How to cook spaghetti with wild herbs: ingredients and preparation
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Spaghetti with wild herbs is a simple dish to prepare that allows us to rediscover old flavours from untamed nature.
How to cook spaghetti with wild herbs: ingredients and preparation
Spaghetti with wild herbs is a simple dish to prepare that allows us to rediscover old flavours from untamed nature.
Ingredients for 4 people for spaghetti with wild herbs
- 350 g of spaghetti, although any other type of pasta works fine
- tender tips of nettle
- a bunch of chives
- black olives
- capers in salt
- extra virgin olive oil
- chilli pepper
- garlic
How to prepare spaghetti with wild herbs
Wash the nettle tips thoroughly (wearing gloves) and the chives. Chop them and place them in a saucepan with the black olives cut into pieces, the chopped garlic, and the capers (soaked and rinsed to remove the preserving salt).
Braise everything over a high heat for about ten minutes, adding the crumbled chilli pepper. Cook the spaghetti in plenty of salted water, drain and mix into the braised herbs.
Variations
This first course can become a hearty one-dish meal with the simple addition of a few handfuls of grated pecorino.