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🍽️ Creamy Tuna and Feta Bake with Spinach

750 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Fill a pot with about 4 liters of water and add salt. Cover the pot and bring the water to a boil.
  2. 2. Drain the water from the tuna packaging. Place the tuna in a sieve and set it on a plate to let it adjust to room temperature.
  3. 3. Add the Kritharaki (small, rice-shaped pasta) to the boiling salted water. Cook them for about 8 minutes until they are al dente (firm to the bite).
  4. 4. Drain the pasta in a sieve and let it drip dry for a moment.
  5. 5. Halve the onions and peel them. Trim and peel the garlic cloves as well.
  6. 6. Finely dice the onions and garlic.
  7. 7. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat.
  8. 8. Add the diced onions and garlic to the pan. Sweat them for about 3 to 4 minutes until they become translucent but not brown.
  9. 9. Add oregano and lightly salt the mixture.
  10. 10. Deglaze the pan with cream. Bring the sauce to a boil.
  11. 11. Let the sauce simmer on medium heat for about 5 minutes until it thickens.
  12. 12. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius using top and bottom heat.
  13. 13. Wash the spinach thoroughly.
  14. 14. Shake the spinach dry.
  15. 15. Take a baking dish.
  16. 16. Add the drained pasta to the baking dish.
  17. 17. Add the dry spinach.
  18. 18. Add the drained tuna.
  19. 19. Add the warm onion-cream sauce.
  20. 20. Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste.
  21. 21. Take the feta cheese in your hands.
  22. 22. Crumble the feta roughly with your hands.
  23. 23. Distribute the feta pieces evenly over the bake.
  24. 24. Place the baking dish in the upper third of the preheated oven.
  25. 25. Bake the bake for about 8 to 10 minutes until it is golden brown on top.
  26. 26. Wash the dill thoroughly.
  27. 27. Shake the dill dry.
  28. 28. Remove the thick stems from the dill.
  29. 29. Chop the dill roughly.
  30. 30. Take the finished bake out of the oven.
  31. 31. Let the bake cool down for a moment.
  32. 32. Sprinkle the chopped dill over the bake.
  33. 33. Serve the bake warm.

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