Spaghetti alla puttanesca, Italian traditional recipe (VIDEO)

It’s a very appreciated dish of the Italian cuisine, but it has quite uncertain origins.

It is also known as spaghetti alla bonne femme. The ingredients we need for 4 portions are: 360 grams of spaghetti, 500 grams of tomato flesh, 100 grams of pitted black olives, 25 grams of salted capers, 4 or 5 salted anchovy fillets, a big clove of garlic, a little hot pepper, some salt, some pepper, extra virgin oil and a bit of fresh parsley.

After having put a pot with water on, we remove the salt from the anchovies and capers with running water and we chop the garlic and the parsley finely. / We cut the olives in round slices instead. / Once all ingredients are ready, we can start preparing the sauce. So we put 4 spoons of oil in a pan, we add the anchovy fillets and we crush them with a fork. We let them melt partially on moderate heat and we add some garlic. // We also add the chopped red pepper, the capers and the olives. We make it become tasty for almost one minute, then we rise the flame and we add the tomato flesh. After having cooked the sauce for 15-20 minutes, we can cook the pasta. After having added some salt, we pour it in the boiling water.

We drain the pasta when it’s still firm and we directly pour it in pan. We add a spoon of cooking water and we stir fry on full heat// we let it becoming tasty for a few minutes before adding some parsley. // And in the end we serve it very hot. / We complete our dish with a slight sprinkle of parsley. // If you have got a prepared tomato sauce, you can cook your spaghetti alla puttanesca in a few minutes.