Tuna Pesto Pasta  with Canned Tuna

Tuna Pesto Pasta

This tuna pesto pasta with arugula spinach pesto uses canned tuna for a quick and simple weeknight pasta dinner.

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Ingredients walnuts garlic Parmesan arugula spinach lemon olive oil pasta canned tuna

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Pesto comes from Italian "pestare" meaning "to pound." Use a food processor with this arugula spinach pesto for a quick weeknight meal!

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Pick a short, chunky pasta for this tuna pesto pasta recipe. You want it to get coated with pesto and hold the tuna.

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Traditionally, Italians don't add Parmesan to seafood pastas. So you can skip the Parmesan if you're a rule follower!

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Leftover pesto freezes perfectly. Add pesto to eggs or use it as a sandwich spread, a base for pizza, or even in a babka.

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This one-pot pasta with ricotta and lemon is quick, easy, cheesy, and very lemony. And the one pot means less time spent cleaning up.

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This orzo pesto salad is a mashup between a pesto pasta salad with orzo and a Caprese.

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It's classic spaghetti and meatballs with a marinara sauce. Need I say more?

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This fig bacon jam pasta has a rare balance of sweet and salty, creamy and crispy.

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Make this sausage ragu on a Sunday afternoon while you read a book, make a loaf of crusty bread, and sip a glass of wine.

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Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ugly Duckling Bakery

This tuna pesto pasta with arugula spinach pesto uses canned tuna for a quick and simple weeknight pasta dinner.

Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ugly Duckling Bakery

Ingredients walnuts garlic Parmesan arugula spinach lemon olive oil pasta canned tuna

Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ugly Duckling Bakery

Pesto comes from Italian "pestare" meaning "to pound." Use a food processor with this arugula spinach pesto for a quick weeknight meal!

Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ugly Duckling Bakery

Pick a short, chunky pasta for this tuna pesto pasta recipe. You want it to get coated with pesto and hold the tuna.

Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ugly Duckling Bakery

Traditionally, Italians don't add Parmesan to seafood pastas. So you can skip the Parmesan if you're a rule follower!

Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ugly Duckling Bakery

Leftover pesto freezes perfectly. Add pesto to eggs or use it as a sandwich spread, a base for pizza, or even in a babka.

Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ugly Duckling Bakery

This one-pot pasta with ricotta and lemon is quick, easy, cheesy, and very lemony. And the one pot means less time spent cleaning up.

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Ugly Duckling Bakery

This orzo pesto salad is a mashup between a pesto pasta salad with orzo and a Caprese.

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Ugly Duckling Bakery

It's classic spaghetti and meatballs with a marinara sauce. Need I say more?

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Ugly Duckling Bakery

This fig bacon jam pasta has a rare balance of sweet and salty, creamy and crispy.

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Ugly Duckling Bakery

Make this sausage ragu on a Sunday afternoon while you read a book, make a loaf of crusty bread, and sip a glass of wine.

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