Sardine Spaghetti

Ingredients

• 100 g sardines in oil
• 1/2 onion, diced small
• 1 tablespoon capers
• 2 anchovies (from a jar, in oil)
• 1 garlic clove, chopped
• 2 dried red chili peppers, crushed
• cherry tomatoes, a handful, halved
• fresh flat leaf parsley, a handful, chopped
• spaghetti
• fresh ground black pepper

Directions

1. 1

   Get the pasta cooking.

2. 2

   In another pan gently fry the chopped onion in the oil from the sardine tin - soften but don't let the onion colour.

3. 3

   Squish the anchovies into the pan.

4. 4

   Add the garlic, capers, chillis and tomatoes - stir.

5. 5

   Cook gently while your spaghetti finishes cooking.

6. 6

   Just as the spaghetti is ready, stir half a cup or so of the pasta water into the sauce, gently stir in the sardines and the parsley to warm the sardines through.

7. 7

   Drain the pasta and stir together.

8. 8

   Resist the urge to serve cheese over this.