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Baked tuna pasta with olives and lemon

Name: Baked tuna pasta with olives and lemon
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 200 g Pasta; 160 g Canned tuna; 2 tbsp Olives; 1 Lemon; Basil; Salt and pepper; Hard cheese

Pasta with canned tuna, olives, lemon juice and zest, and basil, topped with cheese and baked for 5–10 minutes. Serves 2.

Slovak cuisine · Quick recipes in 35 minutes · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5–10 min
Total time: 15 min
Temperature: 180 °C (350 °F)
Servings: 2 servings
Difficulty: Easy

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Baked tuna pasta with olives and lemon is a quick meal made by tossing cooked pasta with a lemon juice and zest sauce. A little pasta cooking water and chopped olives go into the lemon base, followed by the pasta and tuna with its oil. The mixture is seasoned with basil, topped with hard cheese, and baked for 5–10 minutes at 180 °C (350 °F). It makes a quick lunch using pantry staples.

Instructions

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Cook the pasta in boiling salted water.
Add the lemon juice and zest to a skillet and warm over low heat. Add a little pasta cooking water and the chopped olives, season with salt and pepper, stir well, and simmer briefly.
Add the cooked pasta to the skillet, gently fold in the tuna along with the oil from the can, and season to taste with chopped basil.
Transfer the pasta to a small baking dish or divide it between two small baking dishes. Sprinkle generously with grated cheese and bake in an oven preheated to 180 °C (350 °F) for 5–10 minutes.

Tip: Choose tuna packed in oil rather than water—the oil from the can forms the base of the sauce. Fold it in gently to leave larger chunks in the pasta.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 596 kcal
Protein: 40 g
Carbohydrates: 81 g
of which sugars: 4.2 g
Fat: 13 g
of which saturates: 3.6 g
Fiber: 5.2 g
Salt: 2.4 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Zapekané cestoviny s tuniakom, olivami a citrónom