ZITI
AL FORNO ALLA MERETRICE
(BAKED
ZITI WITH HARLOT SAUCE)
Contributed by: Harold and Maxine Caprara
Ingredients:
4 cups of Harlot
Sauce (recipe below)
3 tbsp butter
¼ pound provolone
cheese, grated
1 lb ziti
Directions:
Prepare harlot sauce. Place 2 tbsp of butter and half the grated cheese in a hot bowl. Cook ziti until half done, or very chewy, and drain. Toss with the butter and cheese. Place one third of the hot sauce in a buttered casserole; add ziti. Spoon the remaining sauce over the ziti, sprinkle with the rest of the cheese and dot with remaining butter. Bake in preheated 400° oven for 15 minutes, until cheese is melted and golden, and ziti are properly al denté.
Ingredients:
2 garlic cloves,
minced
2 tbsp olive oil
8 anchovies, cut
into pieces
4 ½ cups Italian
plum tomatoes, pushed through food mill
8 stuffed green
olives, sliced
8 pitted black
olives, sliced
1 tsp capers
1 tsp dried sweet
basil
¼ tsp (or a pinch
of) red pepper
Directions:
Sauté garlic in oil until soft; add anchovies. When anchovies have broken apart, add the tomatoes; simmer for 10 minutes. Blend in olives, capers, basil and red
pepper. Simmer in uncovered pan for 20
minutes or until sauce is thickened.
Sauce can be served over any
kind of pasta