In Italian, this sauce is called Sugo alla puttanesca and it dates back more than half a century along with its very colourful history. Our tuna puttanesca is a little spicy, somewhat salty and quite fragrant. Traditionally served with spaghetti, however, it also goes well with just about any other pasta.

Did you know: Spaghetti alla puttanesca “spaghetti in the style of a prostitute” in Italian, is an Italian pasta dish invented in Naples in the mid-20th century. Its ingredients typically include tomatoes, olive oil, anchovies, olives, capers and garlic, in addition to pasta. Various recipes in Italian cookbooks dating back to the 19th Century describe pasta sauces very similar to a modern puttanesca sauce under different names. Among the earliest dates from 1844, when Ippolito Cavalcanti, in his Cucina teorico-pratica, included a recipe from popular Neapolitan cuisine, calling it Vermicelli all’oglio con olive capperi ed alici salse. After some sporadic appearances in other Neapolitan cookbooks, in 1931 the Touring Club Italiano’s Guida gastronomica d’Italia lists it among the gastronomic specialties of Campania, calling it “Maccheroni alla marinara”, although the proposed recipe is close to that of a modern puttanesca sauce. In Naples, this type of pasta sauce commonly goes under the name aulive e chiapparielle (olives and capers). Source Wiki