Jump to Recipe SaveSaved! Pin Recipe This 'Dead Fly' Pasta makes a gross Halloween dinner! Ready in under 20 minutes.This is a great quick pasta dinner before you head out trick or treating or as a main course at your Halloween party.The 'flies' are black olives that make a delicious and easy pasta sauce when mixed with oil, garlic, anchovies, and pine nuts.

When it isn't Halloween, you can serve this just as Black Olive Pasta, and your guest will love it!  Halloween is so packed full of candy it is nice to have an easy savory Halloween meal up your sleeve.  P.S don't worry - the flies in these photos are plastic!  Jump Menu Making an easy black olive sauce for pastaRecipe NotesI hate anchovies!!What to serve with Black Olive PastaWhat wine to drink with the pasta'Dead Fly' Pasta Recipe Making an easy black olive sauce for pasta This is an almost effortless sauce.It comes together in the time it takes your pasta to cook.  You start by you toasting off some pine nuts, then cook some garlic in olive oil, melt in a couple of anchovies, add some chopped black olives, and finish with a little white wine.The sauce is then added back into the cooked pasta and a little pasta cooking water, and as the sauce is warmed through, it will evenly coat the pasta with flecks of black.

Finally, the chopped toasted pinenuts get added at the end of the dish to add a creamy crunch.A delicious pasta recipe that you can serve on Halloween as the flecks of chopped olives look

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