Tuna sandwich dome, a tasty, simple, quick, and economical appetizer for the holidays, but I assure you, also very good. Surely you have prepared or eaten tuna sandwiches; the idea started right there, from the classic tuna sandwiches, I always prepare them in abundance, especially during the summer, I bring them as a snack to enjoy at the beach. So I thought for the holidays to propose again a great classic, the dome, but not in a sweet version, rather savory. A sandwich bread dome filled with delicious tuna cream, and I also used tomatoes and lettuce to recall the Christmas colors, but also because they go very well with tuna cream. I’m sure you will love this recipe, and your guests will especially love it, I make a different one every year for the holidays, and every year it’s a great success. So I leave you with the recipe for my savory tuna dome for Christmas.

You can find this recipe in the Christmas appetizers collection and Christmas sandwich appetizers

Here are other typical Christmas recipes from the Calabrian tradition

Difficulty: Very easy
Cost: Economical
Preparation time: 15 Minutes
Portions: 10
Cooking methods: Boiling
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: All seasons, Christmas

Ingredients for the Tuna Sandwich Dome

5 slices sandwich bread
3 eggs
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
4.2 oz tuna in olive oil
as needed lettuce
as needed cherry tomatoes
2 salad tomatoes

Tools for Tuna Sandwich Dome

1 Small pot
1 Small bowl
1 Bowl
2 Molds star-shaped
1 Cutting board
1 Knife
1 Plastic wrap

Steps for Preparing Tuna Sandwich Dome

Prepare 3 boiled eggs according to the basic recipe. Cook them for 6 minutes from boiling. Then drain, run under cold water, and peel while still warm.
Prepare the tuna cream. In a small but not too small bowl, place the eggs and mash them as finely as possible with a fork.
Tuna cream
Also add the tuna, without draining it. Mix again to obtain a cream as homogeneous as possible.
Finally add the mayonnaise, and mix again. On these occasions, I obviously make my delicious and foolproof homemade mayonnaise ready in less than 1 minute.
Wash some lettuce and a few cherry tomatoes and a couple of tomatoes.
Start preparing the dome. Line a medium-sized bowl with plastic wrap.
Cover the bowl with sandwich bread. Then start filling with the tuna cream, spreading it over the entire base and also on the edges, add slices of thinly sliced tomato. Cover with more bread and fill again as before, alternating lettuce leaves, torn or chopped, with the tomatoes. Continue layering until the bowl is filled, and finally close with bread. Seal with the plastic wrap and press well, let it rest in the fridge for at least an hour.
With the leftovers, make decorations. I made tuna sandwich stars with lettuce and cherry tomatoes cut in half. Just cut out stars with a cookie cutter, fill half the stars with tuna cream, then close with other stars, but I removed the central part with a smaller star cookie cutter, and there I decorated with lettuce and cherry tomato. I also used the small stars as decoration.
Remove the dome from the bowl, using the plastic wrap to easily extract it, and turn it over onto a serving plate.
Decorate as seen in the photo, attaching the stars with a toothpick, or tuna cream where they are lighter and can hold with just the cream. Of course, you can also simply decorate with more tuna cream and maybe cherry tomatoes.
Keep in the fridge until ready to serve our savory dome with tuna cream.