This Puttanesca Sauce recipe was originally published to my account on Instagram. I have also posted it here so that you only have one place to look to fine all mezze & tapas recipes. My Instagram recipes are not accompanied by a full blown blog post. They often have comments or notes, but not a full post. Find a full list of my recipes here.
A quick and easy sauce to make for pasta is a Puttanesca sauce. It works well with lots of different pasta shapes. I made it with my homemade pasta cut as fettucini. Puttanesca recipe is below and is for 2 – 3 people.
According to Wikipedia, Puttanesca sauce is a relative newcomer to the table of Italian cuisine. Although there are similar recipes dating to the mid nineteenth century, the dish as we know it today originated in Naples in the mid twentieth century.
Some refer to Puttanesca sauce as “whore’s sauce” because of the close relationship between the sauce’s name, and the Italian word for prostitute. I don’t fully buy that explanation, and find it demeaning. I am rather more comfortable with the explanation of the names origin here on this site from the History Channel. Regardless of what you believe the name to mean, I am sure that you will find the sauce a delicious addition to your repertoire.
