Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, tuna pasta bake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake - a classic meal that everyone loves - made with mostly store-cupboard ingredients! There's something about a pasta bake that just seems to make everyone so happy. Confession: I say "Everybody has a can of tuna" but I don't.
Tuna Pasta Bake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Tuna Pasta Bake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tuna pasta bake using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tuna Pasta Bake:
- Make ready 2 chopped onion
- Prepare 2 can chopped tomatoes
- Prepare 1 can sweetcorn
- Get 2 medium carrots
- Get 2 can tuna in water
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garlic powder or on crushed clove.
- Make ready 2 tsp dried basil.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp suger. to taste
- Take 400 grams dried pasta. macaroni or penn or twills. for this one I used cavatappi
An easy tuna pasta bake recipe that's a proper family favourite. With melted Cheddar cheese on top, it'll guarantee clean plates all round! Most of you might think you know how to make a tuna pasta bake, but to make a GOOD one, it's more than just bunging all. The tuna pasta bake (commonly called "tuna noodle casserole" in the United States) is a classic comfort food.
Steps to make Tuna Pasta Bake:
- Cook pasta in lots of water. Leave pasta al denta. Drain rince and cool.
- Fry chopped onion in a little oil. Leave firm to bite.
- Add 2 tins of chopped tomatoes to onions and simmer.
- Add garlic powder, basil, suger and salt / pepper to mix, simmer for 5 mins on low heat. Taste and season to taste.
- Put tin of sweetcorn and 2 tins of tuna in large mixing bowl.
- After tomato mix has simmered add to mixing bowl and mix together. Leave to stand for 15 mins+
- Add cooked carrots to mix.
- After pasta has drained add to bowl mix together. Leave for at least 3 hours for pasta to soak up juices.
- If pasta has soaked up all the juices and the mix is stiff and dry add passata or more tomatos to loosen. Remember you are going to bake it later.
- Put mix into oven dish or dishes fill to just below the top.
- Grate cheese on top to cover and bake untill cheese golden brown on 200 c Serve with green salad and garlic bread or chill and freeze. Keeps well in fridge or freezer. Microwave to reheat.
- This is the basic recipe but there are lots of variations such as cream cheese stirred into mix before cheese top go's on. Also replace tuna with cooked bacon and fresh cherry tomatoes, and or chicken. Also mix bread crumbs with cheese for crunchy top or cheese and onion crisps crumbled on top and then cheese. You can add peppers to mix and or peas and herbs and spices to your taste. Also my favorite is a layer of cheese sauce on top and then grated cheese. Cheap nutritional and taste great.
Preparing this recipe from scratch takes a bit of time, but if you're in a rush, there's also. Tuna pasta bake is a classic family recipe. Tuna Bake without Pasta - In place of pasta, you could use boiled and cubed potatoes for a different Tuna recipe. Cook the pasta in a saucepan of plenty of boiling. Creamy tuna pasta bake is the perfect weeknight dinner.
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