Spaghetti with gourmet tuyo
Fillets of salted dried fish soaked in spicy olive oil are flaked and sauteed with cherry tomatoes, roasted garlic, onion, Thai basil and mint before cooked spaghetti is tossed in.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 125 grams spaghetti (4.4 oz)
- salt
- 6 to 8 fillets spicy gourmet tuyo (plus more to serve, optionally) flaked or chopped
- 2 to 3 tablespoons oil from the jar of gourmet tuyo
- 200 to 250 grams cherry tomatoes (7 to 8.8 oz) halved
- 6 cloves roasted garlic or 3 cloves fresh garlic
- 2 shallots peeled and thinly sliced
- 12 to 15 Thai basil leaves plus more to garnish
- 12 to 15 mint leaves plus more to garnish
- 2 to 3 tablespoons finely sliced scallions to garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Boil about six cups of water with a teaspoon of salt in a pot.
- In a saute pan, heat the oil from the jar of gourmet tuyo.
- To the hot oil, add the cherry tomatoes, shallots, garlic, Thai basil and mint. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, just until the leaves start to wilt.
- Add the gourmet tuyo and cook, stirring, for a minute.
- Add the pasta and toss.
- Serve the spaghetti with gourmet tuyo in shallow bowls. Optionally, top with sliced scallions and whole fillets of gourmet tuyo.
