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Home > Pasta > Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake

Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake

Published February 26, 2016, Updated May 22, 2018 By Nicky Corbishley 44 Comments

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Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake - a classic meal that everyone loves - with mostly store-cupboard ingredients!

Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake – a classic meal that everyone loves – made with mostly store-cupboard ingredients!Side shot of a Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake in a glass dish on a blue and white striped cloth with plates and forks in the background

There’s something about a pasta bake that just seems to make everyone so happy. Possibly the implied promise of a luxuriously filling meal, topped with cheese and oozing with some kind of sauce.

Let’s take a closer look at a couple of scenarios:

Scenario 1

My kids:
‘What’re we having for dinner mummy?’
Me:
‘Baked cod’ / ‘ceasar salad’ / ‘parmesan & asparagus risotto’
Kids:
‘Blurgh! do we get pudding if we eat it?’

Scenario 2

Kids:
‘What’re we having for dinner mummy?’
Me:
‘Creamy Tuna pasta bake’ / ‘Chicken pasta bake’ / ‘Tomato and bacon pasta bake’
Kids:
‘Yesssss!’ (with added fist pump)

No requests for pudding as a reward for eating it. Dinner is a reward in itself. They’ll even eat the salad that goes with it – no cajoling necessary.

Overhead shot of a Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake in a glass dish on a red and white striped cloth with plates and forks in the background

This creamy tuna pasta bake is a store cupboard saviour. Pasta, sweetcorn, tuna fish – all make up the bulk of the meal. Frozen peas are a great addition too – but you can use canned or fresh if you like.

Apart from that, we’re really just talking milk, cheese and a bit of butter from the fridge.

Close up shot of a Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake in a glass dish on a red and white striped cloth

I serve it with a big plate of salad leaves (usually romaine and pea shoots or spinach) to add some fresh crunchiness.

If you can get hold of albacore tuna, it’s definitely worth paying a bit more for it. We don’t see it very much in the UK (in fact I’d never had it until we went to the US a couple of years ago and I had the best tuna-cheese toasty I’ve ever experienced!). If you’re in the UK, they sell it in tins in Sainsburys.

Don’t worry if you can’t get hold of it though, any regular good-quality tinned tuna will do.

If Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake is not your thing and you are after some other one pot or pasta bakes why not try one of these;

Big Batch Beef Ragu with pasta

Or

Cheesy Pasta Bake with Chicken and Bacon

The Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake Recipe:

Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake

Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake - a classic meal that everyone loves - made with mostly store-cupboard ingredients!
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Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 55 mins
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: British, Italian
Keyword: Any Time Of the year, Family Meal, homemade
Servings: 6 servings
Author: Nicky Corbishley

Ingredients

  • 400 g rigatoni pasta
  • 3 tbsp butter
  • 1 onion peeled and chopped finely
  • 50 g plain/all purpose flour
  • 600 ml milk
  • 250 g strong cheddar, grated
  • Salt and pepper
  • 320 g canned tuna (albacore tuna if possible) drained and flaked
  • 330 g canned sweetcorn drained
  • 150 g frozen petit pois
  • large handful chopped parsley
UK (metric) - **Convert to US Measures**

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 180C/350f.
  • Boil a large pan of water, add the pasta and cook for 10 minutes.
  • Whilst the pasta is cooking, melt the butter in a saucepan, add in the onion and cook on low for 6-8 minutes until the onions are very soft. Turn up the heat to medium and stir in the flour. Cook for 1-2 minutes. Slowly add the milk, using a whisk to stir (just stir, don’t whisk) it in. Once all the milk is incorporated, continue to heat whilst stirring until the sauce thickens. Then stir in 2/3 of the cheese until melted. Season with black pepper and a little salt if required (the cheese is quite salty though).
  • Drain the pasta and pour into a 20x30cm baking dish. Pour over the white sauce, then add the tuna, sweetcorn, petit pois and all but 1 tbsp of parsley. Mix together, then sprinkle on the remaining cheese.
  • Bake in the oven for 15-20 mins until the cheese is golden brown. Top with the reserved parsley before serving.

Recipe Notes

Nutrition info is for one serving of this recipe.

Nutritional Information

Nutrition Facts
Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake
Amount Per Serving
Calories 690 Calories from Fat 252
% Daily Value*
Fat 28g43%
Saturated Fat 15g75%
Cholesterol 78mg26%
Sodium 547mg23%
Potassium 528mg15%
Carbohydrates 66g22%
Fiber 3g12%
Sugar 9g10%
Protein 40g80%
Vitamin A 990IU20%
Vitamin C 11.4mg14%
Calcium 447mg45%
Iron 2.7mg15%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Equipment:

In order to make this Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake you will need:

    • A good Kitchen knife. I have recently bought this Dalstrong one and love it.
    • Chopping Board
    • Rectangular Pyrex Dish
    • A Silicone Whisk
    • Measuring Jug
    • Large Pan
    • Colander
    • Cheese Grater
    • A frying pan/skillet
    • Wooden or Silicon Coated Spoons.  We have just bought these and love them.

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Filed Under: Dinner, Fish, Pasta

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  1. Jess says

    November 12, 2019 at 9:12 am

    Cooked this as surprise for my partner, it’s quite simple and as long as you stay in the kitchen you can get away with not following recipe steps with too much precision. We added a quarter can of mackerel (in natural oil), labour 3/4 an onion, 125 g of corn kernels and 125 of creamed corn (on hand), more peas and a stable spoon extra of butter.

    But I think this recipe is quite unforgiving and will definitely try the written recipe when I have more energy, as I suffer from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

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