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Tuna Pasta Bake

Tuna Pasta Bake is a type of Casserole dish which in English often known as the "Bake". A Bake dish often includes meat or tuna, various chopped vegetables, pasta and white sauce to blend everything together and then baked in the oven to get a crispy topping. This recipe is given by Devi Vallima (Devi Shivdas) a very close family friend. I can't thank her enough for sharing this recipe with me. She used to always make it for my cousins and myself whenever we demanded for it. Tuna Pasta Bake was the popular choice. Thank you Vallima :)



Ingredients:
  • 250 gm pasta
  • 250 gm tuna chunks (tinned)
  • 1 cup of chopped vegetables (preferably potato, mushrooms, peas, cauliflower & capsicum)
  • 1 medium onion (chopped)
  • 2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
  • 3 tbsp tomato puree
  • 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
  • bechamel sauce (for recipe, please go to "sauces/chutneys" category in the blog)
  • shredded mozzarella cheese (for topping)
  • tomato sauce (for topping)
  • salt, chilli flakes and oregano for seasoning
Method:
  1. In a saucepan, boil water and cook the pasta as per the packet's instruction. Put the chopped vegetables along with the pasta. Boil it not more than 10-12 min. Strain and keep aside.
  2. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a kadai (I would recommend you use the oil which is in the tinned tuna ). Put the chopped onions and saute till translucent. Then put the ginger-garlic paste in it and stir till the raw smell goes. Then put the tuna chunks and mix well.
  3. Add in the tomato puree, red chilli powder, chilli flakes, oregano and mix well. Taste at this stage and if necessary add the salt accordingly. Stir well for 3 min. Now put the pasta and vegetables to it and mix well with tuna. Switch off the heat.
  4. Now make the Bechamel sauce.
  5. In an oven proof dish, put a layer of tuna-pasta then the Bechamel sauce again with tuna-pasta and end the layer with the Bechamel sauce.
  6. Top the layer with shredded mozzarella and then drizzle some tomato sauce.
  7. Heat the oven to 200 degree Celsius and put the dish inside for 10 minutes or until the cheese has fully melted and turned brown on top. You can put the dish in a microwave too if you don'y have an oven.

PS: Vegetarians can exclude the tuna and can use paneer (Indian Cottage Cheese) instead.

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