Pasta With Olives Piquant (moosewood)

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb spaghetti or 1 lb other pastas
• 1 1/2 cups assorted pitted olives
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
• 1/2 cup grated pecorino romano cheese (optional) or 1/2 cup parmesan cheese (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cook pasta until al dente.
• 2 finely mince olives.
• 3 combine oil and garlic in a heavy pan, heating over low heat until golden in color.
• 4 add red pepper flakes, olives and parsley.
• 5 stir constantly, cooking just until parsley wilts.
• 6 remove from heat.
• 7 before draining pasta, dip out 1 cup of the water.
• 8 drain pasta and transfer the noodles to your serving bowl.
• 9 toss in your olive sauce.
• 10 use a little of the cooking water that you saved to "wash" the remaining sauce out of the pan. toss the water/sauce mix into the pasta.
• 11 add more cooking water if your pasta seems dry.
• 12 top with grated cheese.