Tuna Carbonara Filipino-Style

This Simple Tuna Carbonara Filipino-Style or “Pinoy Style Tuna Carbonara” is a quick dish that’s made with easy to find and affordable ingredients like canned tuna, cream of mushroom or cream of mushroom powder and water, butter or margarine, garlic, onions, mushrooms, evaporated milk, all purpose cream, salt, pepper, grated cheese, then mixed with already cooked-al dente pasta. This canned tuna carbonara dish is great for those who want a quick satisfying lunch or dinner after a hard’s day’s work.

Tuna Carbonara Filipino Style Recipe :

Ingredients

• 500 grams pasta
• 2 cans tuna in oil
• 1 packet ( 35 grams ) cream of mushroom powder
• ½ cup water ( to dissolve the powder )
• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 3 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 1 medium onion ( chopped )
• 1 cup canned sliced mushrooms ( strained )
• 1 can ( 300 ml ) evaporated milk
• 1 pouch ( 250 ml ) all purpose cream
• Salt and pepper to taste
• ½ cup grated cheese

Steps:

1. Prepare the sauce; strain the canned tuna and set aside. In another bowl, mix cream of mushroom powder and water, then set aside. 
2. In a pan, melt butter or margarine then saute garlic and onions. Add in tuna and cook for a few minutes before mixing in the mushrooms.
3. Pour in evaporated milk, all purpose cream, and cream of mushroom. Bring to a boil at low heat. Once simmering, add in salt, pepper, and cheese. Mix until the cheese melts.
4. Cook the pasta in salt water. Cook until al dente. Once the pasta is cooked, place this into the sauce and mix well. Garnish with cheese on top before serving.

How to make this tuna carbonara with mushroom recipe ?

Want a creamy and flavorful pasta on a budget? Then this Pinoy version of the classic carbonara is for you! A great way to make an easy and filling pasta dish to serve at get-togethers, small gatherings, special occasions, or even at fiestas. It so quick to make with ingredients that you’re sure to almost have in your pantry or be found in your nearest grocery or even sari-sari store ( small all around grocery store around neighborhoods )

This all starts with the tuna carbonara filipino-style ingredients like canned tuna that are strained to remove any of the excess oil. Set aside to prepare a bowl of cream of mushroom or cream of mushroom soup powder that’s been diluted with a bit of water to turn into a watery paste or slurry. Set this aside as well to prepare the base sauce made of melted butter or margarine melted, then saute the garlic and onions until aromatic before placing in the strained tuna, heat this up before adding in the mushrooms that are canned or fresh sliced into bite sized pieces. Pour in evaporated milk, all purpose cream, and cream of mushroom, then bring everything into a boil at low heat. After, give this a taste and add salt and pepper if needed. Thicken the sauce up with some shredded cheese. Mix until the cheese melts and set this aside. Cook pasta while you thicken up the sauce. Once al dente, place these in the sauce pan and mix till the noodles are well coated with the sauce. Serve this as is, garnished with more cheese, top with parsley, or serve with a side of garlic bread.

Questions :

• Tuna Carbonara Calories

For a serving of 100 grams there are astound 108 calories.

• Additional Tuna Carbonara Ingredients
  • To make “Tuna Carbonara Filipino-style with Cream” without the ‘cream’ or ‘dairy, use coconut cream or coconut milk. You can also blend strained canned white beans and mix this into the sauce until it thickens.
  • Upgrade your simple “Creamy Tuna Carbonara” by adding bacon bits, or bits and pieces of shrimps, and other seafood like shellfish, even shredded crab.
  • Or make this tuna carbonara pasta recipe a bit healthier by adding pieces of vegetables like carrots, potatoes, basil, or spinach, bits of leafy vegetables or tomatoes.

Other Yummy Tuna Recipes!

• Cheesy Tuna Lumpia
• Tuna Balls
• Tuna Tofu Sisig ( tuna mixed with chillies and aromatics, served in a sizzling plate )
• Tuna Kimbap ( Korean tuna-sushi )
• Tuna Patties with Eggplant
• Tuna with Cabbage and Sayote
• Sweet and Sour Canned Tuna

Tuna Carbonara Filipino Style Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 500 gramo pasta
• 2 lata ng tuna in oil
• 1 pakete ( 35 gramo ) cream of mushroom powder
• ½ tasa tubig ( pang tunaw ng powder )
• 2 kutsarang mantikilya o margarin
• 3 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 1 sibuyas ( tinadtad )
• 1 tasa hiniwang kabute galing sa lata ( sinala )
• 1 lata ( 300 ml ) evaporated milk
• 1 ( 250 ml ) all purpose cream
• Asin at paminta panlasa 
• ½ tasa ginadgad na keso

Paano Lutuin :

1. Ihanda ang sarsa; salain ang mga tuna at itabi. Sa ibang mangkok. Haluin ang cream of mushroom powder at tubig, itabi.
2. Sa kawali, itunaw ang mantikilya at margarin at lutuin ang mga bawang at sibuyas. Haluan ng tuna, lutuin ng ilang minuto bago haluan ng kabute.
3. Ibuhos dito ang evaporated milk, all purpose cream, at hinalong cream of mushroom. Pakuluin sa mababang init. Pagkakulo, lagyan ng asin, paminta, at keso. Haluin hanggang matunaw ang keso.
4. Lutuin ang pasta sa tubig na may asin. Lutuin hanggang al dente. Pagluto na ito, ilugar sa sarsa at haluin ng mabuti. Dekorasyonan ng keso bago ihanda.