Classic Pasta Puttanesca
This incredibly flavorful classic Italian puttanesca sauce recipe has tomatoes, olives, capers, garlic, and anchovies tossed in herbs and pasta.
Puttanesca is a zesty sauce comprised of tomatoes, onions, capers, olives, anchovies, and garlic, and is commonly served with pasta. On a restaurant menu, it will often say alla puttanesca, which means with the sauce. This sauce has a couple of minor variations, including herbs and chiles. Regardless, you can make this pasta work to your liking.
There are a couple of stories on where this sauce came from, starting with its origin in brothels, specifically in the Spanish quarters in Naples where the puttanas, translated to prostitutes, would feed themselves and clients.
Another story claims that puttana stems from the Latin word for putida, which means stinking. This would make sense considering the strong aromas from the ingredients in the pasta.
The last claim states that a chef in the famous Ischia restaurant in Italy had nothing much left to serve some hungry customers. He just threw together whatever ingredients he had, translating from “puttanata qualsiasi,” which means prepared as it comes. Make it simple with no frills. It’s really just a simple Spaghetti Sauce.
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Ingredients for this recipe:
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 6 thinly sliced garlic cloves
• 1 seeded and small diced Fresno pepper
• 4 roughly chopped anchovy fillets
• 2 tablespoons capers
• 28 ounces whole peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand
• ½ cup pitted and sliced Gaeta or Kalamata olives
• 2 tablespoons finely minced fresh parsley + more for garnish
• 1 pound dried spaghetti pasta
• sea salt and pepper to taste
The Perfect Pasta alla Puttanesca with Shrimp | Chef Jean-Pierre
Hello There Friends, Today I'm going to show you how to make one of my favourite Sauces, a Puttanesca Sauce that I make with Shrimp to give it some more flavour and depth. It is not necessarily the Traditional way of doing it, but I think it's fabulous and I think you will too! Make this dish and let me know what you think in the comments below!
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How to Make Pasta Puttanesca
Spaghetti Puttanesca is a perfect weeknight dish - if you don't mind the garlic breath. It's made from inexpensive pantry staples and packs a powerful punch of flavor. Best of all, it's ready in just about 15 minutes start to finish.
Puttanesca literally translates to in the style of prostitutes, supposedly because the pungent aromas of garlic, anchovies, capers, and olives tossed with pasta were how Neapolitan prostitutes would lead customers to their doors. This is one of those stories that seem, in the words of Douglas Adams, apocryphal or at least wildly inaccurate. That said, it's a fitting title—puttanesca packs an aromatic punch and then some.
WHY IT WORKS:
- Using a low volume of water for the pasta increases the water's starchiness, which will help to bind the sauce.
- Finishing the pasta in the sauce coats each noodle with flavor.
NOTES:
I don't recommend using a Microplane, grater, or garlic press in this application, as the garlic will end up burning before it can really flavor the oil. Check out our guide on how to chop capers and olives for detailed instructions.
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 pound (225g) dried spaghetti
Kosher salt
6 tablespoons (90ml) extra-virgin olive oil, divided
4 medium cloves garlic, thinly sliced or finely chopped by hand (see note above)
4 to 6 anchovy fillets, finely chopped (1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons; 20–30ml chopped anchovy)
Large pinch red pepper flakes
1/4 cup capers, drained and chopped (about 2 ounces; 60g) (see note above)
1/4 cup chopped pitted black olives (about 2 ounces; 60g) (see note above)
1 cup (225g) whole peeled tomatoes, preferably San Marzano, roughly broken up by hand (about half a 14 ounce can)
Small handful minced fresh parsley leaves
1 ounce (30g) finely grated Pecorino Romano or Parmesan cheese, plus more for serving
Freshly ground black pepper
1 (5-ounce; 140g) can oil-packed tuna (optional)
DIRECTIONS
1. Place spaghetti in a large skillet, sauté pan, or saucepan and cover with water. Add a small pinch of salt. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally to prevent pasta from sticking.
2. Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, combine 4 tablespoons (60ml) oil, garlic, anchovies, and red pepper flakes. Cook over medium heat until garlic is very lightly golden, about 5 minutes. (Adjust heat as necessary to keep it gently sizzling.) Add capers and olives and stir to combine.
3. Add tomatoes, stir to combine, and bring to a bare simmer. Continue to simmer until pasta is cooked to just under al dente (about 1 minute less than the package recommends).
4. Using tongs, transfer pasta to sauce. Alternatively, drain pasta through a colander, reserving 1 cup of the cooking water. Add drained pasta to sauce.
5. Add a few tablespoons of pasta water to sauce and increase heat to bring pasta and sauce to a vigorous simmer. Cook, stirring and shaking the pan and adding more pasta water as necessary to keep sauce loose, until pasta is perfectly al dente, 1 to 2 minutes longer. (The pasta will cook more slowly in the sauce than it did in the water.) Stir in remaining olive oil, parsley, and cheese.
6. Season with salt and pepper. (Be generous with the pepper and scant with the salt—the dish will be plenty salty from the other ingredients.) If using, stir in canned tuna and break it up with a fork. Serve immediately with more grated cheese at the table.
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Easy Pasta Puttanesca in 25 minutes
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⭐️ Puttanesca sauce has the right balance of sweet from the tomato, savory and tangy from the olives, and spicy from the red pepper flakes.
⭐️ Ingredients
1 pound spaghetti (+ 1 gallon of water and 2 tablespoon of salt to cook it)
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic
¾ cup black olives pitted (Gaeta, Kalamata, or other)
2 tablespoons capers
¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes or more to taste
28 ounces (1 large can) whole peeled tomatoes best if San Marzano
1 handful flat-leaf parsley
salt + black pepper taste the sauce and add if necessary
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Pasta Alla Puttanesca | How To Make This Underrated Dish
This pasta alla puttanesca is the perfect example of what balanced flavours should taste like. It's super easy to make, relatively cheap and of course, tastes delicious.
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Serves - 2
Ingredients -
300g (10.5oz) - Spaghetti or Pasta of Choice
1 1/2 Tbsp (30ml) - Olive Oil
6 - Anchovy Fillets
2 - Garlic Gloves, Thinly Sliced
40g (1.4oz) - Kalamata Olives, Pitted, Rinsed & Quartered
15g (0.5oz) - Capers, Rinsed & Roughly Chopped
1 Can (400g - 14.1oz) - Crushed Tomatoes
5g (0.2oz) - Oregano, Roughly Chopped (Substitute for 1 tsp (1g) Dried Oregano)
2 - Basil Stems, Leaves Picked & Sliced or Picked, Save Stems
Seasoning To Taste
Parmigiano Reggiano, Freshly Grated To Serve
Basil Leaves To Serve
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Gino D’Acampo shows you how to make Linguine alla Puttanesca | Gino’s Italian Family Adventure
In this video, Gino makes his in-laws Linguine alla Puttanesca, or more commonly know as, Linguine with Anchovies.
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