Rev. Peanut's Spaghetti Col Tonno
Spaghetti Col Tonno (or, spaghetti with tuna, if you like)...
Necessary Items:
About 500g of spaghetti (125g per human). Clearly, this'll serve 4 peeps.
250g of tinned tuna chunks. The stuff in oil as opposed to the stuff in brine.
4 or 5 cloves of the auld garlic.
Some olive oil. A lot, actually. Don't scrimp. Well, about an egg cup full. Unless you keep ostriches. Then less.
About 40g of capers. The non frolicing variety.
About 500ml of Passata. Or enchopulated tomatoes.
A couple of delicious chillies of your choice or about 1/2 a teaspoon of me hot sauce.
Salt and pepper according to your own personal cardiac requirements.
How to do it:
Roughly chop the auld garlic.
Heat the oil in a fry-me pan and chuck in the auld garlic to brown.
As the auld garlic is starting to turn colour add the passata and stir about a bit.
Simmer this delicious mixture for about ten minutes.
Chop the capers and chillies together. If you're alone, you'll need to chop both yourself.
Chuck 'em in to the delicious simmering mixture along with the salt & pepper.
Drain the tuna and chuck that in too and continue simmering for about another ten or fifteen minutes.
In a completely unrelated saucepan, bring some salted water to the boil and chuck in the spaghetti. Salting the water raises the boiling point and allows you to more easily achieve that much desired pasta status of "al dente". The higher boiling point cooks the outside of the pasta quickly, leaving the inside just that little bit crunchy, or, as we say in Itlee, with bite... This normally takes about 6 or 7 minutes. Check your packet, ooh, er, missus.
Drain the spaghetti in a spaghetti draining device.
Add to the delicious simmering mixture and toss it about a bit 'til it's all nicely mixed.
Serve and munch.
WARNING: This is probably the most delicious thing you will ever taste. Ever. For me, it surpasses even the Divine Bacon in its deliciousness and flavourability, and that's saying something.
DOGGY PEOPLE: This is also a very good meal to cook for your dogs every now and again. Just leave out the salt, pepper and chillies and you'll be grand. Yes, in answer to your next question, the auld garlic is fine for the mutts....
