Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tuna & leek pasta bake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have tuna & leek pasta bake using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Tuna & Leek Pasta Bake:

1. Make ready pasta shapes, eg fusilli
2. Get rapeseed oil
3. Prepare leeks, sliced
4. Get chillies, red or green, chopped with seeds
5. Take garlic, chopped
6. Prepare butter
7. Get plain flour
8. Get milk
9. Take Dijon mustard
10. Make ready cheddar cheese, grated
11. Make ready Salt
12. Take Ground black pepper
13. Make ready x 180g tins tuna in spring water, drained
14. Make ready frozen peas, defrosted
15. Prepare capers
16. Prepare parsley, chopped

Steps to make Tuna & Leek Pasta Bake:

1. Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 4 or electric equivalent, probably 200C or 180C fan. 160C on Circotherm.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Melt the butter in a saucepan on a moderate heat, then slowly stir in the flour. Cook for 1 minute, stirring gently.
5. Gradually but not too cautiously stir in the milk and continue cooking until you have a thick white sauce. Remove from heat.
6. Stir in the mustard and 200-225 g of the cheese. Taste and season as required.
7. 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.
8. Transfer everything to a lasagne or similar dish and sprinkle on the remaining grated cheese, to cover evenly.
9. 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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