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Recipe: Pasta Puttanesca

March 17, 2011 by Renee Claire

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Pasta Puttanesca Ingredients

Pasta puttanesca is a perfect week-night dish–easy & quick to make, made with mostly pantry items, and adjustable for different dietary needs. It can easily be vegetarian, although the anchovy base adds “umami” dimension. If you choose to forgo anchovies, you might try 1 to 2 tbsps olive brine, added with the tomatoes.

Ingredients

1 lb long, thin pasta
3 tbsps olive oil + some to coat pasta
4 or more oil-packed anchovy fillets
5 garlic cloves, crushed & peeled
1 28 oz can crushed plum tomatoes
1/2 tsp chili pepper flakes
salt & fresh ground black pepper, to taste
2 tbsps capers
optional: fresh chopped parsley and/or basil

{the recipe also traditionally includes oil-cured black olives}

Preparation

1. Prepare pasta according to box instructions. Drain, drizzle with olive oil, and toss to coat. Set aside.

2. Add 3 tbsps olive oil to a thick-bottomed pan. Warm over medium heat; add anchovy fillets and crushed garlic. Cook 2 minutes, smashing and mixing anchovies into the oil.

3. Add canned tomatoes to pan, and raise heat to medium high. Cook ten minutes, then add chili pepper flakes, salt, pepper, and capers. Let simmer 3 to 5 minutes more.

4. Stir in fresh herbs, if any. Remove sauce from heat and serve over the pasta.

Pasta Puttanesca

Mario Batali would have apoplexy over this amount of sauce. Sorry, Mr. Batali.

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Comments

  1. Suzanne says

    March 18, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    Mmmmmm….that looks so delish!

  2. Renee says

    March 18, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    Thanks Suzanne! Love the polka dot wrapping paper in your shop.

  3. fiona says

    March 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

    Is Mario against pasta sauce? That’s the best part!

  4. Renee says

    March 23, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    He’s just against oversaucing your pasta, which he says 99.9% of Americans do:
    http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/10/mario-batali-video-how-to-sauce-pasta.html
    (but pasta sauce is my favorite part too!)

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