This One-Pan Orzo with Tuna & Tomatoes is what simple and delicious food is all about. Made with the most basic pantry staples, easy to make and all done in just 20 minutes. Serve it next to a garden salad and a crunchy baguette for the ultimate experience.
To make this recipe I used orzo. Truly one of the most under-rated pastas ever. If you have never had orzo before, it looks like a grain of rice, but indeed it is pasta, made from durum wheat. It´s easy to cook and absorbs all the flavors in the pan.
I used homemade vegetable broth to cook this dish, as it adds a bigger depth of flavors. But if you prefer, you can use water. Though I do recommend that you season the water with salt to get most flavor out of this dish.
TIPS & TRICKS to Make this Recipe: You want to saute the orzo for 2 to 3 minutes with the onion and garlic. This gives the orzo and incredible texture and an even better flavor. I used the olive oil from the canned tuna to sautee the vegetables and orzo. But you can also use EVOO if you like.
Key Ingredients & Cookware I used in this Recipe:
MY FRY PAN
EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL
SWEET SMOKED SPANISH PAPRIKA
SPANISH SEA SALT
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Watch the Video Below on How to Make this One-Pan Orzo with Tuna & Tomatoes
One-Pan Orzo with Tuna & Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 1 small onion
- 6 cloves garlic
- 12 black pitted olives
- 1 tsp sweet smoked Spanish paprika 2.50 grams
- 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes 440 grams
- 1 cup orzo 165 grams
- 2 cups vegetable broth 475 ml
- 2 cans tuna in olive oil 5 oz / 142 grams each
- handful fresh parsley
- pinch sea salt
- dash black pepper
Instructions
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Add the vegetable broth into a sauce pan and heat with a high heat
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Heat a large fry pan with a medium heat
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Meanwhile, finely chop the onion, roughly chop the garlic, cut the olives in half, finely chop the parsley and drain the cans of tuna into a sieve with a bowl underneath
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Add the olive oil from the canned tuna into the hot fry pan, immediately add in the onion and garlic, mix with the olive oil, after 3 minutes and the onion is translucent, add in the orzo, continue to mix, after 3 minutes and the orzo is lightly browned, add in the paprika, quickly mix together, then add in the canned diced tomatoes, season with sea salt & black pepper and add the black olives, mix together, then add in the hot broth, mix together, place a lid on the pan and lower to a low-medium heat, cook until the orzo is al dente (check package instructions)
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Once the orzo is cooked, remove the pan from the heat, add in the drained tuna and 2 tbsp (8 grams) of the finely chopped parsley, mix together until well mixed, sprinkle with more parsley, serve at once, enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Get the Sweet Smoked Spanish Paprika I used in this Recipe
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Fiona
08 . Jan . 2024Excellent recipe. My husband made it for us and he only copes with fairly easy recipes. This was quick to make and healthy and tasted delicious. For the 2 of us we have leftovers for lunch too.
Spain on a Fork
Happy to hear that! Thanks for the comment 🙂 Much love
08 . Jan . 2024Kathy
28 . Oct . 2022My husband and I really enjoyed this recipe! It was so easy to put together and convenient since everything came from my pantry. I’m looking forward to trying your other recipes. Thanks for sharing!
Spain on a Fork
So happy to hear that! Thanks for the comment 🙂 Much love
31 . Oct . 2022Frank | Memorie di Angelina
I could definitely see myself getting hooked on this! Need to try this soon.
13 . Sep . 2022Spain on a Fork
Yes! It´s a great dish 🙂 Much love
15 . Sep . 2022Michele H.
12 . Sep . 2022Hello Albert! We have tried multiple recipes from your site/YouTube channel, and they are all easy and wonderful. Yesterday I made this recipe (actually doubled it) so we could have dinner and lunches for the week using ingredients I already had in the pantry or fridge. Just ate it for dinner and it is delicious – very tasty! Thank you so much for sharing such simple and delicious (and economical) recipes. 😋
Spain on a Fork
So happy to hear that!!! Thanks for the comment 🙂 Much love
13 . Sep . 2022Laura
I grabbed the wrong can of tomatoes and forgot the paprika and it was still amazing! Definitely will become a go-to recipe.
11 . Sep . 2022Spain on a Fork
Happy to hear that! Much love 🙂
11 . Sep . 2022Randy Murphy
Albert, I made the One-Pam Orzo with Tuna & Tomatoes this evening for my wife and I…I have to tell you that we now have ANOTHER favourite meal from Spain on a fork! Your description of ‘delicious’ in the video hardly describes just how good and flavourful this dish truly is! It’s a big hit here in Newfoundland, Canada. Keep up the good work…thanks so much.
03 . Sep . 2022Spain on a Fork
So happy to hear that! Thanks for the comment 🙂 Much love
04 . Sep . 2022Amber
02 . Sep . 2022Lovely dish, delicious as all the recipes are.
Spain on a Fork
Thank you! Much love 🙂
04 . Sep . 2022gws
I cannot find orzo in my part of Spain; where do you get yours? I know it is also called risoni.
02 . Sep . 2022Spain on a Fork
I got it at Aldi, but you can also order it from amazon España 🙂 much love
04 . Sep . 2022