Creamed Tuna Or Chicken With Peas

Total Time: 14 mins Preparation Time: 2 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 4 (6 ounce) cans tuna in water or 1 cup cooked chicken
• 4 cups chicken stock (i suggest crock pot chicken stock )
• 1/8 teaspoon celery seed
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme
• 1 cup milk
• 4 -5 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 1/2 cups frozen peas
• 1 tablespoon sherry wine (optional)
• 1/4 cup chopped mushroom (optional)
• salt
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 drain tuna or chop chicken finely.
• 2 bring chicken stock (and optional mushrooms if desired), to a boil. add celery seed and thyme.
• 3 use a fork or a whisk to combine cornstarch with cold milk. adjust amount according to whether you want a thicker or thinner sauce. add to boiling stock, reduce heat, and stir until the sauce simmers gently.
• 4 add tuna/chicken, peas, and sherry.
• 5 heat through and season to taste with salt and fresh-ground black pepper.
• 6 remove from heat. let sit, keeping warm, for 5 minutes to blend flavors.
• 7 serve over the starch of your choice -- rice, toast points, noodles, cornbread (i suggest recipe basic, frugal cornbread ), biscuits, etc.
• 8 note -- if you have no homemade chicken stock i suggest using a good soup base (tones brand is available in sam's club). both bullion cubes and canned chicken broth are inferior substitutes for real stock and a dish this simple depends on the quality of the ingredients for good flavor.
• 9 tip -- if you enjoy tuna casserole but have give it up because of the salt in the mushroom soup try using a suitable quantity of this recipe (with or without the peas), as a substitute for the diluted soup.