Recipe: Perfect Tuna Melt Dip

Tuna Melt Dip.

You can have Tuna Melt Dip using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tuna Melt Dip

1. You need of TUNA.
2. Prepare 2 of 6 ounce cans albacore tuna packed in water, drained.
3. You need 1 of small shallot, finely chopped.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of celery, finely chopped.
5. It's 1/4 cup of Spicy Ranch Dressing , recipe for mine attached in direction step #2.
6. You need 1 tsp of fresh lemon juice.
7. You need 1 tsp of chopped fresh chives.
8. It's 1 tsp of chopped fresh parsley.
9. You need 1/4 tsp of black pepper and salt to taste.
10. You need 2 tbsp of garlic and herb flavored cream cheese, at room temperature.
11. You need 1 cup of Italian four cheese blend, divided use.
12. Prepare 1/4 cup of buffalo flavored cheese, shredded or pepper jack if you can't find buffalo flavored.
13. Prepare 3 of strip of bacon, precooked until slightly crisp.
14. Prepare 1/4 cup of chopped fresh tomatos.
15. It's of DIPPING IDEAS.
16. Prepare of celery sticks.
17. Prepare of carrot sticks.
18. It's of crisp lettece cups.
19. It's of fresh button mushrooms.
20. You need of crackers.
21. You need of French rolls, halved or split.

Tuna Melt Dip instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400. Spray a baking dish big enough to hold tuna mixture in with room to allow for bubbling..
2. Combine tuna, celery, shallot, spicy ranch dressing (recipe attached below), lemon, chives, parsley, pepper and 1/2 cup of the Italian cheese and the cream cheese. Mix well https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/353091-spicy-ranch-dipdressing.
3. Place mixture in prepared baking dish.top with remaing italian cheese blend, and buffalo flavored cheese. Add bacon, cut up on top of chesses. Bake until bubbling, and cheese is melted, about 15 to 20 minutes. Add chopped tomatos to top before serving.
4. Serve with your choice of dipping ideas. Have a spoon for filling lettece cups and rolls.