Recipe: Perfect Tuna Mac-and-Cheese

Tuna Mac-and-Cheese.

You can have Tuna Mac-and-Cheese using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tuna Mac-and-Cheese

1. Prepare 2 cups of whole wheat egg noodles.
2. You need 2 tbsp. of unsalted butter.
3. You need 1/4 of yellow onion, finely diced.
4. You need 3 cloves of garlic, minced.
5. Prepare 2 tbsp. of all purpose flour.
6. You need 3/4 cup of unsalted chicken broth.
7. It's 3/4 cup of milk.
8. You need 1/4 tsp. of each salt, pepper.
9. It's 3/4 cup of frozen peas.
10. Prepare 3/4 cup of freshly shredded cheese of choice.
11. You need 1 can (5 oz.) of unsalted, solid albacore tuna, drained.

Tuna Mac-and-Cheese instructions

1. Cook the egg noodles in a large pot of salted boiling water according to package directions. Once it's done, drain it and toss it lightly with olive oil to prevent it from sticking. Set it aside. In the same pot, heat the butter over medium heat. Once it's melted, add the onion and cook until it's translucent, just about 3-4 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook just until fragrant..
2. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring fairly constantly for a couple more minutes. Then slowly add in the broth and the milk while stirring to fully incorporate everything smoothly. Increase the heat to med-high. Let it come up to a low boil..
3. Once it's bubbling, lower the heat back down and let it simmer until it's thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon. Then stir in the salt, pepper and peas. Slightly break up the tuna with a fork into large chunks and stir that in as well. Remove from the heat and stir in the cheese until it's melted in, then serve..