Mambo Italiano

My mother told me about a meal that her grandmother used to make for her. Pasta with tuna in a red sauce. I was like ummmm what? I like tuna fish, but in red sauce? Then I was like you know what, that sounds good with Shrimp Flavor Top Ramen. So I decided to make it. Basically, I'd be saving on the pasta by subbing it with Ramen noodles and probably getting a great meal, so not trying it, would be blasphemous. I will call this dish:

Tuna Fish with an Italian Twist


Here is what you will need:

The usual suspects:
Vegetable Oil
Red Pepper Flakes
Garlic Powder
1/2 cup of water

Plus

Marinara Sauce ( I got the store brand why? Because it was like $1.50...DUH. )
1 can of chunk light tuna fish in water
1 packet of Shrimp Flavor Top Ramen
2 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
1/2 cup of onions, roughly chopped
1 medium-sized sauce pan

Coat the sauce pan with vegetable oil and heat on medium. Toss in the onions and be sure to pay attention to them so you don't do what i did last time and burn them!

Now, to the ramen. Like usual, put the ramen in a bowl, and add 1/2 cup of water. Cook on high for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. When finished, take a fork and mash the ramen up so all of it is saturated in the water.

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Add only about 1/2 the packet of shrimp flavoring. It is a strong flavor and you only want to have the noodles taste a little like it, as the tuna fish will add the most flavor. Once you have stirred the powder in, drain the noodles. 

The onions should be a bit translucent by now, so add your garlic and saute. Only for a little because you do not want the garlic to be toasted. 

bad picture, sorry. you don't care though...right?

Once the garlic has cooked for a minute, add the marinara sauce and stir, lower the heat and let simmer for a couple of minutes. 

Open the can of tuna fish and instead of draining the water into to sink, drain the tuna water onto the noodles and toss the noodles so that the tuna water covers all of the noodles. Let sit for a minute and then drain the noodles once more. You want to make sure most, if not all, of the liquid has drained.

Take the tuna fish and add it into the sauce pan with the marinara, and stir. Stirring will chop the tuna fish up into the sauce, which is what you want. Then let the completed heat up for a minute.

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To this ( another bad picture, I promise, I'm working on it! )

Once the sauce has heated up, pour over your noodles. I like to add some garlic powder and red pepper flakes at the end for some extra flavor. 

Like always, enjoy now or later. 

Until next time, ramen on.