Pasta Alla Puttanesca Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oil in large pot over medium heat. Add garlic and sauté until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add tomatoes with puree, olives, anchovies, capers, oregano, and crushed red pepper. Simmer sauce over medium-low heat until thickened, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, about 8 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until tender but still firm to bite. Drain pasta; return to same pot. Add sauce and parsley. Toss over low heat until sauce coats pasta, about 3 minutes. Serve with cheese.

Steps:

• Drain tomatoes and reserve liquid.
• Sauté onion in olive oil until browned, add garlic and red pepper flakes and continue to sauté for a couple of minutes more.
• Do not over brown the garlic.
• Add tomatoes and ½ cup of the reserved liquid, the wine, capers, olives, mushrooms, oregano, and anchovies.
• Bring sauce to boil, lower heat to simmer and cook uncovered for twenty minutes.
• If the sauce becomes too dry add more tomato juice a little at time.
• During the last 5 minutes of cooking time add basil and parsley, finish cooking.
• Once the sauce is simmering, bring a large pot of water to a full rolling boil, add salt.
• Read package directions for spaghetti to determine cooking time.
• Add spaghetti and cook according to package directions so that the sauce and spaghetti are finish about the same time.
• Drain the pasta well.
• Add pasta to sauce pot, combine and cook for another minute or two.
• Move spaghetti to service plates.
• Sprinkle with grated Romano or Parmesan.

Steps:

• Put in a frying pan (aluminum is suggested for these types of cooking but not necessarily) extravirgin olive oil, garlic, anchovies and the hot pepper (if you don't like too spicy use 1/2 teaspoon).
• Brown the previous ingredients until the anchovies melts.
• Meanwhile cut into with a knife the green and the black olives.
• Add the tomoatoes, sliced olives, oregano, black pepper, parsley and salt.
• Cook the sauce on a low flame/heat for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, use another pot to boil the water.
• Cook the pasta, exactly al dente ;-).
• Drain the pasta and dress it (in the same water pot) with half of the sauce you prepared.
• Plate up and add a bit more sauce on the top with a pinch of fresh parsley.
• Buon Appetito!

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add oil, garlic, anchovies, and crushed pepper. Saute mixture until anchovies melt into oil and completely dissolve and garlic is tender, about 3 minutes: your kitchen never smelled so good! Add olives, capers, tomatoes, black pepper, and parsley. Bring sauce to a bubble, reduce heat, and simmer 8 to 10 minutes.
• Toss sauce with cooked pasta. Pass bread and cheese at the table and serve with Bitter Greens Salad.
• Combine greens in a salad bowl. Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon over the bowl. Drizzle salad liberally with extra virgin olive oil. Toss salad and season salad with salt and pepper. Arrange salad on plates. Garnish plates with black olives, if using.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
• Submerge the tomatoes in boiling water for 1 minute. Using a slotted spoon, remove the tomatoes.
• Peel the tomatoes and cut them open. Discard the seeds and cut the flesh into small cubes.
• In a large nonstick pan heat about 3 tablespoons olive oil and saute together the garlic, anchovies, olives, capers, and red pepper flakes for about 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the tomatoes and let cook on a medium-low heat for about 10 to 15 minutes.
• In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the spaghetti about 2 minutes less than indicated on the box, drain and add to the sauce pan on a medium high flame, toss around for a couple of minutes or less, making sure the sauce is evenly distributed on the pasta.
• Add a sprinkle of finely chopped parsley and a drizzle extra-virgin olive oil.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a non-stick pan over a medium-low heat. Add the onion along with a generous pinch of salt and fry for 10 mins, or until soft. Add the garlic and chilli, if using, and cook for a further minute.
• Stir the tomatoes, anchovies, olives and capers into the onion, bring to a gentle simmer and cook, uncovered, for 15 mins. Season to taste.
• Meanwhile, bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Cook the spaghetti following pack instructions, then drain and toss with the sauce and parsley.