I am submitting this recipe for Tomato and Anchovy Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Helen of Fuss Free Flavours.
I have a good friend who is in love with anchovies! Well, at least I think she is, as she uses a whole bottle to make potato salad. My friend Cindy not only loves anchovies, she also prompted me to do Tandy Tuesday. This is a pasta theme that started with using only 5 ingredients to cook a pasta dish, excluding the pasta, oil, salt and pepper. I love the simplicity of pasta and the fact that you can make a sauce of olive oil, garlic and chilli’s; or go over the top and add a shopping cart of ingredients to make a sublime ragú. Every time I cook pasta, Cindy becomes a part of my kitchen, and the night I prepared this meal, she was even more a part of the whole cooking experience as I used her favourite ingredient. I too love anchovies, but it is a taste I had to acquire. Ten years ago you would not have found me eating one and now, I can quite happily not only cook with them, but eat them with a slice of cheese on a cracker. I have been told they are expensive, but, you use so few at a time that I personally feel it is worthwhile having a jar in your fridge, not only for pasta’s, but for tapenade and to use when you next roast a leg of lamb.
Tomato And Anchovy Pasta
Ingredients
- 15 mls olive oil
- 1 whole chilli split down the middle
- 1 clove garlic sliced
- 4 anchovy fillets
- 125 g roma tomatoes cut in half
- small handful of fresh basil chopped
- parmesan for garnishing
Method
- while your pasta is cooking heat the olive oil in a large frying pan
- add the chilli and the garlic and sauté the garlic until soft, without browning
- add the anchovy fillets and allow them to break down
- add the tomatoes and let them heat up
- remove the chill
- mix in your pasta and basil
- garnish with parmesan
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Love them little fishies any which way, as long as they find their way into my mouth 🙂
They are a taste explosion!
Adore anchovies and luckily for us, they´re not so expensive here in Spain. Well done on a lovely, simple and delicious looking recipe!
we have to import ours 🙂
So easy! And I am sure it was delicious!
simple is usually the best 🙂
Great recipe, thank you. And I’m with Cindy on this one – I could happily eat anchovies all day long. In fact, today I had anchovies on hot buttered sourdough bagels for lunch. My husband was truly appalled. 🙂
that is something I am going to have to try!
My mom use to make this all the time when I was growing up. Love it.
it is a nice comfort meal 🙂