Easy Cheesy Baked Tuna Balls
These easy cheesy baked tuna balls are a simple low carb, gluten free snack recipe that rocks!
Easy Cheesy Baked Tuna Balls are an easy, very tasty, low carb, gluten free & grain free snack. Made with tuna, cheeses, spices, and rolled in a low carb breading and baked until crisp.
I was planning on serving these with a dip, but they were just so darn good plain, that my family ate them before I could make a dip. Oh well, next time maybe. They make a perfect snack or appetizer that everyone will love.
Easy Cheesy Baked Tuna Balls Recipe: ( * for printable recipe card, scroll down below)
Ingredients:
Tuna Ball Ingredients:
- 1 (6 to 7) ounce can tuna, drained and broken up with a fork
- 1 egg, beaten
- ¼ cup grated cheddar cheese
- 2 tbsp parmesan cheese
- ½ tsp golden flax meal
- 1 heaping tbsp mayonnaise, like this primal brand
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp onion powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp olive oil or avocado oil (for baking)
Breaded Coating Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp almond flour
- ½ tbsp parmesan cheese
- ⅛ tsp sea salt
- ⅛ tsp black pepper
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400 F, and use the tbsp oil to grease a baking sheet.
- In a large mixing bowl combine all the tuna ball ingredients except for the oil and coating ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
- In a separate medium size mixing bowl combine all the breaded coating ingredients. mix together thoroughly.
- Take a tbsp of tuna mixture and roll into a ball shape with hands.
- Roll tuna ball in the breaded coating mixture to cover and place on oiled baking sheet.
- Once done rolling and coating tuna balls, bake for 14 minutes until lightly browned, turning over halfway through cooking time.
- Remove from oven and serve.
Nutritional Data : Yield: 12 balls, Serving Size: 3 tuna balls, Cal:180, Carbs: 2 g, Net Carbs: 1 g, Fiber: 1 g, Protein:14 g, Fat: 13 g, Sugars: 0 g.
*all nutritional data are estimates based on the products I used*
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- 6 -7 ounce can tuna drained and broken up with a fork,
- 1 egg beaten
- ¼ cup grated cheddar cheese
- 2 tbsp parmesan cheese
- ½ tsp golden flax meal
- 1 tbsp heaping mayonnaise
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp onion powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp olive oil or avocado oil for baking
- Breaded Coating:
- 3 tbsp almond flour
- ½ tbsp parmesan cheese
- ⅛ tsp sea salt
- ⅛ tsp black pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 F, and use the tbsp oil to grease a baking sheet.
- In a large mixing bowl combine all the tuna ball ingredients except for the oil and coating ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
- In a separate medium size mixing bowl combine all the breaded coating ingredients. mix together thoroughly.
- Take a tbsp of tuna mixture and roll into a ball shape with hands.
- Roll tuna ball in the breaded coating mixture to cover and place on oiled baking sheet.
- Once done rolling and coating tuna balls, bake for 14 minutes until lightly browned, turning over halfway through cooking time.
- Remove from oven and serve.
*all nutritional data are estimates based on the products I used*
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Can these Tuna Balls be frozen
Barbara, I have not tried freezing these before, but I would think if you wrap them well, then they could be frozen and reheated in the oven.
I’m totally out of almond flour, but I’ve used sunflower seed flour as a substitute. Just grind some roasted sunflower seeds in a coffee grinder to make your own. Don’t over grind or you’ll have sunflower butter, LOL.
Jan, I make sunflower seed flour too, it is a great nut free option.
Out of flax meal- any subs? Looks so yum!!
Petra, you could use ground chicharones (pork rinds), or low carb bread crumbs.
I’m lovin’ these! !! So easy to make and everyone wants the recipe. Thanks Stacy!
Thank you so much Marsha for trying the recipe and your kind words 🙂 Glad it was a hit.
I have all of these ingredients YAY me!! I love crab meat and salmon…I bet I could make these with those two meats also…like a rolled up crab or salmon patty…YUM! Thank you again and again for sharing your skills. It is to hot to turn on the oven, but I plan on doing these in my toaster oven
Dana, that is awesome. It is colder here, but I’m not complaining, as I can’t handle extreme heat. Toaster oven is a good idea. Is it a convection one?
Whiten awesome way to eat tuna! These would be a great sub for meatballs with my zoodles 🙂
Thank you Rachel, that is a genius idea! It would be like a tuna meatball noodle casserole 😉