Lemon Pasta Salad with Tuna ___

Lemon Pasta Salad with Tuna

Ingredients

For the Salad

  • 1 pound any small pasta cut you like
  • 8 ounces Italian tuna packed in olive oil
  • 1 medium red onion sliced
  • 1 cup Castelvetrano Green Olives from Sicily - Pitted - Partanna, halved
  • 1 jar Paolo's grilled peppers. sliced
  • 2 lemons juice only
  • 0.25 cup extra virgin olive oil (extra for drizzling on the freshly cooked pasta)
  • salt and fresh black pepper to taste

Directions

Get your tuna, olives, and peppers here.

Cook the pasta until al dente in salted boiling water. Drain in a colander and run under cold water to stop the cooking pasta. Toss with olive oil to prevent sticking. Allow the pasta to cool.

In a bowl, combine tuna, grilled peppers, olives and red onion. Add the lemon juice and oil, salt and pepper and toss.

Finally add the pasta and toss together once more adding more oil if needed.

Chill and serve with extra fresh black pepper and another drizzle of good EV olive oil.