British
Tuna pasta bake
Pasta, tinned tuna and sweetcorn in a cheese sauce, baked until golden.
- Serves 4
- Prep 10 min
- Cook 35 min
- Total 45 min
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Ingredients
9 items · serves 4- 350 g penne pasta
- 2 x 145 g tins tuna in spring water, drained
- 198 g tin sweetcorn, drained
- 40 g butter
- 40 g plain flour
- 600 ml semi-skimmed milk
- 150 g cheddar cheese, grated
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Contains: fish, milk, wheat. Check product labels: brands differ.
Steps
5 steps- 1Heat the oven to 200 C (180 C fan). Cook the pasta in salted boiling water for two minutes less than the packet says, then drain.
- 2Melt the butter in a pan, stir in the flour and cook for a minute.
- 3Gradually whisk in the milk and stir until thick and smooth, then take off the heat and stir in two thirds of the cheese. Season.
- 4Mix the pasta, tuna and sweetcorn into the sauce and tip into an ovenproof dish.
- 5Scatter over the rest of the cheese and bake for twenty minutes until golden and bubbling.