Ingredients:
- Red lentil pasta
- Optional vegetables
- Tuna
- Tapioca flour
- Milk
- Butter
- Optional cheese (mild or medium)
Method:
1. Fill your flask just over half full with dry red lentil pasta (as a way to measure the amount you need to cook) then pour the pasta into a pan of bubbling boiling water.
2. Add optional vegetables (e.g. 4 small sprigs of broccoli and sliced celery) and cook together.
3. Whilst they cook, make the sauce. In a separate pan, melt a nobble of butter (about one third of a tablespoon).
4. As soon as the butter has melted, remove the pan from the heat and stir in about 1-2 teaspoons of tapioca flour. It will all soak up together.
5. Place the pan back on the heat and keep adding a good splash of milk and whisk together until the sauce thickens to the preferred consistency. This may take about 5 to 10 minutes.
6. Whisk in optional cheese.
7. The sauce is usually ready just before the pasta is cooked. Once ready, remove the sauce from the heat.
8. Drain the pasta and veggies and gently mix into the sauce mixture.
9. Gently add half or a full tin of tuna to the mixture to keep it nice and chunky.
10. Pour into your flask and pop the lid on.