Spaghetti Puttanesca

Spaghetti Puttanesca is one of my family's favourite pasta meals. If you like salty flavours then this is the sauce for you. Most of my Tomato Pasta sauces  blogs  , like my Indian curries will look the same in the pictures but the addition of different ingredients allow the dishes to have a unique flavour.

Ingredients

Olive Oil
1 small onion finely chopped
2 garlic cloves  finely chopped
4 anchovies
50 grams of black olives , sliced
1 Tbsp of capers
1 can of chopped Tomatoes
45 ml of water or to make it richer a glass of red wine
1 Tbsp of Parsley or  basil
350 grams of spaghetti


Method

1) Heat the Saucepan and cook the onions , garlic , anchovies over a low heat for 5 minutes.
2) Add the Black Olives and Capers and cook for 1 -2 minutes
3) Add the tomatoes , wine or water and half your herbs slowly let simmer away for 30 minutes
4) Cook your pasta
5) Assemble in a bowl and sprinkle the remaining  herbs on the pasta.

Additional Information

If you add an extra tin of tomatoes ,  120 ml of water and red wine along with a red pepper and aubergine  you have a slightly similar pasta sauce to the above but equally as nice called spaghetti alla Sircausana , which is a Sicilian dish , where as Puttanesca is from Campania in southern Italy . Hope you enjoy both dishes. If you would like me to do a separate blog about  this dish please message me below.


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