Pasta alla puttanesca
From dora 16 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Pasta alla Puttanesca is a traditional pasta dish is from Naples, This dish if famed for it’s name which translates as “Pasta the way a whore would make it”, while there are many theories why it is named as such the most likely that I have heard is that it is a quick, cheap yet tasty meal that could easily be prepared by Napoli’s ladies of the night!
Ingredients
- One lb. of pasta (spaghetti or penne) shopping list
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil shopping list
- 2 - 3 cloves of garlic shopping list
- 1 can of Italian plum tomatoes shopping list
- 16 black olives (gaeta or greek kalamata) shopping list
- 2 tablespoons of capers shopping list
- 6 pieces of anchovies (chopped) shopping list
- minced parsely on top shopping list
How to make it
- To prepare this dish:
- • Chop the garlic and set aside for later
- • In a frying pan, heat the olive oil.
- • Once its hot, fry the garlic.
- • As the ingredients are frying, chop the olives and the anchovies.
- • After a few minutes of frying, add the olives, anchovies, capers and tomaotoes Cook for twenty to thirty minutes until the mixture reduces down.
- • Serve on the spagetti, or penne.
- • This is a quick and easy meal, perfect after a hard day at work!
- Wine: Aglianico rosso.
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Sounds so easy that even I could make it. And it would be tasty too!
Thank you for the post.
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Oh yeah, (I hit the enter key too soon) this sounds like it would be healthier then the tipical american way of preparing spagetti.
Again thank you for he posting.
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