Mediterranean Pasta with Capers
This quick and easy store cupboard supper summons the seductive scents and flavours of the Mediterranean - without you even having to leave home!
- NF VE
This easy midweek meal is a Mediterranean pasta recipe that represents a great way to serve up fresh homemade food without much effort. The ingredients call up all of those glorious Mediterranean smells and flavours that I miss sometimes back in the UK, too. If you’re in desperate need of a holiday, this is a nice way to summon up your senses and ‘get away’ (at least in your imagination) - for one meal! A Mediterranean vegetarian pasta is sometimes what I crave, and this ticks all the boxes for me - I hope it does for you, too.
I tend to make this using spaghetti or linguine, but any pasta will do (although I enjoy the way the sauce sticks to longer strands rather than tubes or shapes, anything will do!). Make sure not to turn your oil too high, as scorched garlic at step one will ruin the gentle Mediterranean flavours you’re trying to conjure here. A tip? Don’t turn on your pan and add the oil until your garlic is chopped and ready to go! This is a real store cupboard supper. It’s easy to get good quality olives in jars now, and these last such a long time that they’re a real staple for me, alongside capers, for adding that salty savouriness that goes so well with the Mediterranean flavours of olive oil, garlic, oregano and tomato. During the summer, if you have a glut of tomatoes or see lots of UK-grown tomatoes on offer, why not make some sun-dried tomatoes yourself? Pasta with homemade sun-dried tomatoes is even more special! We have a how to make sun-dried tomatoes recipe on the blog, and it truly isn’t as complicated as you might think!
Ingredients
Tips
If you prefer to use fresh tomatoes instead of tinned ones, grate 4-5 midsized ones and skip the added preservatives of the tin.
Directions
You will need about 30 minutes to make 5 servings of this recipe, which has approximately 607 calories each. Make sure you have all the ingredients and follow these 7 simple steps. If you have any questions, send me an email and I’d be more than happy to help!
Add the olive oil to a pan and sauté the garlic and sun-dried tomatoes for 2 minutes over medium heat.
Continue by adding the chopped tomatoes, salt, pepper and oregano and let them simmer for 10 minutes.
The sauce is almost ready, add the chopped olives and capers, simmer for 5 more minutes and set aside.
Cook your favourite type of pasta following the pack instructions.
Before draining them, save a ladle of their water.
Drain the pasta and return to the pot, add the sauce and the pasta cooking water and toss everything together well.
Serve as it is or sprinkled with freshly grated Parmesan.
Watch it step-by-step!
Mediterranean Pasta with Capers
This Mediterranean pasta with capers is a quick, easy midweek meal that calls on all my store cupboard staples. It also helps me escape to the Med - at least in my mind!
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Made this last night and it was DELICIOUS! Didn’t have sun-dried tomatoes so just added a few fresh cherry tomatoes instead (didn’t have time to dry them in the oven, but I’ll try that another time). Thanks for sharing the recipe!
We loved this one! Full of flavor!!!
Very easy to follow and delicious recipe. Thank you Sevi 🙏
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