Spaghetti all puttanesca is one of my favourite dishes to cook. It's easy but tastes great!
I've heard of that dish. It has a fair amount of healthy ingredients like tomatoes, olives, garlic... do you anchovies in your version or no?
It's traditional, but I like to leave them out.
1961 Italian novel which mentions ""spaghetti alla puttanesca come li fanno a Siracusa" (spaghetti alla puttanesca as they make it in Syracuse)". The sauce became popular in the 1960s, according to the Professional Union of Italian Pasta Makers.
The 1971 edition of the "Cucchiaio d’argento" ("The Silver Spoon"), one of Italy's most prominent cookbooks, has no recipe with this name, but two which are similar: The Neapolitan "spaghetti alla partenopea", is made with anchovies and generous
Spaghetti alla puttanesca
Spaghetti alla puttanesca (; "spaghetti with very few ingredients" in Italian) is an Italian pasta dish invented in Naples in the mid-20th century. Its ingredients typically include tomatoes, olive oil, anchovies, olives, capers and garlic.
Origin.
Various accounts exist as to when and how the dish originated, but it probably dates to the mid-twentieth century. The earliest known mention of it is in Raffaele La Capria’s "Ferito a Morte" ("Mortal Wound"), a