Spaghetti puttanesca. In a large skillet or pot over medium heat, heat oil. Add anchovies and cook until fragrant, another minute. Add tomatoes, olives, capers, and red.
You can have Spaghetti puttanesca using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Spaghetti puttanesca
- Prepare 500 g of spaghetti.
- It’s cloves of Garlic.
- It’s Handful of chopped olives.
- Prepare of Capers (in salt if possible).
- Prepare of Chopped tomatoes.
- It’s of Parsley.
- It’s of Olive oil.
- You need of White wine.
Rumor has it that pasta puttanesca-literally "whore's pasta"-was a quick and easy dinner of choice among Napolitan working ladies. Make it with canned tomato paste and crushed tomatoes, canned anchovies, jarred olives and capers. Photography Credit: Elise Bauer While also known as ulive e chiapparielle (olives and capers) it's the name spaghetti alla puttanesca that has made this dish famous even outside of Italy. There are many theories about how this name—which is derived from the Italian word puttana (whore)—came to be, though none has been definitively proven.
Spaghetti puttanesca instructions
Cook spaghetti according to instructions in salted water. Don't overcook it. Cook garlic gently in olive oil.
Add olives and capers. Cook for a min or two then add wine and turn up the heat to burn off the alcohol..
Add chopped tomatoes and cook for 10 mins or so. Remove garlic.
Drain the spaghetti, add to sauce and mix it up. Serve with fresh parsley.
This is one of those stories that seem, in the words of Douglas Adams, apocryphal or at least wildly inaccurate. Directions Cook the spaghetti in salted, boiling water until al dente. Meanwhile fry the garlic, capers, olives, anchovies, chiles, and oregano in a little olive oil for a few minutes. Add the garlic and chilli, if using, and cook for a further minute. Its ingredients typically include tomatoes, olive oil, olives, capers, and garlic, in addition to pasta.
