Ingredienti per 2 people
Preparation time: 35 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
INGREDIENTS
- Delicius Anchovies from Sicily, 6/8 fillets;
- Paccheri pasta, 150 g;
- White onion, ½;
- Butter, 40/50 g;
- Orange zest, ½;
- Tomato paste, 100 g;
- Raisins, 20 g;
- Pine nuts, 20 g;
- Bread, 2 slices;
- Salt;
- Pepper.
PREPARATION
- Soak the raisins in warm water so that they rehydrate.
- Chop 4 anchovies very finely.
- Flavor the butter, already soft, with the orange zest and chopped anchovies and put the rest of the butter in the refrigerator to cool before being spread on croutons.
- In a pan, sauté the onion, finely chopped, with half of the prepared butter.
- Add the tomato paste and two ladles of hot water and stir.
- Cook the paccheri pasta directly in the pan with the sauce adding one ladle of hot water at a time as if it were a risotto.
- Toast the bread slices in the pan for a couple of minutes.
- Add raisins and pine nuts adjusting salt and pepper if necessary.
- Let it cook for about ten minutes so that the sauce thickens.
- Serve the paccheri c’anciova together with the two croutons spread with the rest of the flavored butter, which will accompany the dish and create a pleasant play of temperatures, between hot pasta and cold butter, and different textures.
