How to Make PASTA ALLA PUTTANESCA | Authentic Italian Recipe

hi i'm harper ciao today we're making pasta kind of a naughty pasta alpera this is a very famous pasta dish and it's pasta la putanesca which means in the prostitutes time well those prostitutes must have had really good taste because i've had it and it's a really good plate of pasta before we begin a quick shout out to this amazing pasta grammarian in action who made a beautiful gato di patate a potato cake as i like to call it it's an amazing dish if you haven't seen that you can watch the video here thank you for trying the recipe we really appreciate it if you want to become a pasta grammarian then hit that subscribe button and let's get cooking the first step as always is to understand the ingredients for our pasta all right we've got olive oil salt pepper easy a whole bunch of tomatoes pasta obviously but i see you're going with linguine today we are cooking a linguine but then if you want from luina to switch for example with spaghetti or penne why not a clove of garlic some parsley three anchovies and finally we've got capers and olives see and these are all the ingredients that we need for cooking our linguine alla putanesca i actually feel very confident about this recipe because i feel like my pasta game is on point which means that i can be on a side and you can cook by yourself no definitely gonna need some help but i do know that while we do whatever we're about to do i'm gonna get my water started this is a good first step we need to chop our capers and our olives and our tomatoes what should i do with the tomatoes like have them yes this time we are using cherry tomatoes grape tomatoes if you don't find good fresh tomatoes you can also use wallpaper whole peeled tomatoes they should work during winter time i don't really suggest tomatoes like roma or something like that it's an easy job it's not too hard now this pasta is traditionally from campana and it's called putaneska because it seems that he was cooked for the prostitute where while they were working but they need also to eat so the the person who was in charge of their food they he made he or she made pasa la putanesca it was so good that we still keep eating and do it okay so now the olives yes we don't need them finally finally finally finally you don't need a minced or diced bravo slice yes because we want to bite the olives when we eat our pasta now that you slice the our olives you need to chop the capers and these see finely chopped because capers they have a very strong taste so we need them to give flavor flavor to our pasta but if you are not crazy like me that can eat cappers like olives maybe you don't want to bite a whole caper okay so we need some olive oil in our pan and some perfect then we need our clove of garlic but this time we keep the garlic skin on and you crush and put in the pan this is what we call allio inca media in italy in camilla means with the shirt okay then medium medium high temperature and we wait a little bit until uh the garlic start to kind of bubble perfect alpe bravo this is a very cool technique where did you learn this technique ah i wonder where i wonder where it's almost like i've watched someone make pasta for years okay right now we need to pour inside our entries but before you put the anchovies uh low the heat a little bit turn down see a little bit because otherwise they will splash everywhere okay so put the edges okay we need the melt the anchovies yes well like to dissolve a little bit yeah you're right they do kind of splatter see be careful okay this is the moment in which we can take also our garlic out because the garlic made his job which means gave that hint but no more you have served your purpose garlic capers cabers [Music] okay now we let them cook together for about 2-3 minutes and then we can add our tomatoes and while we are waiting it's very important that you put salt in our water okay i know it's a salt water see because otherwise the pasta doesn't taste handfuls that smells so good that smells already baby good it's i love this dish because it has that awesome flavor combination that like polo alacachitora has which is the tomatoes the olives the capers time for our tomatoes all right and now we let our sauce cook now if we were in summer when tomatoes are perfect we don't really need to add water but because we are in winter is better if we need a little bit of water helping the tomatoes to melt and create our sauce because they're just not as like juicy and no they are not good as they are in july or else a little bit like that perfecto [Music] you can turn up the heat a little bit what we need to do now is to pour some black pepper perfect this time i don't suggest to add more salt because we have the capers we have the anchovies and they are already enough salt but then before we will pour our pasta inside we will taste and we will see if we need more salt so now our per just cover them and we let it cook for about 10 minutes no more meanwhile according to water is written on the box of pasta we can pour our pasta in the water so they can cook in the same time it says cook for 10 minutes if you prefer al dente which we do because they say 10 minutes and because we want our pasta up dairy al dente we we will cook it for eight minutes which means that we need to wait two minutes more and then we can start to cook our pasta okay we'll be back in a couple minutes okay it's been a couple minutes so i can put the pasta in right go with the pasta can i teach you a trick yes let it just become soft for 30 seconds and then easily you can put all the pasta inside okay i see a lot of time people who try to press the pasta in the pot but you are risking just to break it so just patience to 30 seconds and naturally the pasta [Music] i was just testing you to see if i know how to cook pasta yeah i have my doubts i realize that you don't need a timer but i'm gonna set a timer sauce is looking good tomatoes are starting to soften see okay alpernau is the moment in which you can start to stir the pasta so we avoid that our linguine will be just all together a lot of people ask if they need to put oil in the pasta water while cooking the pasta to avoid the pasta stick guys no you don't need to put any olive oil the only thing that you need to do is take a bigger pot because a lot quantity a big quantity of water is what avoid pasta to stick together if you want to cook half kilos of pasta a pound of pasta in a smaller pot like that yes your pasta will stick even if you put just about the olive oil smells really good instead of just stirring the pasta and not let the pasta cook you can chop our parsley because then we will put the parsley on top so this actually is like a really easy or quick recipe i should say because like you can basically you can do all the prep in the time that the water comes up to boil because you don't really need a lot of time to cook most of our pasta dishes usually they take maximum i don't know 20 million 15 20 25 have you met my friend lasagna yet yes he doesn't matter lasagna is a special kind of pasta like lasagna i know he's looking good i think he looks and now you should also try and see if we need some salt oh okay maybe a little bit yes absolutely yes okay now we should be good okay now our sauce is ready before our pasta all right well we have only about one minute left in the pasta okay can we like turn the heat off and let it chill out if that happens no if this happens you can add a little bit more water or pasta water so the sauce doesn't dry too much oh okay also how do you know it's done like just from the consistency of the liquid in it yes because it's creamy because the tomatoes are already soft but we don't want they completely disappear we want any way to bite a tomato it's one of that pasta dish that you're never you have never enough you could eat the pasta all year round every day okay now try one to see if the salt is okay the salt is okay now put the pasta there and i assume because it's still very al dente that we then cook it further in the sauce right we will finish our pasta in the sauce how we do this we will add another little little a little ladle a little ladle of pasta water i got yes ago maybe i need to be a little bit more another little ladle okay stir the pasta because stir in the pasta is what makes the pasta creamier you need to turn up the it a little bit i saw always a lot of people when they cook pasta that they take the pasta they drain the pasta put on a plate and then they pour the sauce on top this is one of the worst things that you can do to your pasta because it's always pasta in the sauce and then together in the plate and not pasta in the plate and then the sauce on top that's probably been like the the biggest and best thing i've learned about cooking pasta since meeting you is that pasta and sauce should be cooked together it makes a huge difference what happens if you misjudge the pasta and you put it in when it's like still way too al dente you had uh some more pasta water so you can just sort of keep adding plus water like you are going to do now alpha does it look creamy creamy it's very creamy i feel like i could cook it down a little bit more though i feel that actually he's pretty done because yeah see the second big mistake that a lot of people they do with pasta is cook the pasta too much pasta is good when is albente if it's mushy no it's not a good play-doh pasta okay are we ready to plate it absolutely yes and then on top the parsley [Music] i feel like i have a pun on the tip of my tongue about the name of this dish but i'm i'm losing it it just looks really good and i want to eat it it looks good it smells amazing this is your plato pasta oh thank you this time i go for this because why not bon appetito i love the tanginess of it it's seriously like if polo alacachitora one of my favorite dishes had a had a cousin or a brother in the pasta family is always a winner like as you said the pala la cachadora there are these simple traditional italian dishes that simple quick and super delicious give this one a try and if you do tag us in a picture on instagram or facebook pasta grammar we hope you guys enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up hit the subscribe button if you haven't already and we'll see you next time

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Length: 15min 57sec (957 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 12 2022