Orecchiette puttanesca with Lebanese green olives is a wonderful all-in-one-pan recipe adapted from Ottolenghi’s Flavour. Eating pulses with pasta is common in Italy and Lebanon, great comfort food, and highly nutritious.
Here the dish is full of flavour all the more so with the added brine from the olive jar. Too good to waste, don’t throw it away once the olives are finished. Keep it in the fridge and add it to soups and stews! Ottolenghi suggests cooking the pasta in chicken stock, but for a more vegan friendly touch, we used water and some brine from the olive jar, and it tasted delicious.
serves 4
ingredients
50ml Zejd extra virgin olive oil plus 2 tbsp to serve
6 cloves of garlic, crushed
400g tin of chickpeas (or 200g soaked overnight and boiled the next day til soft) pat dry with a clean tea towel
2tsp hot smoked paprika
2tsp ground cumin
3/4 tsbp tomato paste
40g parsley, roughly chopped
2 tsp lemon zest
3 tbsp baby capers
125g Zejd green souri olives, pitted and chopped in half
250g small, sweet cherry tomatoes
2 tsp caster sugar
1/2 tbsp caraway seeds, lightly toasted and crushed
250g dried orecchiette
500ml water + 200ml brine from olive jar
salt and pepper
method
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