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Pasta alla puttanesca plated, garnished with olives and capers

Spaghetti alla puttanesca

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Spaghetti alla puttanesca is a fantastic dish from Naples. It is simple, quick and cheap to prepare, and bursts from Mediterranean flavours. A super satisfying spaghetti!

  • Total Time: 30
  • Yield: 2 1x

Ingredients

Scale

200g Spaghetti

4 cloves garlic

400ml passata puglia (roma tomatoes)

80 ml extra virgin olive oil

6 Green olives

6 Black olives

2 tbsp capers

1 tsp nori seaweed

1 tsp chilli flakes

Optional: Some parsley to garnish

Instructions

Smash the garlic cloves, and cut them up. There is no need to mince it finely. Cut the olives into rough bits. Finely mince a nori sheet, or break it up using a pestle and mortar.

Add three tablespoons of olive oil to your pan. Add the garlic and chilli flakes, and heat together. The olive oil will infuse with all that delicious flavour. Before the garlic starts to develop colour, add the passata, ¾ of the olives and capers, and all of the nori seaweed. Bring the sauce to a simmer so it can reduce.

Add salt to a pot of boiling water, and cook the spaghetti following package instructions. Stop the cooking process a minute before the spaghetti reaches an al dente consistency so they can finish the cooking process in the sauce.

Transfer the spaghetti to the sauce. Reserve some pasta water, and add it to the sauce if needed. Now, you can cook until the spaghetti turn al dente. Check for seasoning.

Garnish the plated spaghetti alla puttanesca with a generous sip of olive oil and the remaining olives and caper. A few pinches of flakey sea salt, some more chilli flakes, or parsley make fantastic garnishes.

Notes

Nori Seaweed is my little twist to this classic recipe. Some traditional recipes call for anchovies, which inspired me to try introducing some ocean flavours with seaweed. I think it adds a nice note to the recipe!

The quality of ingredients really determines the outcome of this dish. A tasty extra virgin olive oil and great passata are essential.

  • Author: Ivo
  • Prep Time: 5
  • Cook Time: 25
  • Category: Starter, main, lunch, dinner
  • Cuisine: Italian
  • Diet: Vegan