# Ottolenghi Fricassee-Inspired Tuna Melt

This recipe is a Tunisian tuna Fricassee that meets the tuna melt, with melted cheese, double carbs, tuna mayo and harissa tapenade, making it the ultimate toasted sandwich.

- Servings: 2 servings
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 200 g jarred (or tinned) tuna in olive oil
- 100 g mayonnaise
- 0.5 red onion red onion
- 0.25 teaspoon fine sea salt
- black pepper
- 150 g pitted black olives
- 2 cloves garlic cloves
- 1.5 tablespoons red harissa paste
- 1.5 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons reserved olive oil from the drained tuna
- 0.5 teaspoon maple syrup (or runny honey)
- 100 ml olive oil for the potatoes
- 1 potato potato
- 4 slices large slices sourdough
- 200 g grated mozzarella, or low-moisture mozzarella
- 20 g parsley leaves

## Instructions

1. Start by slicing the potatoes into thin, half-moon shapes.
2. Pour olive oil into a frying pan and add the sliced potatoes.
3. Prepare the tuna mix by flaking tuna, adding mayonnaise and finely diced red onion.
4. Dice the red onion finely and add it to the tuna and mayonnaise mixture.
5. Combine black and green olives, garlic, lemon juice, maple syrup, harissa, and the reserved tuna oil in a food processor.
6. Blend the tapenade ingredients until it forms a chunky paste.
7. Check the fried potatoes; they should be golden brown and crispy, with different textures.
8. Remove the potatoes from the pan, trying to leave some olive oil in the pan for frying the sandwich.
9. Sprinkle salt over the fried potatoes.
10. Spread tapenade on two slices of sourdough bread.
11. Add grated mozzarella on top of the tapenade on both bread slices.
12. Add the tuna mixture to one of the bread slices.
13. Place the fried potatoes on top of the tuna mixture.
14. Add parsley leaves on top of the potatoes.
15. Close the sandwich with the other slice of bread.
16. Fry the sandwich in the pan until golden and toasted on both sides, and the cheese is melted.
17. Cut the sandwich in half.
18. Serve the sandwich immediately.

## Equipment

- knife
- frying pan
- spoon
- food processor
- slotted spoon
- plate
- kitchen paper
- rack

## Tips

- Use crisps inside if you want to speed up the sandwich.
- Save the oil from the tuna to use in the tapenade.
- When frying potatoes, try to leave olive oil in the pan to fry the sandwich.
- For the tapenade, use Lamiri harissa for smokiness, otherwise any other harissa or rose harissa will work too.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6kxWrLP/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/fc0fc8a3-5a37-49ba-a8b2-1197ed134e66
- Extracted: 2025-07-27

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