Pasta Burro e Alici (Pasta With Creamy Anchovy-Butter Sauce)

Butter, anchovies, and starchy cooking water come together to make a super-savory, creamy pasta sauce.

Pasta with Clams and Anchovies

While my grandmother was busy frying fish on Christmas Eve, she'd put together this easy pasta dish. It uses canned clams, which I've come to expect from this dish. If you don't care for canned clams, omit them or steam...

Spaghetti Puttanesca (Spaghetti With Capers, Olives, and Anchovies)

Pasta puttanesca is an easy weeknight spaghetti dish that packs an aromatic punch in its tomato sauce, thanks to garlic, anchovies, capers, and olives.

Pasta c'Anciuova e Muddica Atturrata (Sicilian Pasta With Anchovies and Toasted Breadcrumbs)

A deeply satisfying but simple Sicilian pasta, rich with tomato, anchovies, and toasted breadcrumbs.

Spaghetti with Cod, Rapini, and Garlic

This flavorful recipe for garlicky spaghetti with cod and rapini (broccoli rabe) is adapted from the Union Square Cafe in New York City.

Spaghetti con la Colatura di Alici (Pasta With Colatura)

Colatura is another umami bomb to add to your pantry, and plays an essential role in this easy and delicious weeknight pasta dish.

Bucatini with Spicy Shrimp, Arugula, and Breadcrumbs

At its base, this dish is about the interplay between sweet, plump shrimp and spicy red pepper flakes. The latter is cooked with sliced garlic until it perfumes the oil, so that every bite has its slight spark.

Rigatoni with Breadcrumbs, Rosemary, Garlic, and Parmigiano Reggiano

Rigatoni in a simple sauce of pasta water and cold sweet butter, topped with a crown of nutty breadcrumbs, almonds, garlic, rosemary, and Parmesan. Simple, but good.

Pasta chi Vruoccoli Arriminati (Sicilian Pasta With Cauliflower and Toasted Breadcrumbs)

Cauliflower cooked down into a savory-sweet sauce with Sicilian staples: anchovies, pine nuts, raisins, saffron, and toasted breadcrumbs.

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

How I Learned To Like The 1 Pasta I Hate I hate olives and I don't love anchovies, which makes Pasta Puttanesca one of the pastas I do not like. But today I'm going to see if there is a way to make it that I might enjoy.