Tuna Fennal Pasta Salad

Total Time: 24 mins Preparation Time: 24 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces uncooked penne tube shaped pasta (uncooked)
• 1 (7 7/8 ounce) jar solid tuna packed in oil
• 1 lemon
• 1 fuji apple (sliced)
• 1 small fennel bulb, with stalks
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and fat.
• 2 drain pasta over a bowl, reserving 1/2 cup liquid, and rinse pasta in cold water, and drain.
• 3 drain tuna, reserving 2 tablespoons oil.
• 4 grate 2 teaspoons rind from lemon, and squeeze 3 tablespoons juice.
• 5 combine reserved oil, rind, and juice in a large bowl, and stir with a whisk.
• 6 add pasta to oil mixture tossing to coat.
• 7 fold in tuna, and apple. remove fronds from fennel bulb, and finely chop fronds to measure 3 tablespoons.
• 8 remove and discard stalks. thinly slice fennal bulb, stir fronds and sliced fennel into pasta mixture.
• 9 add reserved pasta liquid, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, tossing to coat pasta salad evenly.