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In breve

The dish in short

  • Fresh sardines, cleaned and boned, cooked with onion, salted anchovies, small raisins and pine nuts, then with the wild fennel and saffron.
  • Wild fennel boiled for 15 minutes from the boil, and its water kept to cook the pasta.
  • Bucatini boiled al dente in the fennel water and dressed with the sauce.
  • Toasted breadcrumbs scattered over instead of cheese.
  • No tomato in this version: some versions add it, and some bake the dressed pasta in the oven.

Il video, Palermo, Sicilia

Pasta con le sarde

The video: Bucatini with fresh sardines, wild fennel, raisins, pine nuts and saffron, Palermo style

Bucatini boiled in the water of wild fennel and dressed with fresh sardines cooked with onion, melted salted anchovies, small raisins, pine nuts, the fennel and saffron, finished with toasted breadcrumbs: the pasta of Palermo, on Italy's national list of traditional food products. The video is an illustration; the recipe has the exact quantities, temperatures and times.

Serves
4
Hands-on
1 h 1 min
Cooking
36 min
Video
11 s

Passo dopo passo

The steps, in photos

The video shows the main moments; these are all 15 steps, as in the recipe.

Photos of steps 1, 2, 3
1Scale and gut the sardines2Bone them completely3Clean the salted anchovies
Photos of steps 4, 5, 6
4Put the water on5Trim the wild fennel6Chop the onion
Photos of steps 7, 8, 9
7Boil the fennel for 15 minutes8Lift out the fennel and cut it9Toast the breadcrumbs
Photos of steps 10, 11, 12
10Turn the onion golden11Melt the anchovies12Sardines, raisins and pine nuts: 10 minutes
Photos of steps 13, 14, 15
13Fennel and saffron, and the bucatini into the water14Drain the bucatini al dente15Dress and serve at once

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