Easy Mediterranean Pasta with Tuna and Tomatoes

Pasta with Tuna & Tomatoes

Here’s a quick and easy Mediterranean-inspired pasta dish with canned tuna, diced tomatoes, olives, capers, lemon, parsley and oregano. If you’re a fan Mediterranean cooking, you’ll love this quick and easy pasta that you can make in 30 minutes or less.

I made it last night for dinner while Rod tossed together a simple salad. It was a big hit.

The recipe is slightly adapted from a one I spied in my favorite cookbook of the moment, 5 Easy Steps to Healthy Cooking: 500 Recipes for Lifelong Wellness by Camilla Saulsbury, of Enlightened Cooking.

Camilla’s version calls for mulitgrain or whole wheat farfalle and olives, but no capers. Since I haven’t found a gluten-free version of farfalle, I used Fresh & Easy brown rice fusilli instead. (I think it’s just as good as Tinkyada Brown Rice Fusilli and a little cheaper.) And since I was short on kalamata olives, I used a combination of capers and olives instead.

Enjoy!

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Easy Mediterranean Pasta with Tuna and Tomatoes Recipe

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

30 mins

 

A quick & easy Mediterranean inspired pasta with tuna, diced tomatoes, olives, capers, lemon, parsley and oregano that you can make in 30 minutes or less

Recipe type: Pasta

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 8 ounces fusilli (spiral) pasta (multigrain, whole wheat or gluten-free)
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 can (14 to 15 ounces) diced tomatoes with Italian seasonings, undrained
• ¼ cup pitted brine-cured black olives (like kalamata), quartered
• ¼ cup brine-cured capers, drained
• 1 can (6 ounces) water-packed tuna, undrained
• ½ cup roughly chopped fresh Italian (flat-leaf) parsley
• 1-1/2 teaspoons minced fresh oregano
• 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
• 1 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Cook pasta according to package directions, reserving ¼ cup of the pasta water before draining.
2. In a large, heavy skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the tomatoes with their juice, olives, capers, and the reserved pasta water.
3. Bring the mixture to a gentle simmer and then stir in the pasta and tip in the tuna (liquid and all).
4. Reduce heat to low and cook for another minute, stirring to combine and break up the tuna into bite-sized pieces.
5. Stir in the parsley, oregano, lemon zest and lemon juice.
6. Taste and add salt and pepper to taste and then toss again.

Notes

Nutritional Estimates Per Serving (1/4th): 274 calories, 6 g fat, 38.2 g carbs, 2.6 g fiber, 17.7 g protein and 7 WW PointsPlus value If you don’t have capers, use ½ cup olives, instead If you don’t have fresh oregano, use ½ teaspoon dried instead

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If you liked this Easy Mediterranean Pasta with Tuna and Tomatoes, check out these links:

• My post and recipe for Mediterranean Chicken & Pasta (8 PointsPlus)
• My post and recipe for Weight Watchers friendly Pasta Puttanesca (8 PointsPlus)
• Weight Watchers Spaghetti Bolgnese Recipe (Recipe Girl)