Healthy Tuna Melt Quesadillas

These healthy tuna melt quesadillas are cheesy, lightly crispy, filling, and a delicious easy meal ready in less than 15 minutes!

Course Dinner, Lunch

Cuisine American, Mexican

Keyword healthy tuna melt, tuna melt quesadilla

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 5

Total Time 10

Servings quesadillas

Calories 469kcal

Author Kelli Shallal MPH RD

Ingredients

2 cans tuna drained
2 pickles diced
1 cup celery chopped
1 avocado
2 tablespoons mustard
⅛ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon black pepper
⅛ teaspoon garlic powder
⅛ teaspoon onion powder
mayo as desired
3 whole-grain tortillas (10-inch) I used brown rice
3 slices sharp cheddar cheese

Instructions

Mash avocado and then mix in remaining ingredients (tuna, pickle, celery, seasonings, mustard, mayo as needed.)
Place tortilla on a nonstick skillet (sprayed with cooking spray) and ⅓ of tuna mixture to tortilla and top with cheese (spread out evenly accross tuna mixture.)
Fold tortilla over on itself and cook on medium for 3-5 minutes on each side (or until each side is crispy and cheese is melted in the middle.)
Repeat with remaining tortillas and tuna mixture.

Notes

Since I eat canned tuna pretty frequently, and I always get questions about tuna and mercury, I'll just say that I tend to buy skipjack tuna since it's the lowest mercury of type of tuna (solid white albacore being the highest.) Plus, it's a cheaper variety to buy wild-caught than solid white albacore. I hope that helps!

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