Slut's Spaghetti

Pasta Puttanesca/Whore's Pasta or Slut's Spaghetti, as Nigella calls is a super-easy pasta sauce that the "ladies of the night" put together from cans and leftovers in between "entertaining" gentleman callers. I got intrigued by this dish when I saw in one of Nigella's Show on the Cooking Channel sometime ago.

Almost 90% of the ingredients are from cans.As a rule I don't prefer to use canned foods except rarely evaporated milk,crushed tomatoes but for this dish, I made an exception. My hubby who came into the kitchen while I was in the midst of opening all the jars asked me if I can't make this dish with fresh ingredients. If I did I couldn't call this as Slut's Spaghetti or Could I? Sending this as an entry to Forever Nigella - Ciao Italia event hosted at Maison Cupcake.

Ingredients:

• 2-1/2 Cups Hunt's Canned Tomatoes
• 5 Pieces Canned King Oscar Brisling Sardines
• 1/4 Cup Black Pearl Pitted Black Olives
• 5-6 Sclafani Pimento Stuffed Spanish Manzanilla Olives
• 4 Pieces of Dole's Pineapple rings, roughly cut
• 4 B&G Hot Cherry Peppers( or as needed) along with the Vinegar Brine from the bottle, de-seeded and finely chopped
• 1/2 Pound Colavita Whole Wheat Spaghetti
• 1/2 Green Pepper, thinly sliced
• 1 Small Onion, finely chopped
• 3 Cloves Garlic, roughly minced
• 2-3 Tbsp Olive Oil
• Salt as needed

Procedure:

• In a steel skillet warm 3 tbsp of oil,add the minced garlic,chopped onions, sliced green peppers and sardines. Saute until the sardines are crumbled and the onions and browned.

• Pour 2-1/2 cups of canned tomatoes and chopped hot peppers along with the vinegar brine its been soaking in. Sprinkle very little salt and lid the pan. Cook for about 10 minutes or so. Meanwhile, salt a huge pot of water and bring to a roiling boil.Add the pasta and cook till "Al Dente"

• Add the olives and pineapple to the skillet and stir gently. Check for salt before throwing in the pasta.




• Serve hot and watch it disappear.

Note:

• The Pimento stuffed olives are extremely salty. So go easy on the salt.
• When adding the hot peppers make sure to add the vinegar brine to the sauce. It adds a unique taste to the sauce.
• For a completely vegetarian option skip the sardines.

Enjoy!