Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

This is a great spaghetti recipe which will take only 20 minutes to cook. Traditional Puttanesca recipes will have you chopping all the ingredients and adding them into the pan. I find that chopping all the ingredients together and adding them all into the pan at the same time will release the flavours better and assist with preparing this recipe much faster.

You may have seen my Tupperware contraction in a few of my past recipes, its the Tupperware smooth chopper and a fantastic piece of equipment to use for chopping vegetables finely. Its great when chopping onions, no more tears!

Tupperware Smooth Chopper (shown without the lid)

Ensure to use a semi-deep non-stick pan, this is what will assist you with cooking your sugo faster!

Ingredients (Enough to coat 500 grams of pasta)

1. 1/4 cup olive oil
2. 6 anchovies
3. 3 cloves garlic
4. 2 spring onions
5. 1/2 red onion
6. 2 tblsp capers
7. 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes
8. 8 large pitted black kalamata olives
9. 2 sprigs of oregano fresh (or 1 tblsp dried)
10. 1 tblsp olive oil
11. 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
12. 1/2 red chilli
13. 750ml tomato passata
14. Salt and pepper to season

Method

1. Add the garlic, spring onions, chilli, red onion, capers, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and tablespoon of olive oil into a blitzer (blender or bamix or tupperware smooth chopper) and roughly chop into a paste.

2. In a hot pan add 1/4 cup of olive oil and anchovies. Stir and break down the anchovies

3. Add the roughly chopped paste to the pan, stir and cook for 2 minutes on high heat

4. Add the tomato passatta and stir through, add the sweet chilli sauce, fresh oregano, salt and pepper to season. Cook for 2 minutes on high heat.

5. Reduce the heat to medium strength, place the lid on top, slightly leaving it adjar and cook for a further 15 minutes, stirring every few minutes

 

6.  Whilst it cooks, prepare your spaghetti in a separate boiling pot.  

7. Your sugo should look like this when its ready. If you require an additional couple of minutes to simmer down ensure to allow this.

8. Serve with your spaghetti!

 

Enjoy 

xx Steph