Australian

Tuna Pasta Salad

Name: Tuna Pasta Salad
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 12 oz rotini pasta; 2 cans canned tuna; 1 cup cherry tomatoes; 1 cucumber; 1/4 red onion; 1/2 cup mayonnaise; 1 lemon; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Nathan @nathan_bbq

Tuna Pasta Salad is Australian home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

12 oz rotini pasta
2 cans canned tuna
1 cup cherry tomatoes
1 cucumber
1/4 red onion
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 lemon
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Boil the pasta according to the packet directions, then drain and rinse under cold water.
Combine the pasta with the drained tuna, halved cherry tomatoes, diced cucumber, and red onion in a large bowl.
Stir through the mayonnaise and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Season with salt and pepper and chill before serving.

Watch how to cook Tuna Pasta Salad

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Australian lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tuna Pasta Salad, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Aussie Garlic Bread
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Tuna Pasta Salad carries gluten, eggs, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tuna Pasta Salad
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Aussie Butter Chicken
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Aussie Butter Chicken
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	Aussie Butter Chicken
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 570 kcal
Protein: 28 g
Carbs: 64 g
Fat: 22 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 660 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tuna Pasta Salad takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.