Crazy Delicious Anchovies Pasta That Will Make Your Taste Buds Jump For Joy!

Spaghetti alla Natalina is an incredible, classic Neapolitan pasta dish. It is packed with delicious flavors and uses ingredients most of us have sitting in our pantry at home.
The real star of this dish comes from a surprising source: Anchovies. If you’re like me and you don’t love anchovies, don’t panic! Once this dish is fully cooked, the anchovies will be dissolved, and their flavors will incorporate into the sauce creating a flavor profile like no other.

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INGREDIENTS:
300 grams Spaghetti 11 oz Spaghetti
80 grams California walnuts 3 oz. California walnuts
1 handful Pine nuts
1 handful Sultanas
1 handful Halved black olives
Fresh chopped parsley as much as preferred
250 grams Cherry tomatoes 9 oz.
3-5 tbsp Passata or blended peeled tomatoes
2 Cloves of garlic
1 Chili pepper
2-3 Fresh anchovies
5-6 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil EVOO
Salt and pepper as much as required
1 handful Capers optional

METHOD:
To Make The Sauce:
1. Heat a pan on medium to low heat and add a drizzle of EVOO.
2. Add crushed garlic to the pan, plus a dash of water, to prevent it from burning.
3. Add chopped chilis and 2 to 3 anchovies.
4. Continue stirring the anchovies until they are completely dissolved into the liquid.
5. Once anchovies have disappeared, add the pine nuts, sultanas, crushed walnuts, and capers to the pan.
6. Continue stirring the ingredients together until they’re well combined.
7. Next, add the cherry tomatoes and let them to cook for at least 5 minutes.
8. After 5 minutes, gently press the tomatoes until they release their juice.
9. Add a splash of water to the tomato juice.
10. Now, add a few tbsps of passata to the sauce to make it thicker and creamier.
11. Add the halved olives and fresh parsley, stirring just for a minute.
12. Generously season with salt and pepper.
13. After the pasta has been cooked, add a cup of pasta water to finish the sauce.

To Make The Pasta:
1. Boil the water, adding a generous amount of salt.
2. Cook spaghetti according to the instructions on the box.
3. Reserve a small cup of pasta water.
4. Collect the pasta using tongs and a small strainer.
5. Add pasta to the pan with the sauce and mix togetherthoroughly.
6. If necessary, add a few more splashes of pasta water.
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HOW TO SERVE:
Spaghetti alla Natalina, a genuine Italian comfort food, serves as the ideal dish for any occasion. Moreover, it offers versatility as you can tailor the ingredients to match your preferences. Should you desire to elevate its gourmet allure, incorporate an abundance of capers and fresh parsley. Conversely, opt for simplicity by sticking to the classics – the decision rests entirely in your hands!

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0:00 How to Make Spaghetti alla Natalina
0:42 Ingredients for Spaghetti alla Natalina
2:02 How I Discovered Spaghetti alla Natalina
2:33 How to Make the Sauce
7:40 How to Cook Spaghetti
8:54 Combine the Sauce with Spaghetti
10:22 How to Plate Spaghetti alla Natalina
11:38 How to Eat Pasta, E ora si Mangia, Vincenzo's Plate

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[vincenzosplate]

This is a great popular Pasta dish from the region of Campania but I have never heard of it until I visited Naples. I believe it deserves to be enjoyed around the world so here is the recipe for you. Let me know what you think

[nancybyrd]

The Spaghetti alla Natalina kind of reminded me of Puttanesca. Very flavorful! Natalina is now on my list! Thanks again Vincenzo! And thank you VERY much for using a wooden spoon instead of a metal fork!

[ziosullivan]

My nonna does something similar during Christmas, she makes a tomato base sauce, with walnuts, black olives, figs, walnuts, and anchovies and has it mixed with spaghetti. It's delicious, especially when I have it once a year And that being Christmas

[cubanmama]

Great recipe! It reminds me of some of the Spanish dishes my family makes. I love cherry tomatoes in a sauce but hate the peels. So, when they are soft enough and the peels pulls away, I pluck them off with a pair of tweezers.

[RyllenKriel]

Some of the best dishes are classic "cleaning out the pantry" recipes. This looks delicious, thanks Vincenzo. I just need to pick up some fresh parsley, pine nuts and sultanas when I'm at the grocery later today and I can give this try over the weekend.

[jennifermays]

Made this last night, absolutely delicious. Never had anything like this, the nuts and sauce are just so simple and amazing. Thank you for the experience!

[jesusrosalessalinas]

Hello Vincenzo! I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge about Italian cuisine with the world! My wife spent some time living in Italy and every time I follow one of your recipes she is transported back to Italy. I thank you from the bottom of my heart!!

[berelinde]

This sounds heavenly! I love the contrast between the sweet sultanas and the briny capers and olives. You don't specify what kind you use, but I would go with something more assertive if I were cooking for myself or something milder like a castelvetrano if I were making it for my partner. Honestly, though, I would probably not make this for him. He's fine with the anchovies but the nuts and sultanas are dealbreakers. It's a texture thing. But I am going to make this tonight because he's out of town and everything is already in the pantry.

[RyanZaina]

Bellissima Vincenzo! The thing I find most interesting about this recipe is the combination of savoury (anchovies/capers/olives), sweet (sultanas/pinenuts/walnuts) & spicy (red chilli) ingredients. Fitting for a Christmas/winter dish!

[MikeBauman-jr]

Allow me to pay you the ultimate compliment: I find your preparations always make me hungry, even on a full stomach!

[yaroslavyaros]

This recipe is now one of my TOP favorites! THANK YOU

[danielstokoe]

Couldn't get thick spaghetti so I used thinish dried linguine, OMG the aromas and flavours !!! Absolutely brilliant dish vincenzo, 😋

[jondeiconic]

Hope 2024 will be a great year for you and your family. Chef Vincenzo and continue do your content and educate us more on italian original recipes.

[sharendonnelly]

This pasta dish is now on my New Year's "Gotta Make That" list. Have to get capers and anchovies, but have everything else. Love all the ingredients, too! My husband, well, if he doesn't know the anchovies are in there it will be fine, and he'll put the black olives aside and give them to me, which I will happily accept. Great recipe and great video, Vincenzo! Buon Anno!

[akankshadash]

Whoa... I had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that Anchovies can be incorporated in this manner.

Thank you so much for this recipe Vincenzo.

[swimminwitdafishes]

I’m 75 and have been cooking my grandmother’s recipes for over 50 years. This is something I will try even though I’m a little hesitant about the walnuts. As Mama Angie would tell us when we were little kids, “If you don’t like it you don’t have to eat it but you have to try it.” That included dishes like capuzzelle.

[TheRyder]

I was JUST thinking about anchovie pasta recipes last week. You are a mind reader. Can't wait to try it! Thanks!

[rickbooher]

Happy New Year to your and your family. May you next year graced with many blessings.

This pasta looked so good, I wish someone would invent smell a vision as I think the smell would make you mouth water as I am sure it did when you started to eat it. Unusually ingredients to find in a pasta but I am sure the balance of flavors were there. Anchovies and sultams/raisins two nuts and caper the salt briny taste mis with the tomatoes so much flavors buy I feel it gave levels of flavor and unami taste from the Anchovies. Wow.

[ronaldschipper]

Oooh, that was a very nice meal. Thanks for the recipe. Simpel, easy to cook and delicious.

[dsr]

Thanks for another recipe in which I can use the leftover anchovies from your puttanesca recipe! 👍 Will check your shop and Happy New Year!