Pasta with TUNA SAUCE
If you have little time but still want a tasty and appetizing dish, PASTA with TUNA SAUCE is a perfect quick and easy first course to prepare even if you don’t know how to cook.
The pasta is seasoned with a delicious sauce similar to TUNA SAUCE but much lighter and less caloric as it does not contain mayonnaise or eggs.
Preparing PASTA with TUNA SAUCE is really simple, just the time to cook the pasta and you’re ready to serve a light and creamy first course, great both hot and at room temperature, suitable for all seasons.
To prepare this recipe, just a few simple steps are needed: shred the tuna, mix it in a bowl with ricotta, add capers and a few anchovies in oil, then season the pasta with a tablespoon of cooking water, a quick mix, and a sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley and you’re ready to go to the table.
An extremely versatile recipe that you can personalize by adding or replacing ingredients according to your taste or what’s in your fridge: you can add green or black olives for a bolder touch, fresh chili pepper for spiciness, replace ricotta with spreadable cheese or robiola for an even creamier sauce, and you can replace parsley with fresh oregano or thyme.
Whatever your choice, the TUNA PASTA, ready in just a few minutes, will be a success: a valid solution for lunches and dinners during the week, plus thanks to its texture and delicate taste, it will be much loved by children.
Oh, I almost forgot… another advantage of this recipe, which is not a small one, is its economic nature and with just a few simple ingredients, you can feed an army!!!
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Energy 270.28 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 25.74 (g) of which sugars 0.55 (g)
- Proteins 22.85 (g)
- Fat 7.73 (g) of which saturated 2.62 (g)of which unsaturated 4.27 (g)
- Fibers 1.56 (g)
- Sodium 800.53 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 5 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 11.29 oz pasta
- 7.05 oz tuna in oil
- 3.53 oz ricotta (or spreadable cheese or robiola)
- anchovies in oil (2 fillets)
- capers in salt (1 teaspoon chopped)
- to taste salt
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Tools
- Pot
- 1 Bowl
NOTE
Since the sauce is prepared in a flash, first put a pot with plenty of slightly salted water to boil, and as soon as it starts boiling, add the pasta (follow the cooking times on the package of the shape you have chosen).
Place the drained tuna in a bowl and shred it with a fork, add the ricotta, and mix with a spoon to combine.
Rinse the capers (if they are in salt) and chop them with a knife, do the same with the anchovies. Add both to the tuna and ricotta mixture and mix.
As soon as the pasta is cooked, pour it directly into the bowl with the TUNA SAUCE along with 1 or 2 tablespoons of pasta cooking water (adjust based on the consistency you want, more or less creamy). Plate and sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley: your PASTA WITH TUNA SAUCE is ready to be enjoyed!
TIPS
If you decide to enjoy the Pasta with Tuna Sauce cold, I recommend, after draining the pasta, quickly rinsing it under a stream of cold water to stop the cooking and then seasoning it directly in the bowl.
I prefer the TUNA SAUCE to have a more granulated texture, if you want a smoother texture, use an immersion blender to blend the sauce before seasoning the pasta.
For a lighter preparation, replace tuna in oil with tuna in water, it has a much more neutral taste but is also much less caloric.
Instead of ricotta, even spreadable cheese like Philadelphia or robiola works well.
Add a grind of pepper if you like it.
STORAGE
PASTA TUNA SAUCE can be stored in the refrigerator for up to two days.
