Puttanesca is a tangy and fairly salty Italian dish that the street workers used to eat. They ate it because most of the ingredients were cheap and had a long shelf life. Now you will find pasta puttanecsa at fine restaurants and cafes. Todays recipe is made with spinach and ricotta agnolloti but traditionally it should be served with penne or spaghetti.

Perfect Puttanesca
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Makes: 2 servings

Ingredients
Ingredients
4 tomatoes
4 garlic cloves
1 tbls olive oil
1 tbls capers
10 anchovies
3 tbls black olives
1 chilli
1 handful of parsley
1 handful of basil
Pasta for 2
Method
Heat the olive oil in a non stick pan.
All the ingredients need to be roughly chopped/diced. The garlic should be finely crushed, the rest think rustic.

Fine garlic and chili
Add the crushed garlic and chopped chilli to the hot pan and stir.

Oil, chili and garlic
Add the diced tomatoes and allow to simmer.

Add the diced tomatoes
Once the tomatoes start to break down add chopped capers, olives and anchovies.

Salty Goodness
Put your pasta on now and cook per packet instructions.

Two pot cook up

Brilliant colours
Add your fresh roughly chopped basil and parsley.

Almost there!

Which ever pasta you choose
Throw back in the pot and add the sauce.
Mix until the pasta is thoroughly coated in the puttanesca.

Every pasta is better with Parmesan
Serve with a sprinkling of Parmesan, seasoning to taste and some crusty bread.

Ready to eat
Categories
#Pasta
#Italian
#Healthy
#Easy
#Simple
#Fast
#Traditional
#Tomatoes#Fish