SicilianItalian
Pasta con le Sarde
by Salvo Guarneri · 49.2K subscribers on YouTube
A traditional Sicilian pasta dish with sardines, fennel, pine nuts, raisins, anchovies, tomato, and saffron, originating from Arab influence over 1000 years ago.
- Difficulty
- medium
Ingredients
11 items- Fresh Sardines
- Wild Fennel
- Olive Oil
- Onion
- Pine Nutsgenerous amount
- Raisinsgenerous amount
- Anchovies
- Tomato
- Saffrona pinch
- Caciocavallo di Modicafor grating
- Pasta150g per serving
Method
- Remove the head and spine from fresh sardines.
- Blanch the fresh fennel (finocchietto).
- Use the fennel water to cook the pasta to infuse flavor.
- Prepare the sauce (conza): fry onion in olive oil, add generous amounts of pine nuts and raisins, then add anchovies.
- Add the sardines to the sauce.
- Add tomato.
- Add the blanched fennel.
- Add saffron as the final ingredient.
- Ensure the sauce is abundant.
- Finish with grated caciocavallo from Modica.
- Serve the pasta with the sauce (150g pasta per portion).
Salvo Guarneri
Reviewer49.2K subscribers on YouTube37M total channel viewsBenvenuti nella Sicilia da mangiare. Guida ai ristoranti e tradizioni culinarie
