The quickest, easiest and tastiest pasta recipe on the planet
Recipe posted by Sambo
TARTED UP TUNA PASTA
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Ingredients
Switch to Cup Measures- 50 grams anchovies
- 185 grams tuna (in oil)
- 250 grams pasta (penne is good)
- 1 slice butter (thick slice)
- 1 handful fresh parsley (chopped - optional)
Method
I have made this dozens of times and even those 'I don't like anchovy' types really enjoy it!
- Cook the pasta and when it is three minutes away from being ready, melt the butter in a saucepan over a low to medium heat.
- Once it has melted, add the drained tuna, then the anchovies with their oil. Using a fork, mash the anchovies into the tuna. You’ll find that in a matter of moments, they will all but disappear as they dissolve into the tuna.
- As soon as the fish has blended together, remove from the heat or the mixture will become dry.
- Drain the pasta and stir the fish mixture through it. This is a ‘mix in’ rather than ‘sit on top’ sort of pasta sauce.
- If you are using parsley, be generous as it adds a really fresh flavour to the dish. Plus it creates the illusion that you've gone to loads of effort, which you blatantly haven't had to. Can't wait to read your reviews!
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Delicious! Cooked it for both us of, but she was late and I'd eaten nearly all of it by the time she got home!
Posted by Neil_in_Norfolk on 24th Oct 2012 at 19.09