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To make this little can of albacore come to life, I created my version of Italian tuna pasta that I ate in Florence during my seminary days. I’ve made it for several other people and they say it’s definitely the opposite of penitential! But, it’s still in the Lenten rulebook for fasting and it sure beats the texture and blandness of those sandwiches!
Ingredients: Serves 1 portion
1 cup of dried fusili pasta, boiled and cooked al dente
1 can of albacore tuna
1 Tbs olive oil
1 clove fresh garlic, minced
1 Tbs fresh capers
½ tsp green peppercorns
½ tsp kosher salt
¼ tsp black pepper
¼ cup tomato sauce
Instructions:
Sauté garlic in pan of hot olive oil. Add tuna (including the liquid in the can), capers, and peppercorns. Mix until tuna is warm. Add tomato sauce and let simmer for 1 minute. Add pasta and allow some of the pasta water to help “cream” the sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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Posted by Karen B on February 25th, 2010 at 11:02 pm.Sounds good, but sadly, just don’t like and can’t stomach hot tuna. Now if someone could come up with a zesty Italianate cold tuna dish, say with Romas, and EVOO, and maybe a nice pesto, then we’d be in business!
Posted by Rommel John Miller on February 26th, 2010 at 11:06 am.Hi….Happy Day to you!! We watched Ft.Leo on the Throwdown with Bobby Flay……It was the most fun show we have seen in awhile….And Ft.Leo is a winner in our book….We hope to be able to watch more of him…..hopefully on Food Network!!
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Posted by Judy on March 1st, 2010 at 9:06 am.Hi again….I copied the Friday Tuna Sandwich and will make it during Lent….I know my family will really enjoy it…..Thanks to Ft.Leo…He is very inventive.
Posted by Judy on March 1st, 2010 at 9:07 am.Fr. Leo,
Posted by Fr. Leo on March 3rd, 2010 at 9:28 am.I want to make the Italian Tuna pasta but have a question regarding the green peppercorns. Are they dried peppercorns or packed in liquid?
Thanks,
Rose Ann