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Tomato Tuna Balls
Makes12 tuna balls
Prep Time15 min
Cook Time
25 min
Time to Table40 min
These baked bite-sized appetizers are a great snack for kids and you!
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Ingredients
2 can (85 g each) Clover Leaf® Flaked Light Tuna Tomato & Onion
½ cup Cooked mashed potato
½ cup Cooked sweet potato
⅓ cup Frozen green peas
1 Egg
¾ cup Kamut flakes or panko bread crumbs
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PREP INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Mix flavoured tuna, potato, sweet potato, green peas and egg together – set aside.
- Pour panko bread crumbs onto a plate. Shape the mixture into a ball and roll into panko bread crumbs.
- Neatly line up the tuna balls onto a greased or parchment-paper-lined baking tray. Bake for 15-18 minutes (Kamut flakes) or 22-25 minutes (panko bread crumbs) until golden brown.
Nutrition Tidbit:
“Clover Leaf ® flavoured tuna is not only high in protein, but also low in saturated fat and free of trans fat. Combined with other ingredients in the Tomato Ball recipe, it creates a great balance of carbohydrates, vegetables and protein.”
– Registered Dietitian Sosan Hua
nutrition
| Amount per serving |
% Daily Value |
|
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 60 | |
| Fat | 1 g | 1% |
| Saturated Fat | 0.3 g | |
| Trans | 0 g | |
| Saturated + Trans | 2% | |
| Carbohydrate | 8 g | |
| Fibre | 1 g | 4% |
| Sugars | 1 g | 1% |
| Protein | 4 g | |
| Cholesterol | 20 mg | |
| Sodium | 115 mg | 5% |
| Potassium | 75 mg | 2% |
| Calcium | 10 mg | 1% |
| Iron | 0.75 mg | 4% |
