Pasta con le Sarde - Italian Recipe

Pasta con le Sarde

🌍 Italian, Sicily Difficulty: ●●●○○

Sicily's great baroque pasta, layered with sardines, wild fennel fronds, saffron, pine nuts, and currants. The wild fennel is essential — cultivated bulb fennel is not a substitute. The sardines should dissolve partly into the sauce, leaving a few pieces intact.

Ingredients

• 400g bucatini
• 400g fresh sardines, cleaned
• 1 onion, sliced
• 50g pine nuts
• 50g raisins, soaked
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• Saffron, fennel fronds
• Breadcrumbs, toasted

Method

1. Sautéing — Sauté onion; add fennel seeds, saffron, pine nuts, raisins.
2. Adding — Add sardines; cook until flaked. Season.
3. Tossing — Toss with pasta; top with toasted breadcrumbs.

Tags: bucatini, fresh sardines, onion, pine nuts, raisins · Source: Brittani's Almanac