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The famous pasta alla puttanesca is a traditional Neapolitan pasta based on few and easy ingredients: olves, capers, tomato sauce, anchovies.
The name is pretty….weird, let’s say that. If you know a little bit of Italian, you already understood why. 😀
In fact, it seems that this recipe was born in a brothel of Naples. Yes, a brothel.
Apparently, one of the “lady” made this quick pasta with olive and capers (the original name in Neapolitan is Aulive e chiapparell) to feed the customers waiting for their……Moment!
As I just said, this recipe, is very easy, but there is a Roman version also, which includes a little bit of parsley.
So if you want to astonish your guests with a real Roman Puttanesca, just follow the following steps.
Pasta alla Puttanesca -Roman version
Ingredients
- ¾ pound of cherry tomatoes
- 4 anchovies fillets
- 3 spoons of capers
- 3 spoons of olive oil
- 1 clove of garlic
- 10 oz. tomato sauce
- Oregano
- Salt
- Parsley
Ten steps for an easy recipe!
1 : Rinse and chop the anchovies.
2: Add the olive oil in a sauce pan, and when it starts frying, add the garlic til it becomes golden.
3:Wash the cherry tomatoes, chop and put them all in the sauce pan. Let It go everything for a a couple of minutes.
4: Pour the tomato sauce and after cooking for 10 minutes, add capers and black olives.
5: Salt as you like. I suggest to try it first, since capers and anchovies are already salted.
6. Following the Roman traditional recipe, add a pinch of oregano and a pinch of parsley
6. When the sauce has taken, remove it from the stove and cover it.
7: Now, boil the water, salt it, and add pasta.
Traditional puttanesca is made with spaghetti, penne or pappardelle. I usually prefer the pappardelle: this type of sauce, in fact, perfectly matches with long thick and porous pasta.
8. When pasta is cooked, poor it in a strainer, making sure all the water is gone.
9. Now poor the pappardelle in the puttanesca sauce. Remember:
Not sauce on top of pasta, but pasta inside sauce. It changes a lot!
10. Turn on the stove and mix pasta and sauce thoroughly for a minute.
11. Turn off and serve!
