Salads and pasta with tuna. Cooking recipes

Tuna is a unique fish. Her meat contains essential for the human body fats omega-3, which help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. In addition, it is a low-calorie dish, and in terms of protein content and chemical composition, this fish is closer to beef. Therefore, pasta with tuna and a variety of salads should take one of the leading places in the diet of everyone.

In Russian supermarkets, you can usually buy a canned product. But if you can buy a chilled, then you need to start processing and cooking correctly.

First, let's look at how to tuna fish. Fish need to be gutted, but only then rinse the carcass. Next, remove the fins and head, cut along so that it is divided into layers. From the fillet make a variety of dishes, bake, fry, add to salads, from the head and bones cook soup.

Cooking the first dish is very simple. Bones and head put in cold water along with the onion and carrots. Cook the broth for forty minutes, constantly taking off the foam. Add cubes of five potatoes and a straw of carrots. Cook soup until cooked. Serve with chopped herbs.

Let us dwell in more detail on the preparation of pasta with tuna. You will need three hundred grams of fillet, which should be cut into medium pieces and put out in a deep saucepan. At this time, boil the aldente pasta (leaving enough solid), add to it fifty grams of butter, fish and a few Italian herbs (dry thyme and rosemary). Serve the dish immediately, sprinkle with grated finely parmesan.

Very tasty is the pasta with tuna and cherry tomatoes. To prepare the dish you need a can of canned tuna, nine tomatoes, a glass of pasta, a little vegetable oil, two cloves of garlic, salt and a variety of greens. Paste the pasta (as usual), flip it into a colander and mix with olive oil. In a frying pan, cut garlic very finely, fry it and add half of the cherry. Put also shredded herbs, salt and simmer the seasoning for fifteen minutes. Tuna in a jar with a fork and add to the sauce. Boil it for about five minutes. Next, put the pasta on plates and pour fish sauce. Pasta with tuna and tomatoes is ready. It turns out a very appetizing dish, which can be done within half an hour.

Unique in its taste is a salad with tuna in Italian. For cooking, you need to mix four large spoons of wine vinegar, half a glass of meat broth, two hundred grams of string beans, two onions, a can of white canned beans, two hundred grams of fried tuna, a little olive oil, a small spoonful of Dijon mustard, a little pepper and salt. Boil the pasta and drain it. Cook the beans until half cooked and chill with cold water. Tuna chop, chop onion semirings, with beans to drain all liquid. In order to make the sauce, mix the vinegar with mustard, butter, pepper and salt. Add a little broth. Combine all ingredients, fill with sauce and put in the refrigerator for an hour, so that the dish is insisted. If desired, you can serve it as a side dish.

Original taste qualities are salad with tuna and tomatoes. It will take three boiled eggs, two fleshy tomatoes, a can of tinned tuna, a bunch of parsley, a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise. Eggs should be grated on a large grater, cut into tomatoes in the form of small cubes, disassemble the fish to make small neat pieces. Make a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise, dressing the salad with sauce, stir and sprinkle with dense herbs.

Bon Appetit!