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Wholewheat tuna tomato pasta

Wholewheat pasta in a quick tomato sauce with tuna, spinach and basil.

Bowl of wholewheat pasta in tomato sauce with tuna, cherry tomatoes, spinach and basil.
520 kcal per servingPrep time: 20 minServings: 1Dinner20 minutesPantry staples

Ingredients

  • 75 g dry wholewheat pasta
  • 90 g tuna in spring water, drained
  • 180 g tomato passata
  • 1 handful spinach
  • 6 cherry tomatoes
  • 1 tsp olive oil
  • Basil

Method

  1. Cook the pasta until tender.
  2. Warm olive oil, passata and tomatoes; fold in spinach and tuna.
  3. Toss with pasta and finish with basil.

Calories in context

At 520 kcal per serving, this dish is about 26% of a 2000 kcal daily reference intake — the standard reference amount used on nutrition labels, not a personal target.

Eaten as the evening meal in a three-meal day, it is one part of a day whose real total depends on your own body, activity level and goals, not on any single recipe. For a calorie range that reflects those, rather than a generic reference figure, the tools below can help.

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