Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tuna mac-and-cheese. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This easy casserole recipe uses mac-n-cheese from a box with a can of tuna, mushrooms, and bread crumbs as a topping. Stir cheese sauce mixture from the packet, margarine, and. Prepare macaroni and cheese according to package directions.
Tuna Mac-and-Cheese is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Tuna Mac-and-Cheese is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tuna mac-and-cheese using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tuna Mac-and-Cheese:
- Get 2 cups whole wheat egg noodles
- Take 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Prepare 1/4 yellow onion, finely diced
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 2 tbsp. all purpose flour
- Get 3/4 cup unsalted chicken broth
- Take 3/4 cup milk
- Get 1/4 tsp. each salt, pepper
- Get 3/4 cup frozen peas
- Get 3/4 cup freshly shredded cheese of choice
- Take 1 can (5 oz.) unsalted, solid albacore tuna, drained
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Steps to make Tuna Mac-and-Cheese:
- Cook the egg noodles in a large pot of salted boiling water according to package directions. Once it's done, drain it and toss it lightly with olive oil to prevent it from sticking. Set it aside. In the same pot, heat the butter over medium heat. Once it's melted, add the onion and cook until it's translucent, just about 3-4 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook just until fragrant.
- Stir in the flour and cook, stirring fairly constantly for a couple more minutes. Then slowly add in the broth and the milk while stirring to fully incorporate everything smoothly. Increase the heat to med-high. Let it come up to a low boil.
- Once it's bubbling, lower the heat back down and let it simmer until it's thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon. Then stir in the salt, pepper and peas. Slightly break up the tuna with a fork into large chunks and stir that in as well. Remove from the heat and stir in the cheese until it's melted in, then serve.
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