Sicilian Sardine pasta
This simple Sicilian sardine pasta is packed with flavour, made from store‑cupboard essentials and ready in just 20 minutes – guaranteed to become a regular midweek staple. Tinned fish is an affordable, easy way to add protein to your diet, so shop tinned fish and explore more of our tinned fish recipes to prove that eating on a budget can still taste great.
- Serves2
- CourseMain meal
- Prepare5 mins
- Cook15 mins
- Total time20 mins
Ingredients
- 150g spaghetti
- 25g pine nuts
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 400g can peeled Italian cherry vine tomatoes
- 135g can Parmentier Sardines in Tomato Sauce
- 2 tbsp nonpareille capers in brine, drained
- 25g raisins
- Pinch chilli flakes
- ½ lemon, juice
- ½ x 25g pack flat leaf parsley, leaves roughly chopped
Method
Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and cook the pasta according to pack instructions.
Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the pine nuts, toast briefly, then tip onto a plate. Add the oil to the pan, tip in the cherry tomatoes and heat through, then add the sardines and their sauce and mash with a fork, keeping the texture chunky.
Simmer for a few minutes on a medium heat, then stir through the pine nuts, capers, raisins and chilli flakes and simmer for 2 minutes more.
Drain the pasta, reserving about 50ml cooking water. Add the pasta to the frying pan with the lemon juice, a little reserved pasta water and most of the parsley. Season. Toss everything together well, then serve with the remaining parsley sprinkled over.
Cook’s tip
To make this even quicker, you could use fresh spaghetti, which cooks in minutes.
Nutritional
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 2,616kJ/ 625kcals |
|---|---|
Fat | 29g |
Saturated Fat | 4.3g |
Carbohydrates | 62.3g |
Sugars | 17.7g |
Fibre | 7.2g |
Protein | 25g |
Salt | 2g |