Pasta Putanesca Recipe: Puttanesca Sauce from scratch

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Pasta with Putanesca Sauce

start water boiling for linguine
when it boils, add linguine.

In the meantime...
Coarsely chop:
3 garlic cloves

sautee garlic with:
tin of anchovy fillets (cut up with kitchen scissors)

drain and wash:
can of black beans
2 or 3 tablespoons of capers

add, when anchovies are mush:
can of sliced stewed tomatoes
beans and capers

simmer a little to warm

ladle sauce onto linguine

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Special note: for years this recipe, for puttanesca sauce, has has been one of the most popular recipes on this site, the reason being that like all the people who have found it here through their trusty search engines, we didn't know the correct spelling for 'pasta puttanesca'. Well, it's too late to change it now, isn't it, otherwise how would everyone find the recipe?

p.s. Here's another thing we've learned (besides the correct spelling for puttanesca): you don't have to use kitchen scissors to cut up the anchovies — you can just mush them up with your wooden spoon while they're cooking.