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Pasta with Tuna, Fresh Tomatoes, Garlic & Olives by Claire Birch

Ingredients—serves 2
 
250g pasta shapes
1 tin/jar line-caught tuna
8-10 ripe tomatoes chopped
3-4 cloves of garlic
Olive oil
100g pitted green or black olives—chopped
Handful chopped flat leaved parsley
Salt & pepper to taste
Grated parmesan or Lincolnshire poacher
Optional— capers
Salad
 
Method
 
Set salted water to boil for pasta
Peel and slice garlic cloves finely
Fry in plenty of olive oil until golden
Add chopped tomatoes, olives, tablespoonful of capers if used and cook over medium heat until tomatoes break down.
Get pasta cooking.
Add tuna to sauce, stir to combine, but don’t cook too hard any more.
Add generous handful of flat leaved parsley to sauce.
Drain pasta and add to pan with sauce in it.
Serve with steamed runner beans/ green salad/wilted chard
and plenty of grated Parmesan or Poacher cheese.

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