Pine Nut Puttanesca

Ingredients

• 10 oz Grape Tomatoes
• 2 Garlic Cloves
• ¾ oz Capers
• 1 oz Pitted Kalamata Olives
• 4 Oregano Sprigs
• 1 Mini Baguette
• ¾ oz Pine Nuts
• 6 oz Angel Hair Pasta
• 1 Tbsp. Tomato Paste
• Olive Oil
• Salt Pepper
• Coarsely chop grape tomatoes. Mince garlic.
• Coarsely chop capers. Rinse olives and halve. Stem
• and coarsely chop oregano. Halve baguette
• lengthwise.

Instructions

1. 1

   Cook Within: A food processor will make quick work of chopping grape tomatoes. But don’t chop too finely. Pulse 2-3 times to maintain a rustic Puttanesca has some outlandish and eyebrow-raising origin stories. Its likely beginnings trace back to the mid-20th century, when an Italian restaurant owner tried to placate some late-night diners with a pasta sauce cobbled together with what he had left: olives, capers, and just a couple of tomatoes.

2. 2

   Prepare the Ingredients: Coarsely chop grape tomatoes. Mince garlic. Coarsely chop capers. Rinse olives and halve. Stem and coarsely chop oregano. Halve baguette

3. 3

   Cook the Pasta: Add pasta to boiling water and cook, stirring often, until al dente, 3-5 minutes. Reserve ½ cup pasta cooking water before draining. Stir tomato paste

4. 4

   Make the Tomato Sauce: capers, olives, half the garlic (or to taste) (reserve remaining for garlic bread), and half the oregano (reserve remaining for garnish). Add 2 Tbsp. olive oil and season with ¼ tsp. salt and ¼ tsp. pepper. Stir until well combined and set aside for flavors to marry.

5. 5

   Add tomato sauce and reserved pasta water-: tomato paste mixture to pot with cooked pasta. Toss until well combined. Season to taste with salt

6. 6

   Combine 1 Tbsp. olive oil and remaining garlic in: minutes, remove from oven, and add pine nuts to nuts are toasted, 5-6 minutes. Pine nuts toast quickly. As soon as you detect the aroma of toasted nuts, remove from oven to avoid burning. While bread bakes, cook

7. 7

   Plate the Dish: Serve pasta on a plate next to garlic bread. Garnish with pine nuts and remaining oregano. recipe–it has bigger grains and is easier to pinch than table salt, allowing more control over flavor. If using regular table salt, reduce measured amounts by half. Half is added to tomato sauce and remaining is brushed onto Ƀ Some can’t get enough garlic, and others prefer a lighter touch. Use to taste when making twice. Half is added to tomato sauce and remaining garnishes the recipe before you start–we promise it will be time Ƀ Bring a medium pot of lightly salted water to a boil Ƀ Place a colander in the sink