Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tuna & leek pasta bake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

Instructions 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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