Thursday, 23 January 2014

Tuna Mayo Spaghetti


This is a recipe my dad makes and it's soooo. guuuuud. As usual, it's a very easy recipe and I made it myself (Of course, it will never be as good as my dad's T.T.). There aren't many steps and the ingredients are pretty easy to find even in Europe!
It's a wafu recipe, meaning it's a fusion between Europe and Japan (more specifically Italy and Japan here)! I love these kind of wafu recipes, especially when it involves spaghetti :P Oh and wafu pasta is always made with spaghetti... Don't ask me why :P I'm sure it's still delicious with other types of pasta but for me it has to be with spaghetti...

Anyways, hope you try making it!


Ingredients (3-4 nomsters):

  • 400-450g of spaghetti
  • 1 can of Tuna (no oil no nothing)
  • Couple of spring onions 
  • 1 onion
  • 4 table spoons of Japanese mayonnaise
  • Somen/Soba tsuyu
  • Wasabi (Optional)
  • Sea weed (Optional)
  • butter
  • salt and pepper


Preparation:

  1. Boil the water for the pasta
  2. In the meantime, cut the spring onion as thin as possible, you can use the photos as guide line :P Place them in a bowl in the meantime as you will only need them at the end.
  3. Cut the onion into large stripes. In any case, you don't have to be super thorough with the cutting ;) Yey!
  4. Before cooking the onion, open the can of tuna, and place it into a bowl. Add the Japanese mayonnaise (you can use normal mayonnaise of course, but the Japanese Kewpie Mayo has more flavour I think.) and mix well. I put 4 table spoons but you can also put more or less. It's up to you :). Add some pepper and a little bit of salt. Make sure not to add too much salt as the tsuyu is already quite salty. Set aside. 
  5. In a large pot, add a little bit of butter and cook the onion. 
  6. When the water is boiling cook your spaghetti. When they are cooked, drain them well and throw them (not literally... water might splash everywhere and you might burn yourself/make a mess) into the large pot that contains your onions. At this point, add somen/soba tsuyu. Just add enough so that it coats your spaghetti and mix well. 
  7. Place on to a plate with some onion. Add a spoon or two of the tuna mayo sauce, add the spring onion. Rip some sea weed into small pieces and wasabi! On the picture, the wasabi is in the middle but usually I just put some on the side of my plate and add some to every bite I take ;)
  8. You mix a little yourself and ready to nom nom nom....
I recommend using Japanese sea weed for this recipe (Korean/Chinese sea weed is also nice but they have a stronger smell/taste). 

Enjoy! :D



1 comment:

  1. This sounds yummy! I'm your mom's friend in the US. I look forward to more nommy posts from you!

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