Name: Spaghetti with Shrimp, Tomatoes, and Capers (Spaghetti ai Gamberi, Pomodoro e Capperi)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon capers; 2 sprigs fresh oregano; 1 pound fresh tomatoes; Salt; 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; 1 medium yellow onion; ¾ pound large shrimp; Freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2009

About

Here is a wonderfully tasty and easy shrimp pasta dish. The most time-consuming part is peeling and deveining the shrimp. Though medium shrimp are fine to use here and less expensive, I prefer using the larger 21–30 or even 16–20 per pound shrimp simply because there are fewer of them to clean that way.

Ingredients

1 medium yellow onion
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Salt
1

Method

Fill a pot for the pasta with about 6 quarts of water, place over high heat, and bring to a boil.
Peel, halve, and thinly slice the onion crosswise. Put the olive oil in a 12-inch skillet, add the sliced onion, and place over medium-high heat. Season lightly with salt and sauté until the onion turns a rich golden color, 6 to 8 minutes.
While the onion