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Creamy Tuna Pasta with White Wine
An Easy Pasta Dish with a Rich White Sauce
🍽️ 2 servings Prep 5 min. Cook 15 min. Total 20 min. ⭐ Easy

A can of tuna, spring onion and cream become a quick, flavorful sauce. Finish cooking the pasta in the pan so it comes together with the sauce.

The Story Behind the Recipe

This was one of the first recipes I learned to cook, at around 13. My mother taught me this dish alongside smoked salmon pasta, so both belong to my earliest memories of cooking.

I enjoyed it then and still do. It is simple, quick and made with accessible ingredients. Tuna flavors the sauce, white wine adds aroma and cream brings everything together.

When extra oil is needed, I prefer a neutral one so the delicate flavors stand out. Oil-packed tuna often retains enough oil after draining that very little extra is necessary.

Try my Smoked Salmon and Mushroom Pasta too.

The Technique

  • Drain the tuna, whether packed in oil or water.
  • Keep the heat gentle after adding cream.
  • Use only enough pasta for generous sauce coverage.
Ingredients

  • Pasta: approximately 250 g / 8.8 oz

  • Tuna: 1 can, drained

  • Cream: 200 ml / approximately ¾ cup plus 1 tbsp

  • Spring onion: chopped, to preference

  • White wine: a splash

  • Sunflower or another neutral oil: a little, if needed

  • Salt

  • Black pepper

  • Grated cheese: optional

Steps

Pasta and Sauce

  1. Cook the pasta in salted water until slightly underdone. Reserve some cooking water.

  2. Sauté the spring onion in a little neutral oil, adjusting the amount if the tuna retains plenty of oil.

  3. Add the tuna, stir briefly and deglaze with white wine.

  4. Season and let the sharp wine aroma mellow.

  5. Add the cream and lower the heat.

Finishing

  1. Add the pasta and finish cooking it in the sauce.

  2. Toss until coated, adding a little reserved pasta water if necessary.

  3. Add grated cheese if desired and serve immediately.

Tips and Secrets

  1. The suggested pasta quantity makes approximately two servings.

  2. Add pasta gradually so there is enough sauce.

  3. Tuna packed in either oil or water works well.

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