Spaghetti with a Savory Tomato Sauce

Name: Spaghetti with a Savory Tomato Sauce (Spaghetti alla Puttanesca)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 pounds fresh tomatoes; 6 anchovy fillets; Salt; 1 pound spaghetti or spaghettini; 2 tablespoons capers; 1 medium clove garlic; 2 sprigs oregano; 10 Kalamata olives; 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2009

About

This “saucily” sauced Neapolitan pasta dish is named after the “ladies of the night” who, according to legend, used it to seduce their clients. Though I cannot guarantee its aphrodisiac qualities, I think it will undoubtedly make whomever you serve this pasta to quite happy. My wife certainly is when I make it!

Ingredients

2 pounds fresh tomatoes
1 medium clove garlic
6 anc

Europe
Italy
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean

Method

Fill a pot for the pasta with about 6 quarts of water, place over high heat, and bring to a boil.
Peel the tomatoes and coarsely chop them.
Peel the garlic and finely chop it. Coarsely chop the anchovies and put them with the olive oil in a 12-inch skillet and place over medium-high heat. Cook until the anchovies have mostly dissolved, 1 to 2 minutes.