Grammy Linda's Tuna Melt

Total Time: 18 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 4 potato buns (like martin's potato sandwich rolls) or 4 hamburger buns or 4 english muffins
• 2 (6 ounce) cans solid tuna packed in water
• 3/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 stalk celery, chopped (11 inches long )
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• salt & pepper, to taste
• 2 tomatoes, sliced horizontally
• 8 slices american cheese

Recipe

• 1 split rolls in half horizontally; and brown under broiler or on skillet. place rolls cut side up on a cookie sheet pan and set aside.
• 2 mix the 5 tuna salad ingredients. refrigerate until ready to make the sandwiches.
• 3 horizontally slice tomatoes of choice.
• 4 divide tuna salad into 8 portionsl and place each portion atop a browned roll half.
• 5 top each with i-2 slices tomato.
• 6 top each with a slice of cheese.
• 7 turn on your oven broiler and place pan of sandwiches 4 inches below broiling element. watch carefully and remove when cheese melts to your satisfaction. ( i do not care for charred or brown cheese; so i remove as soon as cheese drapes over the tomatoes.) serve immediately. yum!
• 8 tip: for a large group, the sandwiches may be compiled several hours before needed and broiled right before serving. enjoy -- .