Mediterranean Tuna Pasta
This is a tasty, and easy to assemble, pasta salad.
Ingredients
- 340 grams dry spiral pasta, or any bite size pasta, (12 oz)
- 2 cans tuna in olive oil, (about 185 g / 5 oz each)
- 1 cup tomato, drained of juice, chopped
- ¼ cup pitted green olives, sliced, or black olives
- ¼ cup red onion, diced, or brown onion
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 tablespoon capers, coarsely chopped
- 2 teaspoons lemon or lime juice
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 3 tablespoons if using tuna packed in water
- 1½ cups Mozzarella Cheese, shredded, or as desired
- salt and pepper, to taste, as desired
Instructions
- Heat a pot of salted water to boiling, then add the pasta and cook until tender, drain. (I used small shell pasta.)
- While the water is heating for the pasta, let's prepare the rest of the salad. If the canned tuna in olive oil is good quality, no need to drain the oil, just add the tuna and oil into a large mixing bowl and omit adding the olive oil listed in the ingredients. If the tuna you are using is not good quality olive oil, or packed in soybean oil or water, drain those add the tuna to a large mixing bowl. Break up the large pieces with a fork. (I used 3 cans, 165 g / 5¾ oz each, I like a lot of tuna in a salad.)
- To the same mixing bowl, add the tomato, olives, onion, parsley, and capers.
- Mix together, this makes it easier to mix in the pasta.
- Add the pasta, cheese, olive oil, and lemon or lime juice. Gently mix together. Taste and season with salt and pepper as desired. At this point you can serve this warm as a side dish, I however decided to cover and place in the fridge for a few hours to chill to serve as a main dish.
- Serve as a side dish or as a main dish. Enjoy.
Notes
Low cost per serving as a main dish as this makes a lot.