Description: Tuna goes really well with tomato cream sauce. When you have a little cream left in your fridge ? Time to make tomato cream sauce with it !
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- Spaghetti – 140g
- Extra virgin olive oil – 1 tablespoon
- Tuna – break into small chunks, 1 tin (use no drain, if not remove oil before cooking) or 110g
- Tomato tin – 400mL
- Single cream – 100mL
- Garlic – crushed, 2 cloves
- Onion – chopped, 1 piece or 150g
- Salt – 1 dash
- Ground black pepper – 2 dashes
Method
1. Follow the package instructions to cook the pasta to al dente in plenty of boiling water with salt.
2. When the pasta is almost cooked, heat the extra virgin olive oil in a large non-stick frying pan, then add the garlic and onion over medium heat for 30 seconds, stirring regularly.
3. Add tomato tin, salt and black pepper to the pan. Cook until it boils.
4. Add the tuna and cream, mix well and cook until it boils.
5. Add the hot drained pasta and mix well.
To serve: Sprinkle ground black pepper.
Nutritional values per serving
| Kcal | Protein | Fat | Carbs | Fibre | Sugars | Salt | Saturated Fat | Vitamin B6 | Vitamin B12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 590.4 | 27.6g | 22.3g | 67.3g | 7.9g | 10.6g | 0.8g | 6.6 g | 0.6mg | 1.2μg |
| 29.5% | 55.2% | 31.8% | 25.9% | 26.4% | 11.8% | 13.9% | 32.8% | 48.8% | 80.7% |
Nutritional Tips
Tuna contains essential nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and is especially rich in vitamin B3, B6 and B12.
Tuna can be added for many different recipes, salad (cucumber salad, cabbage, hakusai-cabbage, spinach, burdock roots, lotus roots, green pepper, beansprouts, onion, lettuce, eggs: anything goes well with tuna), pasta, sand-wiches, rice balls, fried-rice, risotto.
Tuna can be used for different pasta. For example, with aubergine, onion, olives, tomato, tomato cream, tuna-mayo. Why don’t you try one of them for one of your fish intake per week?
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