Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, tuna & leek pasta bake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Tuna & Leek Pasta Bake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Tuna & Leek Pasta Bake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tuna & leek pasta bake using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tuna & Leek Pasta Bake:
- Get 400 g pasta shapes, eg fusilli
- Prepare 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
- Take 2 leeks, sliced
- Take 2 chillies, red or green, chopped with seeds
- Take 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- Make ready 50 g butter
- Make ready 50 g plain flour
- Prepare 600 ml milk
- Take 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- Get 250 g cheddar cheese, grated
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready Ground black pepper
- Make ready 3 x 180g tins tuna in spring water, drained
- Get 150 g frozen peas, defrosted
- Prepare 1 tbsp capers
- Make ready Handful parsley, chopped
Steps to make Tuna & Leek Pasta Bake:
- Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 4 or electric equivalent, probably 200C or 180C fan. 160C on Circotherm.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and gently sauté the leeks, garlic and chillies, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes until cooked. Then remove from heat and place in a mixing bowl.
- Meanwhile cook the pasta in salted water according to instructions to the al dente point, drain it in a colander and add to the mixing bowl, stirring together with the leek mixture.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan on a moderate heat, then slowly stir in the flour. Cook for 1 minute, stirring gently.
- Gradually but not too cautiously stir in the milk and continue cooking until you have a thick white sauce. Remove from heat.
- Stir in the mustard and 200-225 g of the cheese. Taste and season as required.
- Add the tuna, peas, capers and parsley to the mixing bowl and pour the white sauce on top. Shake or gently stir to mix all the ingredients together.
- Transfer everything to a lasagne or similar dish and sprinkle on the remaining grated cheese, to cover evenly.
- Cook in pre-heated oven until top is golden-brown - 20-30 minutes. Sprinkle on a little more chopped parsley if wished and serve piping hot.
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