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Tuna pasta
Also known as pasta al tonno · spaghetti al tonno · pasta with tuna · tuna spaghetti
Short pasta with tuna, olives, capers and tomato — the weeknight classic of every Italian cupboard. Briny, quick, satisfying.
Typical serving
540 kcal
usually 420–690 kcal
 Protein | 26 g |
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 Carbs | 69 g |
 Fat | 18 g |
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Ingredients
Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 180gspaghetti
- 2 tinstinned tuna — in olive oil and drained — the ones in brine come out dry and stringy
- 1 tintinned tomatoes
- 2 tbspolive oil
- 2garlic cloves
- 40gblack olives
- 1 tbspcapers — rinsed if they came in salt
- ½ tspdried chilli flakes
- 1 handfulflat parsley
Method
6 steps
chop · 5mGarlic sliced, olives torn off their stones, parsley chopped.
fry · 5mGarlic and chilli into the oil from cold and brought up until the garlic is blond, then the capers and olives for a minute.
simmer · 15mTomatoes crushed in and cooked down until thick. Taste before salting — the capers and olives have usually done that job already.
boil · 9mSpaghetti in salted water, drained a minute early, a mug of the water kept.
fold · 3mPasta and a splash of its water tossed into the sauce, and only THEN the tuna flaked in, off the heat. Simmered in the sauce it goes chalky and grey and there is no reason to do it.
finish · 1mParsley, pepper, a thread of oil. No cheese on this one either.
Worth knowing
Italy’s tinned tuna is packed in olive oil and treated as an ingredient with vintages — the cupboard version is not the compromise.
Tinned tuna keeps most of fresh tuna’s protein — a cupboard staple with the macros of a fish counter.
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