If you love tomato pasta sauces, also try our easy homemade spaghetti sauce and our Italian sausage pasta! It has a big, robust flavor that’s easy to fall in love with. This is not a heavy-handed portion of a tomato-based sauce weighing down a few noodles, like we here in North American love our spaghetti. Pasta puttanesca is a much smaller amount of an incredibly flavorful sauce that lightly wraps itself around each noodle so even if you can’t see the sauce, you can taste it. It’s heavenly. Puttana is a derogatory word for ladies of the night, and one story says that this recipe is so quick and easy to make that the ladies were able to whip it up between clients. Another version tells the story that a group of the ladies visited a restaurant late at night and, with little left in his kitchen, the chef made this with the few ingredients he had left. There is even a story about how the ladies would place pots of puttanesca sauce in their windows to lure in men. And that’s it! With little more effort than it takes to open a jar, you’ve just made yourself an incredible pasta dinner! If you like to meal-prep, the sauce freezes beautifully!
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