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
Ingredients
- Spaghetti calculate 80 g per person, want leftovers? Cook extra
- Double Cream or soft cheese (Philadelphia style cream cheese) single cream will work if that’s what you have
- 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
- Olives green
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- 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.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.
Notes
Why do I give you no exact amounts for this recipe?
Because it’s so simple and scalable that you don't need them.
Creamy Tuna Pasta Ingredients
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.
- Spaghetti, calculate 80 g per person, want leftovers? Cook extra
- 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
- Olives, green
- Salt and pepper
Can I use any other pasta shapes?
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!
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Hazel says
"Get lots of water with some salt heating up on the hob in a big pan." You c/should add "The inner pot of the Instant Pot Evo Plus is ideal for this"
Maria says
Very good point!!