Quick Tangy Tasty Tuna Pasta

category

I have created two recipe categories - 1.  Recipes that make you thin (or keep you thin).  and 2.  Recipes that are just Yummy!

Recipes that make you thin are a collection of recipes I created while following weight watchers last year.  This is one from that collection:

serves

This is 2 portions that will leave your tummy very full.  If you want to full it out a bit more, add extra zucchini, onion and capsicum.

time

15 minutes or less, depending on time taken to cook pasta

ingredients

1 red capsicum, roughly chopped

1 onion, roughly chopped

1 TBS capers, roughly chopped

2 Heaped TBS tomato paste

1 clove garlic, chopped or minced 

1 thumb ginger, chopped  (1 thumb means the size roughly of your thumb)

1 BIG can of tuna, in spring water

100g -150g pasta (uncooked)

Olive oil 

Salt and pepper to taste.

5 olives chopped (optional, not good for diets)

directions

1. cook pasta in hot salty boiling water, as per directions on packet.

meanwhile...

2. Spray frying pan with olive oil spray and fry onions, capsicum, garlic and ginger.  Add a few TBS water when the frying pan gets too dry and the ingredients start to stick.   

3.  Once veggies are slightly soft and brown, add tuna (with spring water, tomato paste, capers and salt and pepper.  Stir well to break up tuna and when it is hot, turn off the stove and remove from heat.  Optionally add in your chopped olives.

4.  Add cooked and drained pasta into the sauce dish.  Stir in and serve.

other options

If you like your pasta really saucy, they add 1/3 jar of your favourite tomato based pasta sauce instead of the tomato paste.