Pasta salad with tuna and peppers recipe

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Pasta salad with tuna and peppers
  • healthy
  • Low-fat
  • healthy
Serves4
SkillEasy
Preparation Time10 mins
Cooking Time20 mins
Total Time30 mins
Five A DayOne
Cost RangeCheap
Nutrition Per PortionRDA
Calories376 Kcal19%
Sugar6.4 g7%
Fat12.2 g17%
Saturated Fat7.7 g39%
Salt0.5 gRow 4 - Cell 2
Protein20.1 g40%
Carbohydrates45.3 g17%
Salt0.5 gRow 7 - Cell 2

This pasta salad with tuna and peppers is packed with chunky tuna, diced peppers, spring onions, and fennel shavings in a creamy mustard dressing.

This simple tuna and pasta dish takes just 20 minutes to cook and serves four. We’ve used pasta shells in this recipe but you could easily use other pasta shapes instead including penne or fusilli.

Ingredients

  • 225g/8oz pasta shells
  • 1 x 185g tin of tuna, drained
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 red and 1 yellow pepper, seeded and diced small
  • 4 spring onions, finely sliced
  • 1 small fennel bulb, trimmed and thinly sliced (reserve fronds)
  • 2tsp Dijon mustard
  • 5tbsp créme fraîche
  • A good squeeze lemon juice
  • Fennel fronds for decoration

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Method

  1. Cook pasta shells in plenty of boiling salted water until just tender. Drain and refresh in cold water.
  2. Transfer to a bowl. Add the pepper dice, spring onions, tuna chunks and fennel shavings.
  3. For the dressing, spoon the mustard into a bowl and add the crème fraîche, lemon juice and seasoning. Mix well, then pour over the pasta and toss well to coat. Serve decorated with fennel fronds.

Top tips for making pasta salad with tuna and peppers

If you’re not a fan of mustard, you could leave this out of the recipe or you could opt for wholegrain mustard instead, which isn’t as strong or fiery.

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Jessica Dady
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Jessica Dady is Food Editor at GoodtoKnow and has over 12 years of experience as a digital editor, specialising in all things food, recipes, and SEO. From the must-buy seasonal food hampers and advent calendars for Christmas to the family-friendly air fryers that’ll make dinner time a breeze, Jessica loves trying and testing various food products to find the best of the best for the busy parents among us. Over the years of working with GoodtoKnow, Jessica has had the privilege of working alongside Future’s Test Kitchen to create exclusive videos - as well as writing, testing, and shooting her own recipes. When she’s not embracing the great outdoors with her family at the weekends, Jessica enjoys baking up a storm in the kitchen with her favourite bakes being chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes, and a tray of gooey chocolate brownies