20. March 2026
Delicious Tuna and Pesto Pasta: A Quick Recipe You’ll Love!
Ingredients (Serves 2)
- 300g Fusilli Pasta
- 2 garlic cloves
- 60g Rocket
- 20g parsley and basil (a few leaves on top)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 20g grated Parmigiano
- 1 tin of Tuna
- pinch of black pepper
- 1 Vegetable Stock Cube
- Salt & Fine Ground Black Pepper
Instructions
- Begin by cooking the pasta, crumble a vegetable stock cube into the water - cook until al dente - around 10 minutes.
- Drain the pasta and keep half a cup of the water from your pasta pan for later.
- In a food processor, blend the rocket, the parsley, olive oil, garlic cloves, lemon zest and juice, parmigiano and the black pepper.
- Whizz the ingredients together until you have a sexy green pesto.
- Put a large saucepan on a low heat and add in the bright green pesto and tuna, followed by the pasta.
- Mix it all together until the pasta has been completely covered by the pesto.
- You may want to add in a little of the pasta water at this stage to loosen the pesto slightly.
- Top with a pinch of rocket and serve with a little grated parmigiano on top