Name: The Tuna Melt
Yield: Makes 2 sandwiches
Ingredients: freshly ground black pepper; one 5 oz [140 g] can tuna in olive oil, drained; 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 2 tbsp butter; kosher salt (optional); 4 slices marble rye; 4 thin slices sharp yellow cheddar cheese; 1 green onion (white and green parts), minced; 1 celery stalk, minced; 1 tbsp pickled shallots

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Makes
2
sandwiches

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Tin to Table

By Anna Hezel

Published 2023

About

A few years ago, joined by a small group of fellow tinned fish enthusiasts, I went on a tuna melt crawl through Lower Manhattan. (It sounds crazy, I know.) We started at Kossar’s for a petite, round bialy melt, and then made our way to Odessa, B&H Dairy, and Eisenberg’s. And though it’s counterintuitive, with each tuna melt I consumed, I grew more and more hungry for the next one.

To me, the tuna melt is one of the most perfect sandwiches in existence—simple enough that you coul

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