Curried Tuna Sweetcorn Sauce Food

SIMPLE TUNA CURRY WITH RICE

Steps:

• Start the rice cooking.
• Over low to moderate heat, saute onion, garlic, and your vegetable of choice in butter. (If you use tuna packed in oil, you can drain the oil and use that to saute the onions.)
• Season with salt and curry powder and continue to saute until veggies are tender.
• Stir flour into vegetables until it coats them and combines with the butter/oil.
• Over moderate heat, add enough of the milk to cover the vegetables, and stir to create a smooth sauce. As the milk begins to heat, the butter/flour mixture that was coating the vegetables will begin to blend with and thicken the milk. Once it becomes thick, add half of the remaining milk, and continue stirring until it again heats to the thickening point. Then add the rest of the milk, stir again, and allow to come to the thickening point for the last time. (This process is a bit difficult to describe, but not hard to do. Adding the milk at little at a time and stirring to keep it smooth as you go keeps the sauce from forming lumps and prevents scorching. You can also do this step over low heat, in which case you don't have to stand right over the pot stirring constantly, but it's still good to add the milk in stages, and stir regularly.).
• Once the sauce is heated, add the tuna, and bring back to simmering. If the tuna is packed in oil, drain the oil (which you may have used in step one). If it's packed in water, you can just dump the whole can into the sauce, water and all.
• Serve tuna curry over rice. A green veggies side is nice (steamed asparagus or broccoli, cucumbers in vinaigrette, green salad, or peas).

TUNA AND SWEETCORN BISQUE

Steps:

• Melt butter in large saucepan and add onion.
• Cook gently till soft.
• Stir in curry powder, paprika, and flour.
• Cook for 1 minute, stirring.
• Gradually stir in stock and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
• Add milk, lemon peel and sweetcorn and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Stir in the tuna, breaking it up into flakes and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
• Sprinkle in parsley and garnish each serving with a little cheddar cheese.

TUNA SWEETCORN PASTA BAKE

Steps:

• You also need 1 sachet Coleman's Tuna and Pasta Bake mix.
• Cook the pasta according to the given directions.
• Tip sachet contents into a saucepan.
• Add a splash of the milk and mix well.
• Stir in remaining milk.
• Bring sauce to the boil.
• Stirring continuously.
• Add tuna, sweetcorn and drained cooked pasta.
• Pour into heatproof dish.
• Top with crushed potato chips and grated cheese.
• Place under a hot grill until golden.
• Serve.

CURRIED TUNA & SWEETCORN SAUCE

Steps:

• Chop the onion, and soften it in the butter with the curry powder.
• When the onion is soft, remove the pan from the heat. Toss in the drained tuna and drained sweetcorn, and stir thoroughly.
• Dissolve the cornflour in a little of the milk, then add all of the milk and the cornflour-milk mixture to the contents of the saucepan. Beat rapidly with a wooden spoon.
• Return the pan to the heat, and bring to the boil, stirring constantly.
• When the sauce is bubbling and thickened, stir in the lemon juice and coriander/parsley, then season with salt and pepper.
• Serve hot, with rice or pasta or toast or baked potatoes.

TUNA, SPRING ONION & SWEETCORN FRITTERS

Steps:

• Mix the milk and eggs together in a jug with ½ tsp salt and ¼ tsp ground black pepper. Sift the flour into a bowl, make a well in the centre and pour in the egg mixture in a thin, steady stream, whisking well until combined. Stir in the sweetcorn, spring onions, lemon zest and tuna.
• Heat a drop of oil in a non-stick or cast iron frying pan over a medium heat. Drop spoonfuls of the batter into the pan and cook until crisp and golden, about 2-3 mins, flip and repeat on the other side (you'll need to do this in batches). Keep warm in a low oven and repeat with the remaining batter.
• Serve the hot fritters with the lemon wedges for squeezing over, the soured cream and hot sauce, if using.

TUNA SWEETCORN BURGERS

Steps:

• Whizz the bread in a food processor to crumbs, tip into a bowl, then whizz half the sweetcorn until finely chopped. Add the chopped corn, remaining whole corn, tuna, cheese, spring onions and some seasoning into the bowl with the bread and mix well. Add the egg, bit by bit (you may not need it all), until the mixture is sticky enough to be shaped into four even-size burgers.
• Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, then cook the burgers for 5 mins on each side until golden and hot through the middle. Stuff into wholemeal buns with your favourite lettuce and a good dollop of salsa.

TUNA & SWEETCORN FISH CAKES

Steps:

• Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until really tender. Drain and allow to steam-dry in a colander. Tip into a bowl, season and mash. Stir in the mayonnaise, tuna, sweetcorn and chives or parsley. Shape into 4 cakes and chill until cold and firm.
• Dip each cake into the egg, letting the excess drip off, then coat in the breadcrumbs. Chill for 15 mins.
• Heat a little of the oil in a pan and gently fry the cakes for 2-3 mins on each side until golden. You may need to do this in batches - keep warm in a low oven. Serve with extra mayonnaise and salad leaves.