Burgers are awesome. Alex, Soph and I are burger people…well mostly Alex and me, but Soph does eat burgers most of the time. We like Hamburgers, Turkey Burgers and our featured burger of this week, Tuna Burgers. Not only are they high in protein and low in fat, they’re a great meal to make as a family…throw the ingredients into a bowl, squish together (kids love squishing things!)…form patties, fry ‘em up and all you’ve got left is to eat!

We hope you enjoy this re-share of our Tuna Burger episode for ‘The Kids Cook Monday.’

Happy Family Cooking Everyone!

Alex, Sophia and Kelly

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You may have seen this episode just a couple of weeks ago, but we thought it was worth a re-share for The Kids Cook Monday. This recipe is great to make with the whole family, getting all messy with some hands-on burger making. Tuna is also a lighter alternative to the standard, and here at the Two Kids house, Alex and Soph actually prefer them to hamburgers.

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 recommend a little mayo too

Now go, get in the kitchen and have some fun cooking together!

Mom, Alex and Sophia

Fish of any kind is always popular at the 2 Kids house, and tuna is one of our favorites–fresh or canned, baked or fried, Alex, Soph and I all love it. In the summer during prime grilling weather, we like to expand our burger palette by throwing some tuna burgers in the mix. They’re also easy to make on the stove, as we demonstrate in this week’s episode–and, they are perfect for making with the kids!

Enjoy the show, and if you want to try our burger recipe, check out our recipe of the week.

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

Watch Alex, Soph and Mom demonstrate the recipe on Two Kids Cooking TV!

Enjoy!

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