Tip-top tuna tarts

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Tuna is a versatile fish that you can enjoy in everything from sandwiches to pasta dishes. But in this recipe for 6-7-year-olds it is being used for bite-size tarts. While adult supervision is required for some parts of the recipe, kids will still get lots of experience shaping and moulding the bread, and cutting it out into perfect circles ready to be baked in the oven. Mixing all of the ingredients together will keep them busy while the tart base is baking.

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The cooking skills and recipes have been developed in collaboration with the British Nutritional Foundation.

Tip-top tuna tarts

Equipment

  • Chopping board

  • Cutter

  • Patty tin

  • Oven gloves

  • Mixing bowl

  • Kitchen scissors

  • Measuring spoons

  • Spoon

  • Serving plate

Method

  • Step 1

    Preheat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas mark 6. ADULT ONLY.

  • Step 2

    Place the bread on the chopping board.

  • Step 3

    Cut out 2 circles from each slice of bread using the cutter.

  • Step 4

    Press the circles in the patty tin.

  • Step 5

    Put the patty tin in the oven for 8-10 minutes. ADULT ONLY.

  • Step 6

    While the bread is in the oven, tip the tuna into the mixing bowl.

  • Step 7

    Snip the spring onion on to the tuna. ADULT SUPERVISION.

  • Step 8

    Add the sweetcorn.

  • Step 9

    Add the mayonnaise.

  • Step 10

    Stir together the ingredients and put the bowl to one side.

  • Step 11

    Remove the patty tin from the oven. ADULT ONLY.

  • Step 12

    Allow to cool slightly, scoop out the bread cases with a spoon and put them on the plate.

  • Step 13

    Spoon the tuna mixture equally into each bread tart.

Ingredients

Makes:
6
3 thick slices
bread
1 x 100g can
tuna fish in spring water, drained
1
spring onion
1 x 15ml spoon
canned sweetcorn
1 x 15ml spoon
low-fat mayonnaise

Top tip(s)

Serve as a snack or with different salads to make a tasty lunch.

Try adding grated cucumber.

Swap the tuna and chives for canned salmon and dill.

Fill the tarts with hummus or a cheese-and-chive mixture instead of tuna.

Feed left over bread to birds or ducks.

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