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Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified

Sardine pantry pasta

Palermo logic: fish from a tin, fennel, garlic, lemon, pasta water. Chili. It should taste like the sea and anise, not tuna noodle casserole.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Palermo logic: fish from a tin, fennel, garlic, lemon, pasta water. Chili. It should taste like the sea and anise, not tuna noodle casserole.

What it needs

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  • pasta
  • tuna
  • fennel
  • garlic
  • lemon

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

Method

  1. Fennel softened slowly in oil first, ten minutes, until it is sweet rather than aniseedy.
  2. Fish folded in at the very end in big flakes. Simmered, it goes dry and stringy.
  3. Toasted breadcrumbs instead of cheese, which is the Sicilian convention and better here.
  4. Lemon and chili off the heat, and enough oil that the pasta is glossy rather than dry.

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What the ingredients are actually doing

pasta
The sauce finishes on the pasta, not the other way around.
tuna
Canned in oil is a different ingredient from canned in water; the oil is flavor and should go into the dish, not the sink.
fennel
Anise, and it moves a long way with cooking.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.

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