The recipe for tuna sauce, a tasty sauce to taste with pasta!
Preservation is a prerogative of all the kitchens of the south and the Neapolitan dispensations are full of jars full of condiments and very unique side dishes. Speaking of condiments, the tuna sauce, an exceptional and tasty sauce, is one of the protagonists of the dispensation of the Neapolitan grandmothers.
Always ready if necessary with his fish flavor, olives and capers It will be perfect on some good cooked pasta at the moment.
You must know that it can be kept in the pantry even for a few months if well closed in appropriately sterilized jars that will have undergone vacuum packing.
Below, the recipe to follow!
Ingredients
- 300 gr fresh tuna fillet
- 200 gr cherry tomatoes
- 1 clove of garlic
- 50 ml extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 20 gr pitted black olives
- 10 gr desalted capers
- a sprig of parsley
Let's cook the fish
To prepare a tasty tuna sauce to be preserved even in a jar, start by placing a pan on medium heat and brown thefinely chopped garlic, or even crushed with the appropriate kitchen tool, and extra virgin olive oil. Then add the fillet of tuna cut into small pieces.
Complete the sauce
Cook the fish for at least 2-3 minutes before dipping it in the meat sauce, from which we will have picked up part of the tuna to be added at a later time. Add the well-washed tomatoes, cut into chunks and season with salt and pepper.
Let thicken the sauce for at least 15 minutes, after which you will need to add the previously browned tuna chunks again. Leave to cook for another 2 minutes, adding salt and pepper to taste, and add the last to the tasty sauce. olive and of capers.
The dusting of well-minced parsley will be inevitable
Cook's note
The tuna sauce so prepared can be used at the moment as a condiment for pasta, but also added as a side dish to a baked fish.
