If there is one staple at home, it is undoubtedly pasta with tomato sauce. Young and old alike enjoy a good plate of homemade fresh pasta with natural tomato sauce. If you are looking for an easy and quick recipe for any meal, these spaghetti with tomato and crispy capers that I am sharing with you tick all the boxes. Preparing this dish is not difficult at all and the result is delicious. If you also feel like making fresh pasta at home, you will earn a round of applause, although with this homemade tomato sauce any pasta tastes absolutely wonderful.
To give it a different touch, we will add fried capers and toasted pine nuts just before serving. You will see what a success it is, as the fried capers bring a crispy texture to the dish and, together with the toasted notes of the pine nuts, intensify the flavour of the sauce. These two ingredients, cooked in this way, turn a delicious plate of pasta with homemade tomato sauce into a perfectly balanced recipe. You are going to love it!
So that you can enjoy a delicious plate of spaghetti with tomato and crispy capers, here is the recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped, pressed or grated
- 1 tablespoon tomato purée
- 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 200 ml vegetable stock
- 800 g grated fresh tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon agave syrup or mild honey
- 1 tablespoon dried Mediterranean herbs (thyme, oregano and rosemary)
- 1 bay leaf
- 400 g spaghetti (or any other pasta, preferably long)
- 100 g capers in brine
- 100 g pine nuts
- 1 level tablespoon plain flour
- 50 g Parmesan cheese
- 10–15 g fresh basil
Method
- Heat 3 tablespoons of olive oil in your Essential Black Fissler ceramic frying pan and add the chopped garlic and onion. Sauté over a medium heat for about 3 minutes.
- Add the tablespoon of tomato purée and stir well. Deglaze with the vegetable stock, stirring to combine all the ingredients.
- Now add the grated tomatoes, agave syrup, dried herbs and bay leaf. Season with salt and pepper and stir before covering. Let the sauce cook over a low heat for about 15 minutes, stirring from time to time.
- Heat the water to cook the pasta in your Pure Fissler stainless steel pot with glass lid and add the spaghetti when the water comes to the boil. Cook according to the instructions on the packet.
- While the pasta is cooking, drain the capers and rinse them in a colander. Let them drain and dry them thoroughly with kitchen paper.
- Heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a ceramic frying pan and fry the capers for a few minutes until crispy.
- Remove the capers from the pan and place them on absorbent paper. Set aside.
- Wipe the oil from the pan and toast the pine nuts, stirring constantly, for a few minutes until they start to turn golden.
- Drain the spaghetti and plate up. Spoon a generous amount of sauce over each portion, add some capers and a few pine nuts. Sprinkle with shavings of Parmesan and serve with a few fresh basil leaves on top.
Suggestions
- If you feel like making fresh pasta at home, you can see here how easy it is. The result is well worth it.
- You can make this tomato sauce and freeze it. That way you can enjoy a good plate of pasta with tomato sauce whenever you fancy it, in just a few minutes.
