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Pasta with Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon

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Pasta with Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon - an easy no cook sauce for your favorite pasta!

Pasta with Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon

I know that with today’s busy schedules it is difficult to find time to make dinner.  I get it.  But I also think that there are a lot of people who assume they don’t have time to make dinner, that making dinner must always take a lot of time.  Time, which they don’t have. What they don’t realize is that with a few simple ingredients, it is possible to really have dinner on the the table in 30 minutes.

Pasta with Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon - an easy no cook sauce!

 

This recipe is from Fresh and Light from Donna Hay is a perfect fast meal.  She calls it, Tuna, Chilli, Rocket and Lemon – but I know rocket as arugula, so that’s what I’m calling it. This is a fabulous no-cook pasta sauce.  So full of flavor!  The red chile adds a bit of heat which pairs nicely with the bitterness from the arugula.  The  capers add a tart saltiness and the lemon comes along and brightens everything, seemingly making everything taste more like itself.  The recipe originally served two, but I wisely doubled this, knowing we would want it again.

If you love arugula like I do, you have to try this Arugula Salad with Pears and Prosciutto.

Pasta with Tuna, Arugula, Chile, and Lemon
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Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon

This Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon Pasta can be on the table in under 30 minutes

Course Main Course
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 4 Servings
Calories 678 kcal

Ingredients

  • 12 oz tuna canned, drained
  • 2 long red chiles chopped
  • 5 oz baby arugula
  • 1 lemon juiced
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 tablespoons capers rinsed
  • 1 pound spaghetti

Instructions

  1. Cook pasta in boiling salted water according to directions.
  2. While pasta is cooking place the tuna, the chiles and the capers in a large bowl.  Top with the arugula (I place the arugula on top so that it has instant contact with the hot pasta. 
  3. Drain the pasta and add to the large bowl with the other ingredients, begin tossing to start wilting the arugula.  Add the lemon juice, olive oil and salt and pepper to taste and toss to combine.
Nutrition Facts
Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon
Amount Per Serving
Calories 678 Calories from Fat 144
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16g 25%
Saturated Fat 2g 10%
Cholesterol 15mg 5%
Sodium 541mg 23%
Potassium 669mg 19%
Total Carbohydrates 90g 30%
Dietary Fiber 5g 20%
Sugars 5g
Protein 41g 82%
Vitamin A 22.4%
Vitamin C 63.4%
Calcium 10.5%
Iron 20.6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

 

 

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  3. I make a very similar dish, given to me by a dear friend whose sister used to make it. Although it is super easy and great for weeknights, it has a certain elegance. Maybe I’m just an incurable romantic, but when I eat it I think that if I close my eyes, and take a gulp of Chianti, I can almost imagine being in an Italian farmhouse for dinner.

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  7. Simple, straightforward dishes like this are my favorite. This looks amazing – I’d probably got with 3 chiles, though. I am a chile addict. 🙂

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  12. This is closer to my version except I leave out the chilli and replace the arugula with flat leaf parsley.

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  16. This is a Happy dish, Pam. Quick, easy and oh so full of flavor! I still keep hoping more people are sitting down to dinner than what the statistics claim:) Fingers crossed…Thanks for sharing, Pam…

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  18. It looks really pretty, and sounds good. My son Ryan told me this weekend that any dinner I serve – even plain old spaghetti and meatballs – would be considered “formal dinner” by virtually everyone he knows, because most families do not sit down together and chat over dinner. Sometimes the parents eat together, sometimes everyone just nukes whatever they can find. Sad, isn’t it?

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