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from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen – Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad (p114)

SWMBO’s favourite meal is puttanesca!

Something different, in that it adds tuna, chilli, preserved lemon and parmesan to standard puttanesca ingredients. But it breaches my puttanesca preferences, in that it includes onion, basil; and the pasta is baked.

Ingredients: orzo pasta; onion; garlic; chilli flakes; anchovies in oil; capers; preserved lemons; pitted Kalamata olives; canned tuna in oil; tomato paste; canned diced tomatoes; plum tomatoes; Parmesan cheese; basil

I chose the la Molisana Orzo (because it is bronze extruded) which normally cooks in 7 minutes, but the recipe calls for 30 minutes of baking, so one never ends up with al dente pasta, hence my dislike of baked pasta (other than in a lasagna).