Today we’ll pretend to be pure Italians, with a recipe originating from the proverbial ability of Italians to find a way out of any situation using their cunning.
We’ve combined this quintessential Italian skill with another typical Italian art: the ability to produce savoury, wholesome and natural food such as Spaghetti Mancini Unique Edition for FABI|COSEBUONE. However, we’ve modified the recipe to create a gourmet version that retains its simplicity.
The puttanesca recipe dates from the days when brothels were still legal. Common ingredients found in every Italian home – especially in Southern Italy – such as tomatoes, olives and capers, were always on hand before or after the ‘performance’; using these simple ingredients, brothel managers – or often the ladies themselves – used to prepare a plate of pasta for clients behind payment of a small extra charge.
But since we use a noble pasta like Spaghetti Mancini Unique Edition for FABI|COSEBUONE, we’ve invented the gourmet version of this dish by adapting the recipe to our type of pasta, as usual.
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INGREDIENTS
Spaghetti Mancini Unique Edition for FABI|COSEBUONE – 90 g
Pitted black olives – 30 g
Pachino (cherry) tomatoes – 30 g
Desalted capers – 30 g
Anchovies in salt – 30 g
EVO oil, salt, pepper, chilli pepper and garlic, as required
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Cook the Spaghetti Mancini Unique Edition for FABI|COSEBUONE in unsalted and boiling water and prepare the sauce, while they cook for 10 minutes, as follows: leave aside a few olives (1), capers and a couple of tomatoes for garnishing the dish (2), and put all the other ingredients in the blender glass together with oil and fresh chilli peppers without the seeds.
Thoroughly blend all the ingredients raw to emulsify the oil with the rest of the ingredients and to ensure that the mixture turns to dark orange; filter the sauce obtained through a fine mesh colander to eliminate any impurities (3), such as the tomato skins or anchovy bones, then heat in a pan (4) together with a ladle spoonful of cooking water two minutes before draining the pasta. Pan-fry the drained Spaghetti Mancini Unique Edition for FABI|COSEBUONE for roughly one minute (5) so that they absorb the flavour extracted from all the ingredients.
Arrange (6) the Spaghetti Mancini Unique Edition for FABI|COSEBUONE in the plate in a horizontal nest (7) and garnish with the ingredients set aside. Add a bit of fresh oil and, if you like, a leaf of fresh parsley (8).
Recipe by Luca Robledo
