Description: Feel like eating pasta? Your fridge is almost empty, but you have tinned tuna? Then this may be a good one. It can be served both hot and cold, or even be prepared as a pasta salad and served as a side menu.
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients 

• Spaghetti – 160g
• Tuna – break into small chunks, 1 tin (use no drain if not, remove oil before cooking) or 110g
• Olive oil – 1 tablespoon
• Lemon – 1 slice
• Chive – 1 tablespoon
• Ground black pepper – according to preference

Method

1. Cook the pasta until al dente in plenty of boiling water with salt.
2. When pasta is boiled, add the tuna, olive, lemon and chive into a bowl, mix well.

To serve: Sprinkle ground black pepper and parmesan cheese according to your preference.

Nutritional Values Per Serving

Kcal	Protein	Fat	Carbs	Fibre	Sugars	Salt	Saturated Fat	Vitamin B12	Vitamin E
453.8	24.9g	12.9g	60.0g	3.1g	1.6g	0.5g	0.9g	1.2μg	1.3mg
22.7%	49.7%	18.4%	23.1%	10.3%	1.8%	9.1%	4.3%	80.7%	42.5%

Nutritional Tips

Benefits of tuna are not limited to fresh tuna, tinned tuna is also beneficial to our health. It is recommended to consume 2 portions of fish per week (one of which should be oily fish). Tuna is regarded as white fish although it used to be considered as an oily fish.

Examples of oily fishes include herring, salmon, sardine, trout and mackerel. White fishes include cod, haddock, sea bass, sea bream and flounder. Tinned fish varieties may vary depending on the countries you live in. Tuna, mackerel, anchovies may generally be common although there are more types of tinned fishes in Japan including yellow tail, pacific saury/mackerel pikes as well as different flavours (e.g. miso, teriyaki).

It may not be easy to buy fresh fish all the time. However, you could keep cupboard foods at home including tinned tuna or any tinned fish so that you can add one portion of fish whenever you want. These cupboard foods can be stored for a long time.