Name: Greek pasta, healthy and delicious
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 onion (sliced in strips); 2 teaspoons dark brown sugar; 3 cloves garlic (sliced thin); 400 grams diced tomatoes (canned); 2 teaspoons oregano (dry); 400 fusilli; ½ lemon (juice); 100 grams feta; 250 grams tuna; salt and pepper

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This Greek-style pasta is delicious, healthy, and made with tuna. A fresh tomato sauce, with flavorful herbs, covers the creamy pasta.

This healthy and delicious Greek pasta is made with tuna. A fresh tomato sauce with delicious herbs covers the creamy pasta. The tuna and feta give an extra flavor accent, with the lemon and oregano. This dish, easy to prepare is a winner!

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If the Fusilli sticks to much, add 1 tablespoon olive oil after cooking and draining to the pasta. Adding it to the cooking water won't help.
Add 2 teaspoons salt to your pasta cooking water. Pasta should be cooked in water as salt as the sea.

Substitutes

Fusilli can be substituted with Penne, Tagliatelle or Farfalle. Don't substitute it for Macaroni, because it's smaller and it will get an over structure.
If you can't get Feta, use white cheese (with herbs)

Delicious with

Warm pita bread and hummus. Or these pita bread with goat cheese and walnut dip

Budget friendly version

Substitute Fusilli with Penne (which is cheaper)
Use whole white cheese instead of Feta
Substitute the lemon with storebosugh lemon juice
Substitute brown sugar with regular sugar
Use 1 teaspoon garlic powder in stead of 3 cloves of garlic

The price of this budget friendly version will be €0.95 per person.

Storage

Cover the pasta and store up to 2 days in the refrigerator. The pasta is also delicious served as a pasta salad for lunch the next day.
You can freeze the pasta in an airtight container. This way you can store it up to 3 months.

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Greek pasta, healthy and delicious

Author: Andréa

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Total Time 25 mins

Mediterranean

5 of 3 votes

For 4 persons

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This delicious and healthy Greek pasta is made with tuna. A fresh tomato sauce, with flavorful herbs covers the creamy pasta.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion sliced in strips
2 teaspoons dark brown sugar
3 cloves garlic sliced thin
400 grams diced tomatoes canned
2 teaspoons oregano dry
400 fusilli
½ lemon juice
100 grams feta
250 grams tuna
salt and pepper

Instructions

Preheat a frying pan on high heat and pour in the oil.
Bake the onions, for about 3 minutes, add the sugar and garlic and stir and bake for another 2 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and oregano bring to a boil and turn the heat low. Simmer for 10 minutes
Cook the pasta according the manufacturers instructions.
Pour the lemon juice into the sauce.
Turn of the heat.
Stir the tuna through the sauce.
Crumble the feta on top.
Add salt and pepper at taste.
Serve the pasta with the sauce.

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