Healthy Creamy Pasta Recipe
Ingredients
- 125 g spiral or bowtie pasta (3 cups cooked)
- 1 tbs plain flour
- 1 1/2 cups reduced-fat milk
- 185 g can tuna in spring water, drained
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1/2 cup basil leaves, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup low-fat cheese, grated
- pepper
Method
- Bring a saucepan full of water to the boil over medium heat.
- Add pasta, cover, and cook for 12 minutes or until soft.
- Strain the pasta, discarding the water. Return pasta to the pan.
- Add the flour and mix to coat the pasta.
- Add the milk and bring to the boil.
- Reduce the heat and cook, stirring, until sauce thickens.
- Add the tuna, peas and basil. Cook for a further 2 minutes.
- Add the cheese and cook until cheese has melted.
- Season with pepper.
- Serve warm.
Healthy tip!
Chilli, lemon and herbs add flavour - great alternatives to butter and salt!
Nutrition Information
| per serving | per 100g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 1224 kJ | 477 kJ |
| 293 Cal | 114 Cal | |
| Protein | 22.3 g | 8.7 g |
| Fat, total | 6.5 g | 2.5 g |
| — saturated | 3.6 g | 1.4 g |
| Carbohydrate | 32.7 g | 12.8 g |
| — sugars | 6.4 g | 2.5 g |
| Sodium | 153.5 mg | 59.8 mg |
| Fibre | 5.8 g | 2.3 g |
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Comments (1)
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I dont have tuna in pantry, so i use chicken breast. It is Delicious !
Martha G
Posted on: 22 May 21
