habang mainit pa.