Vegetarian Puttanesca

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 7-8 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 cup pasta sauce
  • 1 cup cherry/grape tomatoes, halved
  • 2 teaspoons capers
  • ¼ cup black olives (pitted)
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • ½ teaspoon crushed red chili flakes
  • ½ teaspoon cumin powder
  • zest of one lemon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
  • 9 oz dried pasta (orecchiette or penne)
Vegetarian Puttan

Instructions

  1. In a pan, heat oil and sauté crushed garlic until golden brown.
  2. Add pasta sauce, paprika, crushed red chili flakes and cumin powder.
  3. Cook for about 10 minutes until sauce thickens. Stir occasionally.
  4. Add grape/cherry tomatoes, capers and olives into the sauce.
  5. Add salt and sugar.
  6. Cook for a further 5 minutes.
  7. Stir in half chopped parsley.
  8. Add lemon zest.
  9. Boil pasta as per instructions on the packaging.
  10. Once pasta is cooked, stir pasta through the sauce.
  11. Garish with drizzle of olive oil, grated parmesan cheese and remaining chopped parsley.

Serves 4

Recipe by DiMare Fresh’s Deepa Dayal