Name: Penne with Fresh Tuna and a Saffron Cream Sauce (Penne al Tonno e Zafferano)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3–4 sprigs flat-leaf Italian parsley; 2 tablespoons butter; About 20 saffron strands; 1 pound penne; 2 medium cloves garlic; Salt; ¾ pound fresh tuna; Freshly ground black pepper; ¾ cup heavy cream

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2009

About

Saffron and seafood go very well together and I find fresh tuna is particularly well suited to the delicate flavor of saffron. I prefer the taste of saffron in strands rather than powdered. To extract its flavor, its necessary to let the saffron steep in the hot cream.

Ingredients

¾ cup heavy cream
About 20 saffron strands
3–4 sprigs

Method

Put the heavy cream in a small saucepan. Crumble the saffron strands between your fingers into the pan. Cover and place over very low heat.
Fill a pot for the pasta with about 6 quarts of water, place over high heat, and bring to a boil.
Finely chop enough parsley to measure about 1 tablespoon. Cut the tuna into ½-inch dice.
When the water f