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Dinner · 25 min · 2 bowls

Puttanesca

Pantry salt and acid. The anchovy should disappear into the oil.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 25 min

easy

Why tonight. Pantry salt and acid. The anchovy should disappear into the oil.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • pasta
  • tomato
  • anchovies
  • olives
  • capers
  • garlic
  • olive oil

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.

Method

  1. Anchovies and sliced garlic into olive oil over low heat. Push the anchovies with a spoon until they dissolve — that is the dish's salt, not a topping.
  2. Capers, chopped olives, chili flakes, then tomatoes. Simmer hard enough to thicken, ten to fifteen minutes.
  3. Taste before you salt. Between the anchovy, the olives and the capers this is usually seasoned already, and this is the one sauce where people go too far.
  4. Drain the pasta into the pan, not the sink, and finish it in the sauce for a minute so it takes some on.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

pasta
The sauce finishes on the pasta, not the other way around.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
anchovies
They dissolve. Melted into hot oil at the start nothing tastes of fish — it tastes of depth, and the people who say they hate anchovies have almost always only met them whole on a pizza.
olives
Salt, bitterness and fat in one small package.
capers
Concentrated salt and floral bitterness — a seasoning that happens to be a vegetable.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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