Tuna and fennel pasta

Serves:2-3
Cooking Time:20 minutes
Cook's Tips:Cook's note: This pasta is totally effortless and rewarding. The distinctive anise-like flavour of the fennel becomes more mellow as it cooks and marries perfectly with the salty tuna.
Prep Time:10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 tuna pouch. drained
  • 1 large or 2 medium fennel bulbs
  • 2-3 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
  • 1/2 cup stock (vegetable, chicken or fish)
  • 1/2 cup low fat plain yoghurt
  • lemon juice, a squeeze
  • 250 g spaghetti, cooked al dente
  • Italian parsley, finely chopped, for sprinkling
  • Parmesan, grated, for serving or 1tsp nutritional yeast

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Separate the tuna into large flakes and set aside. Cut the fennel in half, then slice thinly into half-moons.
  2. Gently cook in the oil until very soft and limp. Stir in the garlic, tuna and a little seasoning. Pour in the stock and yoghurt and bring to a bubble. Add the lemon juice.
  3. Stir in the drained, hot pasta and check the seasoning. Sprinkle with parsley and serve immediately. Pass around the Parmesan at the table.

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