Recipe and source notes

Easy pasta alla puttanesca

4 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 40g butter
  • ½ tbs olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 4 anchovy fillets
  • 150g black olives, stoned
  • 1 tbs capers
  • 240g plum tomatoes from a can (4 tomatoes without juice), chopped
  • ¼ tsp black pepper, ground
  • 500g pasta of your choice (spaghetti, penne, bucatini, linguine)
  • 1 tbs fresh parsley leaves, chopped

Make it step by step

  1. In a food processor roughly chop anchovy filets, olives and capers.
  2. In a pan warm the butter with olive oil and sauté the garlic cloves. Add all the chopped ingredients, anchovy filets, olives, capers and tomatoes; stir and cook slowly for 15 minutes. Season with pepper.
  3. Boil the pasta in plenty of water according to the manufacturer's instructions. Drain, top with the sauce and sprinkle with parsley.
  4. Serve immediately.

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Adapted from Foodista by Easy cook - Lak..., under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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