Sardine Pasta

Sardine Pasta is a quick, easy and completely delicious store cupboard recipe that you can throw together in just minutes. It's a great standby dinner, when you've not done the food shop yet!

We always have a couple of tins of Parmentier sardines in the kitchen cupboard. They're a fabulous standby dinner that's quick and easy, and canned sardines are healthy too!

We're usually torn as to whether to make a plate of sardines on toast, or throw together this panful of delicious sardine puttanesca style pasta sauce.

Usually the pasta wins if it's dinnertime, because what's better than a plate of carbs alongside a nice glass of wine?

This recipe serves two people, but it's easily doubled if you're cooking it up as a family meal.

Cooking Up A Pan Of Delicious Sardine Pasta For Dinner Is A Winner! Here's Why!

• You can make this canned sardine pasta recipe straight from the store cupboard.

• Canned sardines are nutritious, packed with Omega-3 fatty acids and so a great option for turning into a pasta sauce.

• Our sardine pasta is quick! Ready in just over 10 minutes, so it's perfect for busy weeknight cooking.

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These are the foodie bits and pieces we always keep in at home to make cooking a whole lot easier.

Equipment Needed

• Chopping board

• Vegetable knife

• Skillet pan or large frying pan

• Saucepan for the pasta

• Tablespoon

• Teaspoon

• Cooking spoon

• Colander

Ingredients For Sardine Pasta

You'll only need a handful of ingredients to make this delicious canned sardine recipe, and most of them are store cupboard ingredients.

• 200g tagliatelle - we use the dried pasta for this recipe
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 can Parmentier sardines - use the ones in olive oil with chilli.
• 250g passata
• 2 tablespoon pitted black olives
• 1 tablespoon capers
• ½ teaspoon chilli flakes - optional
• Salt and black pepper
• Handful of flat leaf parsley - chopped to serve

How To Make Sardine Pasta

Okay, you're going to just LOVE how quick and easy our sardine and tomato pasta is to prepare and cook!

Step One - put the pasta on to cook

• Cook the tagliatelle as per the packet instructions - we use dry tagliatelle so it takes around 10 minutes in boiling salted water. Fresh tagliatelle takes a lot less time.

Step Two - whilst the pasta cooks make the sardine pasta sauce

• Heat the olive oil in the large frying pan, and tip in the canned sardines. Add the oil and finely chop the chilli to if you like things extra spicy.

• Once you've fried the tinned sardines for a few minutes and broken them up in the pan, it's time to add the passata, black olives, capers and chilli flakes.

• Give everything a good stir up together to mingle all the flavours throughout the sauce. And season with salt and cracked black pepper.

• Simmer the sardine pasta sauce with the lid off for around 8 minutes, until the pasta has finished cooking.

Step Three - add the pasta to the sardine sauce

• Once the pasta is cooked, scoop out a tea cup full of water and then drain the pasta using the colander.

• Toss the pasta into the pan with the delicious sardine puttanesca sauce, and give everything a mix together so all the pasta is coated in sauce. If you need to loosen the sauce just add a splash of the pasta water you saved.

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Step Four - serve the sardine pasta

• Divide the pasta between the bowls and eat straight away, it's far to delicious to wait!

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• Rocket Salad
• Tomato Salad
• Air Fryer Asparagus

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