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Spaghetti with Tuna and Mushrooms

6 Servings

40 minutes

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Spaghetti alla carrettiera (“in the style of cart drivers”) is a simple pasta dish easily prepared from the Italian larder. Whereas the Sicilian version is said to be made with garlic, oil, chili, possibly cheese, and finished with breadcrumbs, the Roman version features tomatoes, tuna and dried porcini mushrooms. We used the latter as inspiration for this recipe. But instead of porcini, we cook fresh cremini mushrooms until they are nicely browned, which concentrates and deepens their flavor. White mushrooms work, too, if that’s what’s available. Olive oil–packed tuna is traditional for this dish and the oil often is added to the sauce to enrich it, as we’ve done here.

6

Servings

40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1

    pound spaghetti OR linguine

  • Kosher salt and ground black pepper

Directions

Reviews
Tiffany A.
December 4, 2023
Delicious and easy!
Yummy!
Candice O.
November 2, 2023
tasty weeknight meal
Made it as written, albeit with wild caught not Italian tuna. Really nice. I'm looking forward to the leftovers. (We were 2 tonight.)
Keyah H.
September 17, 2023
So Good!!
I made this for my boyfriend, but even though we omitted the tuna, it was still such an amazing sauce!

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