Sicilian Pasta Salmon Sauce

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (2 ounce) can anchovy fillets, undrained, or to taste
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon tomato paste
• 1 (7.5 ounce) can salmon, undrained, or more to taste
• 1/2 (7.5 ounce) can water
• 1/4 cup pine nuts, or to taste
• 1/4 cup raisins, or to taste
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 pinch saffron
• 1 (16 ounce) package spaghettini

Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins Ready Time: 1 hr


• pour about 2 teaspoons oil from anchovy can into a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion in the hot anchovy oil until softened, about 5 minutes. add anchovy fillets; cook and stir until fish dissolves, about 5 minutes.
• stir tomato paste into onion-anchovy mixture; add juice from canned salmon, water, pine nuts, raisins, salt, and black pepper. cook and stir mixture until flavors have blended, about 15 minutes.
• bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. cook spaghettini in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 12 minutes. drain.
• mix salmon and saffron into onion-anchovy mixture; cook until salmon is heated through, about 15 more minutes. serve salmon sauce over spaghettini.