Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce:
- Get 2-4 tuna steaks
- Get 250 g pappardelle (or tagliatelle) pasta
- Prepare 200 ml cooking cream
- Prepare 1/4 cup pine nuts, plus some extra for serving
- Prepare 1 cup fresh basil
- Prepare 3 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1 cup parmesan cheese (finely grated)
- Get 3 garlic cloves
- Make ready Juice of 1 lime
- Take 1 tbsp cornflour (for thickening the sauce)
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
Don't cook the pasta all the way through when boiling. You will be adding the pasta at the end after cooking the sauce. It is better to boil the pasta just until almost done with a little bite left to it. Return the tuna steaks to the skillet.
Steps to make Tuna steak pasta with creamy pesto sauce:
- In a blender add the cooking cream, 2 tbsp of olive oil, pine nuts, basil, parmesan, crushed garlic cloves and lime juice. Blend on a medium speed until smooth.
- Heat the sauce in a pan with the cornflour over a medium heat, until slightly thicker. Stir consistently to avoid any lumps forming. (For best results make the night before and store in the fridge).
- Next boil water with salt and add the pasta. Cook for around 4 minutes.
- Heat the rest of the oil in a frying pan on a high heat.
- Season the tunas steaks with pepper on both sides.
- Once the pan is hot add the steaks and turn the heat down to a medium temperature.
- Cooked the tuna steaks for 1-2 minutes on each side depending on their thickness and how well you would like them cooked. You can watch the sides of the steak turn white to see how far they have cooked. Becareful not to dry the steak out, they can easily become dry.
- Now roast the extra pine nuts in the pan for a couple of minutes until browned.
- Serve the steaks over the pasta and heated sauce. Sprinkle the pine nuts on top and garnish with fresh basil.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Place the egg noodles on two plates, divided evenly. Top each with a tuna steak. Spoon the mushroom sauce over each tuna steak, divided evenly. Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to package directions. Drain the pasta, reserving about ½ cup of the pasta water.
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