Pasta with a Sauce of Tomato and Homemade Tonno sottOlio
- About 1 pound homemade Tonno sottOlio (page 10), in marinating oil
- About 3/4 cup marinating oil
- 1 medium onion, diced into 1/2-inch pieces (about 1 cup)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or more to taste
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup tiny capers in brine, drained
- 1/4 to 1 teaspoon dried peperoncino (hot red pepper flakes)
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 28-ounce can (3 cups) San Marzano or other Italian plum tomatoes, with juices, crushed by hand into very small chunks
- Hot water from the pasta-cooking pot
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
- Lift a few chunks of tuna from the oil and hold them over a bowl (dont wipe or drain themdrips of oil are fine).
- With your fingers, break the chunks into flaky bits, 3/4 inch wide or so, to get 4 cups total.
- Meanwhile, bring a pot of salted water to a boil, and start cooking your pasta shortly after youve started the sauce.
- Pour 1/3 cup of the marinating oil into a 14-inch skillet, scatter in the onion, and set over medium-high heat.
- Sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon salt, and cook, stirring, for 1 1/2 minutes or so, until the onion is sizzling.
- Clear one side of the skillet and drop in the capers, more or less according to taste, and stir to toast them in the hot spot for 1 1/2 minutes, then stir and cook with the onion for another minute.
- Drop in the flaked tuna and cook, still over medium-high heat, for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Sprinkle on another 1/4 teaspoon salt and the oregano.
- Let the tuna caramelize lightly but not darken.
- (If the pan seems very dry, add another tablespoon or two of oil.)
- Drop peperoncino, to taste, into a hot spot, and toast for a minute, then stir in with the other ingredients.
- Pour the crushed tomatoes and juices into the pan; slosh the tomato container with a cup or so of boiling pasta water and pour that in too.
- Now stir in 2 more tablespoons of tuna-marinating oil, and bring the sauce to an active bubbling boil.
- Cook for 10 minutes or more, at the same time as the pasta.
- Lift the pasta from the pot while it is still slightly undercooked, and drop it into the skillet of simmering sauce.
- Toss and cook pasta and sauce together until the pasta is fully cooked and the sauce coats it well and is not soupy.
- Remove from the heat, and toss pasta with the parsley; drizzle over another tablespoon or two of tuna-marinating oil, and toss again.
- Serve immediately in warm bowls.
marinating oil, onion, salt, tiny capers, peperoncino, oregano, san, water, fresh italian parsley
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pasta-with-a-sauce-of-tomato-and-homemade-tonno-sott-olio-384383 (may not work)