Puttanesca spaghetti is a typical dish of the Neapolitan tradition. Tasty, quick and easy-to-do.
To make this spicy pasta dish you'll need typical Mediterranean ingredients: tomatoes, anchovies in oil, capers, black olives, parsley, olive oil and garlic.
Here's the recipe of puttanesca spaghetti!

Prepare the sauce. Blanch, peel and seed fresh tomatoes. If you have little time or you haven't found fresh tomatoes, you can use pelati (canned peeled whole tomatoes).
Put the olive oil, anchovies, capers, chopped tomatoes, olives and hot chili pepper in a frying pan. Cook over a fierce heat for 5-10 minutes, stirring now and then.
Remove from the heat. Season to taste with salt and add the parsley, finely chopped.
The sauce is ready.

Cook the spaghetti. Remember to follow the directions on the package to cook correctly the pasta or our instructions to have the best result. Cook al dente stage and drain the spaghetti. Transfer them into the pan with the sauce and flavor for few seconds on fierce heat, stirring.
Serve immediately!

Note

• - You can modify this recipe adding mushrooms or tuna or red and yellow pepper (capsicum) or what you want to the basic ingredients.
• - In some recipes you could find the butter together with the olive oil. We prefer to use only the extra virgin olive oil because we like much more low fat recipes.
• - Some people prefer to use anchovies in salt.

Healthy eating

• - Daily menu. This pasta dish is rich in ingredients and so my tip is to combine it only with a vegetable dish. Raw or cooked vegetables dressed only with a teaspoon of olive oil per head. Complete your meal with fresh fruits.
  We remember pasta should be eaten preferably at lunch and the calories eaten at lunch should be 500 - 700 (30 - 35% of energy needs for an adult if his daily needs are about 2000 calories and he correctly divides his calories into 5 micro-meals).
  Here are the doses per head: 70 g (2 1/2oz) pasta, 25 g (1oz) olives, 2 little anchovy fillets in oil, 1 teaspoon capers in vinegar, less than 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, aromatic herbs.
• - Special occasion menu. Don't worry about fat, calories, sugars ... it happens rarely, doesn't it? In this case the doses are enough for more people ( it can serve 6 people)
• - If you want to drink a glass of wine remember you have to add 80-85 kCal per 100 ml.
• - If you want to know more about Italian pasta and its nutrition value read this page.
• - We remember you our original home recipes can be made without salt; there is a combination of flavors that substitutes salt. Other no salt recipes ...

What's the right wine for " Puttanesca sauce " ?

Our suggestion is: Fiano d'Avellino (a wine from Campania - Italy).

A little history

This dish (puttanesca spaghetti) has an embarassing name; it's dedicated to a sinner! Somebody says it has aphrodisiac properties. Certainly we know it's tasty and its origin go back to the old Neapolitan traditions in kitchen.