Tuna sauce with tomatoes and garlic from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (page 180) by Marcella Hazan

  • canned Italian plum tomatoes
  • garlic
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  • Serves : 4-6

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    Can substitute macaroni, penne, or rigatoni pasta for spaghetti pasta.

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    Can substitute macaroni, penne, or rigatoni pasta for spaghetti pasta.

  • Pamsy on September 08, 2022

    I didn't expect much from this dish as there were very few ingredients, mainly tinned tomatoes and tuna. However it was more than the sum of its parts and will be repeated. Very handy store cupboard recipe.

  • TrishaCP on August 12, 2018

    Thanks to the notes, I also only used six ounces of tuna and that really worked for us. For tomatoes, I used a 14 oz can of fire-roasted tomatoes. As others have said, this is a great pantry meal and pretty flexible in terms of exact ingredients, but you do need the good quality tuna (I also used Ortiz).

  • kitchen_chick on August 06, 2018

    A third vote for using just 6oz of tuna - or increase the tomatoes. We used beautiful Ortiz tuna from Spain, and modified the recipe with a tablespoon-ish of small capers and a good squeeze of lemon juice (and left out some of the salt because of the capers). Ordinary tuna found in most American grocery stores cannot compare to the flavor of high quality tuna, and between the fab tuna and our modifications we found this quite delicious. I'm looking forward to taking leftovers to work for lunch.

  • lkgrover on January 24, 2018

    This is a good recipe for using up store-cupboard ingredients (and for those days when you don't want to go grocery shopping). I agree with Clcorbi about using the 6 oz canned tuna; 12 oz canned tuna would have been overwhelming.

  • clcorbi on July 20, 2017

    Not my favorite sauce I've tried from this book, but still tasty and very easy to prepare. I decided to use only 6oz of tuna (because that's what I had), but keep the other ingredient quantities the same. The tomatoes reduced down quite a bit during their 25 min simmer, and I found the half-quantity of tuna to actually be the perfect amount. The full 12oz would have resulted in more tuna than tomato, which seems odd to me. At any rate, I probably won't repeat this, but it is very weeknight friendly.

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