This pasta puttanesca recipe stars a flavorful tomato sauce packed with garlic, olives, and capers.Perfect for weeknights, it's ready in 30 minutes! Jump to recipe Pasta puttanesca is a perfect example of what I love about Italian cooking. This Southern Italian dish features a garlicky tomato sauce spiked with briny olives, capers, and anchovies.It requires simple ingredients and minimal prep, but it still delivers rich, bold flavor.I shared a puttanesca recipe with zucchini noodles in Love & Lemons Every Day, but since this classic pasta is one of my weeknight favorites, I thought it was about time I shared a more traditional recipe too.

It calls for 10 ingredients, cooks in under 30 minutes, and is absolutely delicious.I hope you love it as much as I do! What does puttanesca mean?The Italian word puttanesca translates to “in the style of a prostitute.” I only learned this recently, and after enjoying pasta puttanesca for years, I was intrigued—how did this dish get its name?Well, it seems to be up for debate.One theory goes that its pungent aroma was designed to draw customers into brothels of the Spanish Quarters of Naples.

Another suggests that a chef from Ischia made the first pasta puttanesca when a hungry crowd of customers arrived at his restaurant late at night and he had to improvise a meal using pantry staples.Whether or not either story is true, it seems likely that pasta puttanesca originated in Italy’s Campania region in the mid-20th cen

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