This is a very simple pasta dish. I like it because it is really tasty, colourful and easy to prepare. I usually make it when I do not have a lot of time, but feel like eating something flavoursome and healthy. Try and make it as a mid week dinner, I am sure you will enjoy both the dish and the extra spare time you will have to spend relaxing with your family. Also, if you haven’t done it yet, remember you can participate in my international giveaway for a chance to win a digital scale!
Ingredients for 4 persons:
1 red capsicum, cleaned and cut in thin strips
200 gms tinned tuna, preserved in olive oil
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 small onion, thinly sliced
4 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp green olives, chopped
1/2 tbsp capers, preserved in salt (washed)
Water
Salt to taste (add it only at the end as the ingredients are salty already)
400 gms spaghetti
Put the sliced onion, the tomato puree and the red capsicum strips in a pot. Add half a glass of water, cover it and let it cook on a low fire until the capsicum is soft.
Add the extra virgin olive oil and cook uncovered on a medium fire for a couple of minutes.
Add the tuna, olives and capers. Mix well and cook for 2 minutes. Add salt to taste (if required) and a little water if the sauce is too thick.
In the meantime, cook spaghetti following the steps on How to cook pasta “al dente” in the Techniques page of this site. When the pasta is ready, drain it and serve it with the tuna and capsicum sauce on the top. Mix well and enjoy it warm.
On a completely different note… MsM’s Baked Swordfish made it on today’s Foodbuzz Top 9!
I am so excited about it! It is the first time that one of my recipes is featured on the Top 9 and I want to thank all the people who buzzed my recipe and all my readers in general! Your support and love means the world to me: THANK YOU!!!! <3
Really great sauce for spaghetti, Manu! Few ingredients, easy to make, healthy, this is great recipe.
Congrats on the Top 9 – well deserved!! This dish looks easy, and healthy!
What a great mid-week dinner. Healthy and simple to prepare. Love the colourful photos 🙂
Yay for Top 9! That was an awesome dish 🙂 This one is great too. I like colorful dishes. I swear, they taste better!
Congrats on top 9! And this pasta looks fabulous! It goes straight to my list of “to cook soon” dishes.
Congrats again on the Top 9… and you’re totally right: this is an healthy, tasty and easy dish! Perfect!
This looks great, my daughter loves tuna so i’m sure this would be a winner!
Congrats on the Top 9 Manu! This pasta looks yummy- I might try it with all the canned salmon I have!
Yummy! I love tuna with pasta, but I have never made it this way. Bookmarking it to try it next time. Maybe sooner than I think because I have tuna & red capsicum at home right now! 🙂 Thanks for sharing this yummy recipe, Manu!
Congratulations for the Foodbuzz top 9! Brava!! I think I just got an idea for dinner tonight as I have peppers in the fridge to use up.
yet another healthy dish weee.. i really need to start making healthy dinners!!!
Yummy recipe Manu..I love tuna addition! Looks not only pretty and colorful but delicious too!
What a delicious sauce!! I really like that you added the pepper… it sounds delicious!
Woww.. Yummmm 😀 and so colorful 🙂
Looks fab! I’ll give it a go!
Congrats again on top 9! We love to come here and look at your recipes and you have great supporters here! This pasta looks so easy and delicious – I have to give it a try on week night. Italian dish is so simple yet I really really love the flavors from the simple ingredients!
can I come to your home..you are so creative..my mouth is watering looking at this..;)P
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That spaghetti looks simple but really good…and I love that it has tuna in it!
Congrats on the Top 9, Manu! Well deserved!
Che bel piatto di spaghetti, fanno voglia! E complimenti per la top 9! Strano che questo accada per la prima volta solo ora, con le belle ricette che hai pubblicato!!
I had tuna spaghetti is Cape Verde (Africa) believe it or not! It was DELICIOUS! Your version, with the capers, looks amazing!
Wanted to let you know I made this, loved it and am posting about it (linking to you of course). Let me know if you want to add it to MsM in your Kitchen.
Manu, how I have missed your blog and yummy creations. Im glad to be back to catch up on all of them! This spaghetti looks and sounds delicious! Bookmarking it 🙂