Name: Penne with Tuna
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 medium potatoes; 2 tbsp salted capers, rinsed small bunch of basil, or 100 g baby rocket leaves; 20 small black olives; sea salt; freshly ground black pepper; 500 g penne or rigatoni; 300 g canned tuna in olive oil; 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 2002

About

Cook little cubes of potato in the same pot as the pasta, and they’ll be soft and lush by the time they hit the tuna and caper sauce. If you need an extra flavour hit, add a finely chopped red chilli with the olives.

Ingredients

4 medium potatoes
500 g penne or rigatoni
300

Method

Peel the potatoes and chop into 1 cm cubes. Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil, add the pasta and potatoes and cook together until tender, around 10 minutes depending on the pasta.

Drain the tuna, reserving the oil. Heat the olive oil in a pan, and add the tuna, olives and capers. Toss well until everything is hot.

Drain the cooked pasta and potatoes and add to the sa