Spaghetti With Pilchards

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 14  ounces spaghetti
• 10  ounces  fresh pilchards
• 3 1⁄2 ounces wild fennel
• 1  ounce  pine seed
• 3⁄4 ounce raisins
• 4  anchovy fillets
• 1  white onion
•  extra virgin olive oil
•  salt & pepper

Directions

1. Wash well and finely chop the wild fennel.
2. Brown the chopped onion in a pan with abundant extra virgin olive oil, adding the fennel, the pine seeds, the raisins (which have been softened in lukewarm water then drained) and the anchovy fillets.
3. After a few minutes add the pilchards, which have been cleaned and boned and a little warm water; salt and pepper and bring the cooking to an end.
4. Boil the spaghetti in abundant salted water strain once they have reached optimum, firm consistency and flavor with the fish sauce.
5. Good appetite, from Franco B.