This Weeknight Wonder Rigatoni with Tuna, Fennel, Lemon & Olives is a fresh and flavorful pasta dish from Odette Williams' Simple Pasta cookbook. Perfect for a quick, yet elegant weeknight meal.
Fishwife Albacore Tuna
This Weeknight Wonder Rigatoni with Tuna, Fennel, Lemon & Olives is a fresh and flavorful pasta dish from Odette Williams' Simple Pasta cookbook. Perfect for a quick, yet elegant weeknight meal.
Fishwife Albacore Tuna
- • Weeknight Wonder Rigatoni with Tuna, Fennel, Lemon & Olives
- • Find more delicious pasta recipes in Odette's new cookbook, Simple Pasta: Pasta Made Easy. Life Made Better.
- • Store-bought pasta: 14 ounces dried rigatoni, penne, farfalle, garganelli
- • 1 lemon
- • 1⁄4 teaspoon kosher salt
- • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus 1 cup
- • 1 small fennel bulb, shaved or thinly sliced
- • 3 shallots, finely diced
- • 5 garlic cloves, slivered
- • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds, coarsely chopped
- • 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- • Freshly ground black pepper
- • 2 tins of Fishwife Albacore Tuna
- • 1⁄3 cup pitted green olives, halved
- • 4 cups loosely packed baby arugula
- • Shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano for serving
- Peel the lemon, avoiding the white pith, and slice the peel into thin slivers. Juice the lemon and set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine the lemon juice, salt, and 1 tablespoon olive oil and stir to incorporate. Add the shaved fennel and set aside to marinate. In a large heavy-bottomed frying pan over medium-low heat, warm 1⁄4 cup of the olive oil, then add the shallots and sauté for about 4 minutes. Turn the heat to very low; stir in the remaining 3⁄4 cup olive oil, lemon peel slivers, garlic, fennel seeds, and red pepper flakes; season with black pepper; and gently infuse for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the tuna and olives and warm through, breaking apart the tuna with a fork.
- While the olive oil is infusing, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until al dente, according to package instructions. Using a large spider or slotted spoon, transfer the pasta to the tuna mixture. Add the arugula and about 1⁄2 cup of the pasta water to the mixture and stir gently to combine. Serve the pasta with the marinated fennel and Parmigiano.
- TIP Substitute a couple tablespoons of the tuna oil for the extra-virgin olive oil if you want to double down on the tuna flavor.
Fishwife Albacore Tuna
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