Ingredients

1 x 425 g	can of tuna in brine
2 cup	pasta spirals precooked
40 g	chunk of butter
3 tbsp	plain flour
400 mL	milk to make white sauce
3	shallots
2	celery sticks
	lemon pepper
1/2 cup	grated tasty cheese
30 mL	lemon juice
30 g	extra melted butter to top
1/2ish cup	breadcrumbs to top
1/2ish cup	extra cheese to top

Equipment

• heavy based pan
• oven

Method

1. preheat oven to 200C (moderate oven)
2. precook pasta
3. saute shallots and celery
4. melt butter in a large pan, add flour and cook until it honeycombs
5. add milk slowly, stirring all the time, sprinkle in cheese
6. add entire contentss of tuna can to sauce mixture, seperating tuna into flakes
7. add cooked pasta, shallots and celery to sauce
8. add lemon juice and lemon pepper and stir through
9. put into shallow dish
10. mix breadcrumbs with melted butter, grated cheese and more lemon pepper
11. sprinkle crumb mixture on top of tuna sauce mix
12. bake until brown and crisp on top approximately 20 minutes

Notes

Goes well with a tomato-based salad and bread rolls on the side

Fancy it up with 2 teaspoons of dill seeds in the tuna mix or a tablespoon of fresh dill finely chopped and stirred in at the end before baking

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