Tuna Cabonara

I love cream-based pasta dishes. I haven't really cooked one 'til now. Yup! This is the first, ever!

BEWARE! This dish is suitable for cream and cheese lovers.

By the way, yes... this is also my recipe- meaning I just thought of it. Haha!

Moving forward...

200 g of Spaghetti pasta
oil
salt
butter
1/2 cup of water
200 g instant Carbonara sauce (I used Del Monte)
195 g of button mushrooms (sliced-I used Jolly)
2 tsp of pepper (powdered)
2 tsp of dried basil
1 medium onion (minced)
garlic (crushed)
a can of plain tuna (unless you'd want it to be spicy)
Parmesan cheese (you can also use cheddar, whichever works for you)

Pasta:

- Boil a pot of water (enough for the pasta)
- Once it's boiling, put the pasta in and add a pinch of salt and oil (use the oil's bottle cap to measure)
- Mix the pasta every once in a while to make sure they don't stick together.

TIP: For you to know if the pasta is really cooked, carefully get a string of pasta and cut it in half, if there's a white dot in the middle, it means it's still raw.

Sauce:

- Melt the butter in the pan (depends on how much butter you'd want to use, I didn't use much for this recipe)
- Saute the garlic (I'm not a garlic lover so I crushed it for easier removal later)
- Mix the onions, mushrooms, tuna and pepper in.
- Let it simmer for 3 minutes.
- Before I added the Carbonara sauce, I removed the garlic. You may choose to mince it, instead of just crushing it, and to not remove it. I don't really like garlic. But again, it depends on how you want to do it.
- Add the cheese and water and be very patient in mixing the sauce. The cheese will melt and stick to the pan so you have to be very careful or it'll easily burn. Do this for about 3-4 minutes.

Just put it on a plate, take a shot of it and post a shoutout on your facebook page (haha, just kidding!).

This makes 4-5 servings.

It's really easy! I guess it's because I used instant sauce but what the heck! It tastes the same (even better!- I think) and it took me less than 10 minutes to make the sauce.

I didn't add cheese before eating since I used about 2 cups of Parmesan to the sauce. This dish is so creamy! The tuna and mushrooms added great texture. I originally thought of only using mushrooms but remembering what my boyfriend said about my Spicy Spaghetti dish, I added the tuna in for the "meat aspect"- whatchamacallit.

This dish costs less than 150 pesos and is great for small gatherings.