Recipe: Fresh spaghetti with green olives

Name: Fresh spaghetti with green olives
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Fresh spaghetti with green olives - for 4 persons; 17.75 oz (500 g) grams of fresh spaghetti; 3.5 oz (100 g) of stoned/pitted small green olives; 1.75 oz (50 g) of dried preserved tomatoes; 1.1 oz (30 g) of anchovy filets preserved in oil; 0.4 oz (10 g) of capers; a few leaves of basil; 8 centiliters of olive oil; table salt and freshly ground black pepper

By chef patrick Asfaux 4.9/5 (22 reviews) · 🍳 12 made it

Prep 10 min

Cook 15 min

Total 25 min

Servings 4 serv.

Ingredients for 4 servings

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Fresh spaghetti with green olives - for 4 persons

17.75 oz (500 g) grams of fresh spaghetti
3.5 oz (100 g) of stoned/pitted small green olives
1.75 oz (50 g) of dried preserved tomatoes
1.1 oz (30 g) of anchovy filets preserved in oil
0.4 oz (10 g) of capers

a few leaves of basil

8 centiliters of olive oil

table salt and freshly ground black pepper

Step-by-step directions

1 Make 5.25 qt (5 liters) of water boiling

2 While water is heating, heat the olive oil in a pan, add the olives, the anchovy filet cut in 2 parts, the dried tomatoes cut in big dice and the capers

3 Let them sweat in the covered pan during 5 minutes

4 When the water is boiling, salt it and pour the spaghetti making them standing up, then stir with a fork and count 2 minutes of cooking after water is boiling again

5 Quickly drain the spaghetti and add the foodstuff prepared in the pan, blend quickly with a wooden spoon, add (very few) table salt and some black pepper

6 Place the spaghetti very hot in a large hollow dish with minced basil leaves and eat it with a good Bandol (rosé wine from the Provence area) this nice beautiful and friendly dish