Tuna Casserole IV
This comes from a good friend in Thailand and is highly recommended. I like the use of the cheese pasta sauce. I made this on 27 June 2018, outstanding! Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 3-4 cups bow tie pasta, or any bite size pasta
- 2-3 cans tuna, drained, or 1 - 1 1/2 cups fresh cooked
- 1/2 can corn nibblets, or 3/4 cup fresh cooked
- 1 jar Artisan 3 Cheese Pasta Sauce, 411 gram jar
- 1-2 cups Cheddar cheese, shredded
- salt and pepper, as desired
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200 C (400 F). Spray a 9x13 baking dish with olive oil.
- Cook the pasta in a pot of boiling salted water until just tender. Drain and add pasta to the baking dish.
- Add the tuna, corn, cheese pasta sauce and mix together well. Season with salt and pepper as desired.
- Spread the mixture out evenly and sprinkle the shredded cheese on the top, use as much cheese as you like.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the casserole is bubbly.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
The cheese sauce, in Thailand, is available from Lazada if you reside outside of a major city, cost is 178 Baht for a jar, which is not bad, it is a very good sauce. The Cheddar cheese will use 1/2 of a 200 gram block, about 90 Baht for that. For 6 servings, this is about $1.40 per serving.
Shortcuts: Fresh Tuna, Fresh Corn (Pressure Cooker).
Variants: 1. Use peas in place of the corn. 2. Use the higher quantities of Cheddar and tuna (highly recommended). 3. Add some sauteed onions. 4. Add some sauteed diced red bell pepper. 5. (Highly recommended.) Use the following measurements: 10 oz / 285 g dry bow tie pasta, 22 oz / 624 g jar Prego Homestyle Alfredo Sauce, 3 cups of shredded Cheddar cheese, 1 standard can of peas, I made this combination on 4 Aug 2019 and it was perfect.
Recipe and variants 3-4 provided by good friend, Kurt Hammerschmidt.
Thailand.
Thailand.