This recipe for cold tuna cake with Bimbo bread or sliced bread is a great dish to prepare in summer. It is ideal for a dinner or as a starter or aperitif at a celebration, so it will make you look great! In addition, it is a very simple dish that can get you out of trouble, since it is prepared quickly in a moment.
You can make it with the ingredients that we suggest in this recipe, but you can also prepare it as varied as you want and add ingredients that you have at home. You will see that no matter what you put on it, you will be right, so continue reading and discover how to make cold tuna cake.
Ingredients to make Cold Tuna Cake:
• 1 package of sliced bread
• 3 cans of tuna in oil
• 1 lettuce
• 1 onion
• 1 package of surimi sticks
• 1 jar of stuffed olives
• 1 package of cherry tomatoes
• 1 jar of mayonnaise
• 1 jar of red peppers
How to make Cold Tuna Cake:
To start with this cold tuna and surimi cake, wash the lettuce leaves and leave them in water for a while. Drain them and cut them into very small pieces. Peel the onion and chop it into small pieces. Go putting everything in a bowl.
Chop the surimi sticks and some stuffed olives into small pieces. Add everything to the bowl with the other ingredients. Open the cans of tuna, drain the oil and add it to the bowl.
Mix all the ingredients well. Add a few tablespoons of mayonnaise, it can be homemade or bought, although with the heat the jar is better. Mix, the amount will be to your liking.
In a bowl or plate put a long slice of bread, or several if they are small. Put a layer of the tuna filling that you have prepared, make sure that the layer is not too thin and that it reaches the edges well.
Do the same with 2-3 layers, the last one will be a layer of sliced bread. If it will take a few hours to serve your cold tuna cake, put it in the fridge covered with plastic wrap or foil (aluminum). This way it will be cold and delicious! Cover the entire cold tuna cake with the mayonnaise sauce, it must be covered on all sides. Decorate it to make it look good. In our case, we put olives, bell pepper, some tomatoes and shredded crab sticks, but you can add other ingredients that you like. It can also be accompanied by lettuce around it. It will be ready to serve!
Cold tuna cake – Suggestions and other recipes
If you want to prepare this cold tuna cake with crab sticks for a special celebration, you can make it ahead of time and keep it in the fridge. We assure you that everyone will like it, since the sliced bread is very tender and, with the mayonnaise, your cake will be super juicy.
The sliced bread that we put is elongated, but if you can’t find it you can also make it with the slices of normal sliced bread and put them next to each other to give the illusion that it is bigger.