Tuna with Pesto and Pasta Salad
Tuna with Pesto and Pasta Salad

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, tuna with pesto and pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

How To Make Tuna Pasta Salad. To start, bring your pasta water to a boil and cook pasta according to package directions. You can use any "short" pasta shape, such as rigatoni (what I used), farfalle, fusilli, or penne.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tuna with pesto and pasta salad using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tuna with Pesto and Pasta Salad:
  1. Make ready pasta dried shapes / 8 oz .
  2. Make ready tuna water canned (175g / 6 oz.) in (drained)
  3. Prepare beans French (halved) / 5 oz .
  4. Take cherry tomatoes (halved) / 10 oz .
  5. Make ready cucumber (roughly chopped) / 8 oz .
  6. Make ready ricotta low fat / 6 fl . oz .
  7. Prepare vegetable stock (cold) / 3½ fl . oz .
  8. Get lemon juice
  9. Make ready basil leaves (roughly chopped)
  10. Prepare pine nuts (35g / 1½ oz.)
  11. Get garlic (chopped)
  12. Take chili flakes
  13. Prepare black pepper ground

When pasta is cooked, drain and rinse with cold water. Add pasta to tuna mixture and mix well. Stir in the pesto (the oil in it will stop the pasta sticking). Roughly flake the tuna and stir into the pasta, along with the chopped cucumber and tomatoes.

Steps to make Tuna with Pesto and Pasta Salad:
  1. Put the pasta in an uncovered pan of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. For the last 1½ minutes add the green beans. Strain to remove the water. Set aside to cool.
  2. Whilst the pasta is cooking put all of the ingredients for the pesto into a blender and reduce to a loose paste. Mix with all of the other ingredients.
  3. When the pasta and beans are cool put in a serving dish and top with the mixed ingredients.

Season and add the French dressing and stir it all together. This simple twist on traditional pasta salad uses basil pesto as the dressing to enhance the flavors of other ingredients. In the meantime, place the pesto, cream cheese, and drained tuna in a small saucepan. Tips for making great Pesto Pasta with Tuna. Don't cook the pasta all the way through when boiling.

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