Tuna curry with pasta
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Salad
- Easy
- Serves 5
A tasty, spicy fish dish served with fusilli pasta and madras paste
Ingredients
For the tuna curry
- Tuna
- 1 onion (finely diced)
- Garlic (2 cloves, crushed)
- Madras spice paste (half a jar)
- 2 tomatoes (diced into chunks)
- Chilli or scotch bonnet (finely diced)
- Fusilli pasta ( half a packet)
- Water (1and a half litres)
- Sunflower oil (3 tbsp)
- Mushrooms or aubergine (diced into chunks)
- Salt/ pepper (pinch)
- Ground cumin (2 tsp)
For the salad
- Tuna
- 1 onion (finely diced)
- Garlic (2 cloves, crushed)
- Madras spice paste (half a jar)
- 2 tomatoes (diced into chunks)
- Chilli or scotch bonnet (finely diced)
- Fusilli pasta ( half a packet)
- Water (1and a half litres)
- Sunflower oil (3 tbsp)
- Mushrooms or aubergine (diced into chunks)
- Salt/ pepper (pinch)
- Ground cumin (2 tsp)
- Lettuce
- Cucumber
- Tomato
- White wine vinegar
Method
- STEP 1Firstly, put mushrooms or aubergine under the grill. Fry onions and garlic in a deep frying pan for a couple of minutes. Stir in the tomatoes and cook for about 2 minutes.
- STEP 2Add spice paste to pan and stir for about 5 mins until onions are golden brown and soft. Add tuna and stir around. Season with a little salt, pepper, and ground cumin.
- STEP 3Add mushrooms or aubergine to the pan and then add a small dash of water, and stir around. Then add more water, fill just under brim of pan. Turn down the fire and leave to simmer for 15 mins.
- STEP 4Pour pasta in large sauce pan and full pan with water so that all pasta in covered. Turn the fire on a medium or high heat and boil pasta for 15-20 mins.
- STEP 5For the salad, place cucumber and tomato at the bottom of a large salad bowl. Place lettuce around the bowl. Drizzle vinegar on the salad to give rich flavour.
- STEP 6To finish, put portion of pasta on a plate or bowl, pile 2 tbsp of tuna curry on top of the pasta to serve.
