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Puttanesca sauce
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What is Puttanesca sauce?
A thick, flavorful Italian pasta sauce that includes capers, anchovies, olives, onions (or garlic). and tomatoes. There are other regional variations that include tuna. In Naples garlic is substituted for onions. The Tuscan version uses fresh basil leaves. The traditional pasta would be spaghetti.
The word puttanesca translates to "of the whore". One version of the history is that the sauce is reported to have received its name from the "street walkers" who would want to make a quick tasty meal after a nights work. Other stories claim that the women would make the aromatic pasta to entice customers.
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