This Pasta with Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon is so easy, you don’t even have to cook the sauce! Post may contain affiliate links.
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.
This recipe is from Fresh and Light
Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon
This Tuna, Chile, Arugula and Lemon Pasta can be on the table in under 30 minutes
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
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Cook pasta in boiling salted water according to directions.
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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.
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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.
I have a similar recipe and love it! The canned tuna sounds weird as a pasta sauce but it works really well.
What a beautifully simple dish! I love pasta like this and it reminds me of Italy.
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.
Simple and very delicious I’m sure. Great way to use canned tuna without loading it with mayo or cheese. On the dinner roster for this week.
What an absolutely gorgeous pasta dish! I love the flavors here: tuna with a bit of spice, citrus and the slightly bitter arugula sound heavenly together!
Arugula is one of my favorite greens. What a great idea for using it in a recipe!
Simple, straightforward dishes like this are my favorite. This looks amazing – I’d probably got with 3 chiles, though. I am a chile addict. 🙂
Such a great dish!! Some nights I’m just too tired too cook, yet still… Almost an hour goes by and I’m slaving over my stove. Love this flavor packed easy meal. Slave no more!!
I wish we would start calling arugula “rocket” here in the States. it’s much cooler.
I know! Right!
Love this – I’m putting it on my list for next week. It looks so easy for a weeknight and I can imagine how lovely the tuna + red pepper + lemon is together.
It really is so good together!
Gorgeous Pam! I think this one might have to go in our lunch rotation!
It should! It’s so easy and so good!
This is closer to my version except I leave out the chilli and replace the arugula with flat leaf parsley.
Oh my gosh, I want this so badly.
I’ve made similar recipes before and let me just say good canned tuna fish id worth every penny. GREG
Yum!
xo Catherine
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…
Wonderful combo of flavors and so perfect for upcoming spring meals! Pinning on my pasta board!
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?
Quick, simple, delicious. My kind of food!
All those capers make me so happy! As do the rest of the ingredients…but I’m especially a sucker for capers.