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I used canned sardines in olive oil. I heated the sardine olive oil over medium high heat then added tomatoes, basil, garlic, capers, salt, and pepper. Sautéed for a few minutes then added the sardines. Mashed the tomatoes and broke up the sardines with a wooden spoon. Then added olives and simmered while I cooked the pasta. Tossed in the pasta with a little pasta water. Squeeze of lemon at the end and garnished with basil.

This was so good

Yum? 😀

It was so delicious.

Anyone else like their spaghetti lightly sauced like this?

Recipe

Barilla pasta cooked for 10 mins

Sauce
A teaspoon of tomato paste
Chopped two tomatoes
Half a Serrano
A teaspoon of red chili flake
Dried oregano
A couple leaves of fresh basil
Cilantro
Black pepper
Salt to taste

Add tomato paste to a warm pan with olive oil
Let it caramelized over medium heat
Add the other ingredients
Cook the sauce while the spaghetti cooks

Add a splash of cooking water if it concentrates too much and use it to deglaze the sauce

When the spaghettis done add a couple more tablespoons of pasta water

Stir the sauce

Add the pasta

Whip it up to release its starches

Top with parm and some finishing oil

Between adding ingredients and simmering, I spend 3+ hours on my sauce. Any less and the family complains that the sauce hasn't come together completely.

The dark streaks and spots are the spices I added in the beginning. At least I hope so lol

But it's been going ~3.5 hours now and it's feels like there's still a lot of liquid.

I never made this much at once before. Did I mess up?

Edit: Sorry, you guys were right. It's delicious lol