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Recipe: Pasta in Creamy Tuna and Mushroom

25 March 2010 23 Comments Category: Food, Recipes, Tips

The following week I made my baked tuna pasta dish with red sauce, I had to make another tuna pasta dish, this time with white sauce because my Husband loves white sauce in pasta dishes.

My Husband and I are opposites when it comes to food (example: he likes dark chocolate while I like white chocolate; he likes white sauce in pasta, I like red sauce). It’s a good thing though, when we eat, there’s always a variety.

Pasta in white sauce is equally delicious. But I love pasta in tomato sauce or sauce-less pastas because it has less fat. Anyway, it’s not bad to have it once in a while, plus I get to make my Husband happier.


 
What you need:
200g cooked pasta (I used spaghetti noodles this time)
2 tbsp olive oil (or any cooking oil you choose)
I big can of Tuna
1 medium-sized onion, diced
4 cloves of garlic, minced
150g button mushrooms, sliced (or you can add more if you like)
1 medium-sized carrot, cut into small cubes
125g Fresh Cream
A dash of Basil
Salt and Pepper to taste

What you need to do:

1. Saute onion and garlic in olive oil.
2. Stir in the fresh cream.
3. Add the tuna and mushroom and leave for 10 minutes.
4. Throw in carrot bits. Stir once every few minutes until sauce thickens.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Add a dash of Basil.


Serve with Parmesan Cheese on top.

Tips:
a. Carrots are optional. I just add those in because I wanted to up the healthy factor of this dish and I like seeing color on the food I eat.

b. You can use bacon as an alternative to tuna. Trust me, it’s delicious.

Bon appetit!

    23 Comments

  1. CandyQ

    We all love white sauce around here and this seems a healthier alternative to using bacon so I’m going to try this recipe. 🙂 Just one thing though, you didn’t mention tuna anywhere in your recipe. 🙂

  2. Ibyang

    thanks Candy! mistake of the decade naman yun hehehe. thank you thank you for noticing. I’ve now edited 🙂

    enjoy!!! 🙂

  4. lauren

    omg angsarap nito! favorite namin ang mushroom, plus pair it with tuna and perfect meal na! wow. thanks for the recipe, i’ll try this for the bf (yihee)

  7. RicAdeMus

    That looks great! In general, I don’t like white sauce on pasta, but dishes involving tuna are the one exception. I could probably eat anything with tomato sauce–but I have to agree with your husband on the dark chocolate.

    “plus I get to make my Husband happier” – Yay Ibyang! I put you up on a pedastal now!!! =)

  10. kay

    Wahhh! Nakakagutom … ako basta pasta pero I love pesto pasta … baka yun naman pwede mo gawin next week … hehe

  11. mom & son

    Ibyang, I’m sure masarap ‘tong luto mo.
    Hehhehe…thanks for sharing. Will try this recipe
    one of these days, I’ll surprise hubby. LOL!

  14. lauren

    hi, it’s me again, and i would just like to share that the bf and i tried your recipe last saturday, and for such kitchen twerps like us, it was really easy to do. the ‘finished product’ was very well-received by the bf’s mom so much that she texted her sister (who lived a few houses away) about the dish, who replied right away to save some for them! 🙂 so we sent what was left of the dish to them and they liked it too. 🙂 thank you again!

  15. Ibyang

    @lauren: the pleasure was all mine 🙂 thank you for trying out this recipe…and thank you for letting me know about your experience. i’m very happy you and your bf and bf’s mom liked them. your comment made me soooo happy. mwah! 🙂

  18. mike

    Great recipe! Thanks for sharing this to us. Now I have a new recipe to cook for dinner. Im sure my wife and my little kid would love this. It would also really go well with a tall glass of cold coffee, beans freshly ground from my new coffee grinder gvx2 Kudos!

  22. myroyalhonee

    Have u tried spicy tuna herb pasta? Ist almost the same but there’s no cream base.. also, my friend and I used to put other herbs into it.. I’ll email u the recipe in a while.

    I will post it in my blog too. U want recipe to do chapchae as well?

  23. Anonymous

    what fresh cream did you use? just a newbie gonna try this but don’t know what “fresh cream” is.

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