Pumpkin and Tuna Pasta

Simple. Quick. Delicious. 

Having Italian grandparents my family have always been really big on eating pasta. Weirdly enough we don't really experiment that often, tomato sauce base or pesto sauce base, never plain simple good old pasta. After seeing my friend Sabine at lunch munching on tuna pasta that looked delicious but was apparently so easy to make I had to get the recipe from her. Tweaking it here and there I came up with this pumpkalisious pasta dish that was a perfect treat for when I got home from racing that night.

Simple Pumpkin and Tuna Pasta 

Ingredients

1-2 cups pumpkin, cut into small cubes

500g penne pasta

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 cloves of garlic, crushed

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Salt and pepper to taste

400g tin of cooked tuna

250g canned corn kernels

250g whole olives, kalamata or black

Extra olive oil, enough to coat all the cooked pasta

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius and line a baking tray with baking paper.
2. Fill a large pot with water about ¾ of the way.
3. Heat the pot over medium heat, add a handful of salt and allow to boil. 
4. Meanwhile on the prepared baking tray add pumpkin cubes, cinnamon, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Be sure that all the pumpkin cubes are coated.
5. Put the pumpkin in the preheated oven and roast for 20 minutes or until slightly tender.
6. When your pot of water is boiling add your pasta and stir immediately. Cook the penne until al dente. Drain and run over with cold running water. Set aside.
7. In the same pot that you cooked the pasta in heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat.
8. Add the garlic.
9. Once garlic cooked and oil is hot add your drained pasta and mix for 3 minutes allowing the   pasta to slightly crisp up.
10. Add corn, olives, tuna, and roasted pumpkin to the pot with the pasta and stir until combined.
11. Then stir in enough olive oil to coat your pasta completely, but not drench it.
12. Continue to stir for about 5 minutes.
13. Be sure your tuna, olives and corn are warm then turn off the heat and serve.

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- Grace

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