Siciliana sauce for pasta

Submitted by stephanie

"A perfect sauce for pasta......a favorite with spaghetti"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 10 anchovies
• 1 cup black olives, pitted and chopped
• 1 tablespoon capers
• 1⁄3 cup olive oil
• 2 onions, chopped
• 1 small eggplant, peeled and chopped
• 1 red pepper, chopped
• 5 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 cans tomatoes (with the juice)
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1⁄4 cup red wine
• 1 cup fresh basil, chopped
• 1 pinch red pepper flakes
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1⁄4 cup fresh parsley
• salt and pepper

directions

1. In a deep pot, heat oil over medium-high heat.
2. Add onions, eggplant and red pepper.
3. Cook until eggplant is soft.
4. Add garlic, tomatoes, sugar, wine and pepper flake.
5. Crush tomatoes with a fork.
6. Bring to a boil.
7. Put heat on low and let simmer for 45 minutes.
8. Add anchovies, capers, tomato paste, basilic and parsley.
9. Add salt and pepper, cover and cook 5 minutes more.

Reviews

[mianbao]

This makes very good sauce! I only made 1/2 batch, because of the number of diners. I also used 3 small Japanese eggplants, without peeling. I followed the recipe's ingredients and proportions other than that. I do think that the sauce I made could have been more strongly flavored. This may be because of the amount of eggplant. Also, my anchovies seemed very small. Next time I will use more anchovies and red pepper flakes to make a more strongly flavored sauce. However, the sauce I did make disappeared very quickly, and was a lovely dinner. Thank you very much for sharing this delicious recipe with us.