Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce
Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

This Pesto Pasta with Tuna is so simple yet so tasty! It is one great way to use canned tuna and turn it into a delectable meal in no time at all. The thicker or larger shapes do better with richer or more robust sauces.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce:
  1. Get 2-4 tuna steaks
  2. Take 250 g pappardelle (or tagliatelle) pasta
  3. Prepare 200 ml cooking cream
  4. Make ready 1/4 cup pine nuts, plus some extra for serving
  5. Prepare 1 cup fresh basil
  6. Prepare 3 tbsp olive oil
  7. Make ready 1 cup parmesan cheese (finely grated)
  8. Make ready 3 garlic cloves
  9. Prepare Juice of 1 lime
  10. Take 1 tbsp cornflour (for thickening the sauce)
  11. Prepare to taste Salt and pepper

With that in mind, I set out to make a really simple creamy pesto sauce. This is the simplest fix ever: just make a simple white sauce (butter, flour, milk) and add in your normal pesto. Reviews for: Photos of Pasta With Tuna Sauce. Drain pasta and place back in sauce pan.

Steps to make Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce:
  1. In a blender add the cooking cream, 2 tbsp of olive oil, pine nuts, basil, parmesan, crushed garlic cloves and lime juice. Blend on a medium speed until smooth.
  2. Heat the sauce in a pan with the cornflour over a medium heat, until slightly thicker. Stir consistently to avoid any lumps forming. (For best results make the night before and store in the fridge).
  3. Next boil water with salt and add the pasta. Cook for around 4 minutes.
  4. Heat the rest of the oil in a frying pan on a high heat.
  5. Season the tunas steaks with pepper on both sides.
  6. Once the pan is hot add the steaks and turn the heat down to a medium temperature.
  7. Cooked the tuna steaks for 1-2 minutes on each side depending on their thickness and how well you would like them cooked. You can watch the sides of the steak turn white to see how far they have cooked. Becareful not to dry the steak out, they can easily become dry.
  8. Now roast the extra pine nuts in the pan for a couple of minutes until browned.
  9. Serve the steaks over the pasta and heated sauce. Sprinkle the pine nuts on top and garnish with fresh basil.
  10. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Mix in vegetable and tuna mixture. Serve with grated cheese on the top. This healthy tuna pasta recipe can be jazzed up or even made more simple than it already is. For the photos I added some grated parmesan cheese and a little lemon You may also like my healthy tuna pasta salad or my creamy tuna pasta salad recipes. Will you give this easy canned tuna pasta a go?

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