Alex loves fish. He would eat it everyday if he could. Actually, the only thing that stops me from feeding it to the kids more than twice a week is the mercury level worry. BUT, sometimes, one of our two fish meals for the week includes Tuna Burgers. Canned tuna really makes delicious burgers and, since Alex isn’t a hamburger eater, when we grill, we do traditional burgers and tuna burgers.

The recipe is pretty simple and it’s funto make with the kids. Squishing ingredients through fingers and forming burgers is just one of those things kids love.

If your family likes tuna, they’ll definitely like this fun variation of a tuna sandwich.

Tuna Burgers:
3, 12oz cans of tuna
2 eggs
3/4 cup of saltine crackers, crumbled
1/2 tsp lemon pepper
salt to taste
butter
hamburger buns

Open your cans of tuna and drain the water off. With your hands, combine the tuna, eggs, saltines, lemon pepper and salt. Once everything is all mixed together, form burgers.

On the stove, heat a frying pan with butter (although these are good on the grill too, just make sure they’re extra moist so they stay together). Once the butter is melted, add your tuna patties and cook one each side until browned.

Place each patty on a bun and serve! We like ‘em with mayonnaise and some of us (that means Mom) like lettuce on ours

Enjoy!

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