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Pasta Puttanesca Recipe

La Faguette
A quick meal between lays.
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Tbsp minced garlic
  • ¼ tsp crushed red pepper
  • 1 tsp anchovy paste (usually next to canned anchovy)
  • ½ Tbsp tomato paste
  • ½ Tbsp chopped capers
  • ¼ tsp lemon zest
  • ¼ cup + 2 Tbsp sliced kalamata olives
  • 1 - 14oz can crushed tomatoes
  • ½ tsp white granulated sugar
  • ½ pound long pasta
  • 1 cup pasta water
  • 3 Tbsp butter, divided, held in freezer
  • olive oil
  • kosher salt
  • black pepper
  • chopped basil and/or mint, for garnish

Instructions
 

  • In a large pan, over medium-low heat, squirt about a tablespoon of olive oil and allow to heat up.
  • Once oil is shimmering and heated, add garlic, crushed red pepper, and anchovy paste. Cook, stirring, for a couple of minutes until garlic and anchovy are fragrant. This will smell like ass. I'm so sorry.
  • Add tomato paste and cook/stir until softened and everything in the pan is incorporated into each other - about 2 minutes.
  • Toss in capers, zest, and olives. Stir until well heated through - about 5 minutes.
  • Pour in crushed tomatoes and sugar. Stir that shit up!
  • Season to taste with salt and pepper, and continue cooking (be sure it doesn't start bubbling, may have to lower heat)while you cook the pasta.
  • Cook pasta until al dente, it will cook more in the sauce.
  • Before draining pasta, reserve 1 cup pasta water. Pour half of that into the pan with the whore sauce.
  • Now drain pasta, dump it into olive sauce, and turn up heat to medium-high.
  • Grab your butter from the freezer and add to pan. Stir often until butter is fully incorporated - 10 seconds on the heat, 10 seconds on the heat. If sauce is too thick, add more reserved pasta water.
    Taste the final sauce and, if necessary, season with more salt, pepper, and/or sugar.
  • Plate your pasta and top with chopped basil and/or mint!
  • Enjoy your puttanesca like a good little whore :)

Notes

Set up your ‘mise en place.’ This means do what the recipe tells you to do to the individual ingredients, measure them out, and then place them in separate little bowls/dishes/what-have-you. When it’s time to build the recipe, you have everything measured and ready to go. It makes the entire process so much easier and more enjoyable!
 
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