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Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce is something that I have loved my entire life.
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 particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
- Get 2-4 tuna steaks
- Make ready 250 g pappardelle (or tagliatelle) pasta
- Take 200 ml cooking cream
- Prepare 1/4 cup pine nuts, plus some extra for serving
- Take 1 cup fresh basil
- Prepare 3 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 cup parmesan cheese (finely grated)
- Get 3 garlic cloves
- Make ready Juice of 1 lime
- Prepare 1 tbsp cornflour (for thickening the sauce)
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
Tuna is a firm meaty fish so can stand up to intense direct To prepare your tuna steak, put on a plate and brush each side with oil. Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Stir in basil pesto to coat. Drain pasta and place back in sauce pan.
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.
Mix in vegetable and tuna mixture. Serve with grated parmesan cheese on the side. 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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