Quick and easy family pasta recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has tuna, pine nut, lemon, parsley, breadcrumb, egg, spaghetti and sauce.
Italian tuna balls
Course: Quick and easy family pasta
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Spaghetti: 400g spaghetti
- Egg: 1 egg, beaten
- Parsley: small handful parsley leaves, roughly chopped
- Tuna: 2 160g cans of tuna in sunflower or olive oil, drained (reserve a little oil)
- Lemon: freshly grated zest 1 lemon
- Breadcrumb: 50g fresh breadcrumb
- Pine Nut: small handful of pine nuts
- Sauce: 500g jar pasta sauce
Directions
- Flake the tuna into a bowl, then tip in the pine nuts, lemon zest, parsley, breadcrumbs and egg. Season and mix together with your hands until completely combined. Roll the mix into 12 walnut-size balls. Put a large pan of salted water on to boil, then cook the spaghetti according to pack instructions.
- Heat a little of the tuna oil in a large non-stick frying pan, then fry the tuna balls for 5 mins, turning every minute or so until completely golden. Drain on kitchen paper. Heat the tomato sauce, then toss together with the pasta and tuna balls.
