Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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I surprised my family with this tasty Tuna Pesto Pasta and it really made them happy. To create your own pesto sauce, you may use fresh basil leaves, garlic. This Pesto Tuna Pasta 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.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce:
- Take 2-4 tuna steaks
- Prepare 250 g pappardelle (or tagliatelle) pasta
- Prepare 200 ml cooking cream
- Get 1/4 cup pine nuts, plus some extra for serving
- Take 1 cup fresh basil
- Make ready 3 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 cup parmesan cheese (finely grated)
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves
- Prepare Juice of 1 lime
- Prepare 1 tbsp cornflour (for thickening the sauce)
- Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
Pasta SauceMadeleine Cocina. tomato sauce, ground black pepper, water, sugar, salt. Reviews for: Photos of Pasta With Tuna Sauce. Drain pasta and place in a serving bowl. Pour pesto cream over the top.
Steps to make Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce:
- 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.
- 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).
- Next boil water with salt and add the pasta. Cook for around 4 minutes.
- Heat the rest of the oil in a frying pan on a high heat.
- Season the tunas steaks with pepper on both sides.
- Once the pan is hot add the steaks and turn the heat down to a medium temperature.
- 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.
- Now roast the extra pine nuts in the pan for a couple of minutes until browned.
- Serve the steaks over the pasta and heated sauce. Sprinkle the pine nuts on top and garnish with fresh basil.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Drain pasta and place in a serving bowl. Pour pesto cream over the top. Add diced tomatoes and toss quickly. The tomatoes will be warmed by the hot pasta noodles and the cream sauce, and they'll keep their shape because they're not getting cooked to. Tuna Pesto Pasta: A sophisticated pantry pasta is quick and easy with canned tuna and a few staples like pesto, garlic and onion.
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