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

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tuna with pesto and pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Prepare 225 g pasta dried shapes / 8 oz .
  2. Get 2 tuna water canned (175g / 6 oz.) in (drained)
  3. Take 150 g beans French (halved) / 5 oz .
  4. Make ready 300 g cherry tomatoes (halved) / 10 oz .
  5. Take 225 g cucumber (roughly chopped) / 8 oz .
  6. Make ready 150 ml ricotta low fat / 6 fl . oz .
  7. Get 100 ml vegetable stock (cold) / 3½ fl . oz .
  8. Make ready 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  9. Get 3 cups basil leaves (roughly chopped)
  10. Make ready 2 tablespoons pine nuts (35g / 1½ oz.)
  11. Get 3 cloves garlic (chopped)
  12. Take ½ teaspoon chili flakes
  13. Get ½ teaspoon black pepper ground

It's made with protein-packed canned tuna and a dairy-free hemp seed pesto. One of my go-to easy make-ahead lunch ideas will always be a pasta salad. 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.

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. Season and add the French dressing and stir it all together. Combine pesto and lemon juice in a screw top jar. Shake well to combine Add tuna, onion, cucumbers, tomatoes, feta and olives to pasta.

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