Serves 4 as a main course.
1 lb spaghetti or tagliatelle (really, any type of pasta will do)
1 onion finely chopped
1 tin button mushrooms (from Lidl)
3 tbs. olive oil
2 cloves garlic
3 rashers of bacon
14oz tin of chopped tomatoes
3oz tinned tuna fish
1 tbsp dried Oregano
Heat the oil and add the chopped garlic and onion.
When the garlic begins to change colour add the bacon cut into small squares.
When the fat begins to melt from the bacon add the tin of tomatoes and the oregano
After 5 minutes, add the drained mushrooms.
After 15 minutes on a low heat add the well-drained and flaked tuna. (During this 15 mins, boil the water for the pasta)
Cook gently for another 8 minutes.
During this final 8 minutes, cook the pasta (dried pasta takes roughly 8 mins.
Drain the pasta, turn into a heated serving dish and stir in the mushroom sauce, mixing well.
You might think bacon and tuna together sound odd, but when it's cooked, the flavours all blend together very nicely!
I cook this at least once a week, and because there's only the two of us, we can really pig-out on it ... it's lovely, and uses pretty much everything you'd already have in the cupboard (except maybe the muzzies, which you could leave out if you wanted)
Try it, you'll never cook another pasta dish ... Naz x