Description: Tuna lemon pasta salad. Feels like eating pasta salad? This is one of my suggestions to prepare something quick, easy and ready to eat in 15 mins.
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
- Parsley – 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 parsley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 454.1 | 24.9g | 12.9g | 60.0g | 3.1g | 1.6g | 0.5g | 0.9g | 1.2μg | 1.3mg |
| 22.7% | 49.8% | 18.4% | 23.1% | 10.3% | 1.7% | 9.1% | 4.3% | 80.7% | 42.9% |
Nutritional Tips
Benefits of tuna are not limited to fresh tuna, but also tinned tuna is beneficial to our health. It is recommended to consume 2 portions of fish per week (one of which should be oily fish). Tuna is considered as white fish although it used to be considered as oily fish.
It may not be easy to buy fresh fish all the time. However, you could have 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.
