Tuna pasta with rocket & parsley pesto

Per serving

494kcal
31гProteins
16гFats
56гCarbs

Whizz up a quick homemade pesto with parsley and lemon juice, then serve spooned through hot pasta with fish, tomatoes and green beans

Ingredients

4 serv.
  • dried pasta400g g
  • frozen fine green bean140g g
  • cherry tomato200g g

    halved

  • large pack parsley

    roughly chopped

  • bag rocket100g g
  • can tuna185g g

    in sunflower oil, drained but reserve the oil

  • zest and juice 1 lemon
  • can tuna185g g

    in spring water, drained

  • soured cream2 tbsp tbsp

    or cream cheese

Step-by-step instructions

  1. 1

    Cook the pasta in a large pan of salted boiling water, adding the green beans and cherry tomatoes for the final 3 mins of cooking time. Drain, reserving a mug of cooking water.

  2. 2

    Whizz the parsley, half the rocket, 3 tbsp of oil from the tuna, the lemon zest and juice, and some seasoning with enough of the reserved water in a food processor to form a spoonable pesto dressing.

  3. 3

    Tip the pasta and veg back into the pan and add the pesto, both cans of tuna and the soured cream or cream cheese, stirring through until hot. Remove from the heat and toss the rest of the rocket through the pasta.

Source: bbcgoodfood.com
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