Pasta recipe for 4 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has spaghetti, olive oil, onion, garlic clove, red chilli, tomato puree, pilchard, black olive and parmesan.
Pilchard puttanesca
Course: Pasta
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Parmesan: shaved parmesan, to serve
- Red Chilli: 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- Spaghetti: 300g spaghetti
- Olive Oil: 1 tbsp olive oil
- Onion: 1 onion, finely chopped
- Tomato Puree: 1 tbsp tomato puree
- Black Olive: 70g pack dried black olive with herbs (we used Crespo), roughly chopped
- Pilchard: 425g can pilchard in tomato sauce
Directions
- Cook the pasta following pack instructions. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan and cook the onion, garlic and chilli for 3-4 mins to soften. Stir in the tomato puree and cook for 1 min, then add the pilchards with their sauce. Cook, breaking up the fish with a wooden spoon, then add the olives and continue to cook for a few more mins.
- Drain the pasta and add to the pan with 2-3 tbsp of the cooking water. Toss everything together well, then divide between plates and serve, scattered with Parmesan.
