Archive for May 8th, 2008

May 08 2008

Weekend Cooking: Linguine w/ Quick Tuna Sauce and Cordon Bleu

Published by nice under Food and Restos

Here is what we had last weekend, courtesy of my sister. :) Please try out the recipe and let us know how it went. And if you decide to post this on your blogs kindly give credit to whom it is due.  :)

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Linguine With Quick Tuna Sauce

Ingredients:
1 big can diced tomatoes
1 small can hot and spicy tuna (drained but set aside the oil for the sauce)
1 sachet tomato paste
2 tbsp olive oil
5 tbsp garlic (minced)
8 tbsp onions (minced)
1 big can tuna (drained)
sugar
pepper
cayenne
salt
500g linguine

Directions:
Tuna Sauce
In a casserole, boil vegetable oil from the hot and spicy canned tuna, tomatoes and tomato paste
Heat the olive oil in a pan.
Sauté garlic and onions. Add tuna chunks and flakes
Transfer the sautéed ingredients to the casserole of boiling tomatoes
Lower the fire and wait until the red sauce thickens
Add sugar, pepper, cayenne and salt to taste

Pasta
Cook according to packaging instructions

Mix together the linguine and the tuna sauce. Serve with Parmesan cheese.

Cordon Bleu

Ingredients:
5 pcs chicken breast butterfly fillet
¼ bar butter
salt
ground pepper
rosemary (dried)
5 pcs ham
½ box cheese (sliced)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 egg (beaten)
3 cups bread crumbs
2 cups cooking oil
1 sachet cream of mushroom soup

Directions:
Pound the chicken
Spread it with butter
Season with salt, pepper and rosemary
Put a slice of ham and lay slices of cheese
Roll up each chicken breast
Dredge each in flour, shake off excess, then in egg and finally in bread crumbs
Deep fry

Sauce
Cook the cream of mushroom soup with less water than its packaging directions
Wire whisk the soup until it thickens

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