This Creamy Tuna Pasta uses only 4 ingredients and is delicious! So easy, anyone can cook it.

Even my teenager can cook it (in fact, she does, regularly!).

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Creamy Tuna Pasta

A really delicious creamy pasta that feels decadent and yet it couldn't be easier or quicker to prepare

Prep Time 2

Cook Time 15

Course Appetizer, Main Course

Cuisine British

Servings people

250 g spaghetti calculate 80-100 g per person, want leftovers? Cook extra
2 tablespoons double Cream or soft cheese (Philadelphia style cream cheese) single cream will work too. I don't measure, I just add until I am happy with the consistency
1 tin tuna we like it in spring water, use whatever tuna you have, you can easily stretch a tin of tuna for 3-4 people, these are odd times after all
1 handful olives green (optional, we don't even add them anymore)
Salt and pepper to taste

Get lots of water with some salt heating up on the hob in a big pan
Cook the spaghetti according to the packet, we like it al dente, ie with a bit of bite. Reserve some of the cooking water towards the end.
250 g spaghetti
Drain the spaghetti and add back to the pan.
Stir in the tuna and the olives.
Followed by the cream or soft cheese (if using soft cheese, add some of the cooking water too to thin it), you want the cream to coat the pasta so add it slowly. We don't like it with too much cream. If using soft cheese (which is our favourite way to make it nowadays), start with a tablespoon. Stir well until it's all mixed.
Then, and this is very important, salt and pepper. Above all lots of pepper.

This recipe is scalable. You can reduce it to cook for one or increase it to cook for as many as you want.

To reheat, add a bit of milk or cream when reheating and do it over a gentle heat

Keyword all-in-one, olives, pantry recipe, Pasta, store cupboard recipe, storecupboard recipe, tuna

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Because it's so simple and scalable that you don't need them.

You know those recipes that say "4 ingredients" and then the list of ingredients is super long?

This recipe is not one of those.

Well, the only ingredients I've left out of that number are the salt and pepper because I'm presuming you already have them at home.

Or that you may not even want to add them.

Although, I must say, we like this pasta with both.

Double Cream (single cream will work if that's what you have), get a small pot if you don't like double cream in your coffee

Tuna (we like it in spring water, use whatever tuna you have), you can easily stretch a tin of tuna for 3-4 people, these are odd times after all

In our house this MUST be made with spaghetti, T won't have it any other way.

But it's great with linguine too. And with tagliatelle.

And any other pasta shape, even short pasta, it's very versatile!