you make a last minute decision for dinner and you have ALL the ingredients! Yes! The planets must be in alignment, I mean it's lucky to have the main ingredients in a recipe, or even most of the ingredients, but all of the ingredients? Then, even though you haven't made it before, it turns out great and is super yummy! Air five!
This recipe isn't super complicated but just home cooked enough and healthy enough too. In my quest to cook (I don't count our weekly sandwiches, frozen pizza, and nuggets as cooking) three meals a week, it was a keeper. Thank you Betty Crocker :-)
The best part of this recipe is inspiration for other recipes: steamed veggies with just the cheese sauce, omit the tuna and veggies for homemade mac n cheese, switch the tuna for chicken, omit meat and just do veggies, I mean the possibilities are............at least half a dozen!
Tuna Casserole
1 1/4 cup cooked pasta (suggested is elbows or shells, I used rotini/spirals)
1 cup frozen peas or 2 cups cooked broccoli (you could really do whatever veggie/amount you want here)
2 cans tuna (or salmon or chicken)
2 cups milk
2 tbsp plus 1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup shredded cheese
2/3 cup bread crumbs/corn flakes/crushed cereal, etc.....they even suggest cheerios.....interesting
First preheat oven to 350 degrees. In saucepan over medium heat melt 2 tbsp butter. Then add flour and salt and stir constantly until smooth and bubbly. Turn off heat and gradually add/stir in milk. Turn heat back on and stir frequently to boiling. Boil one minute then stir in cheese. In ungreased casserole mix pasta, veggies, tuna, and sauce. Bake covered for 25 minutes. While cooking melt 1 tbsp butter and mix with crumbs. Sprinkle on casserole and cook for 5 more minutes (30 total).
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We eat this at least twice a month. I omit the topping and just toast some bread now.
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