Spaghetti alla Natalina is an incredible, classic Neapolitan pasta dish. It is packed with delicious flavors and uses ingredients most of us have sitting in our pantry at home.
The real star of this dish comes from a surprising source: Anchovies. If you’re like me and you don’t love anchovies, don’t panic! Once this dish is fully cooked, the anchovies will be dissolved, and their flavors will incorporate into the sauce creating a flavor profile like no other.

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0:00 How to Make Spaghetti alla Natalina
0:42 Ingredients for Spaghetti alla Natalina
2:02 How I Discovered Spaghetti alla Natalina
2:33 How to Make the Sauce
7:40 How to Cook Spaghetti
8:54 Combine the Sauce with Spaghetti
10:22 How to Plate Spaghetti alla Natalina
11:38 How to Eat Pasta, E ora si Mangia, Vincenzo’s Plate

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This is spaghetti a la Natalina oh yes beautiful colorful pasta and this makes you smarter the ingredients are very good for your brain oh yeah this pasta is from Naples this Neapolitan dish is easy it’s fast and all the ingredients that we have in this plate are in your

Pantry right now so you can make it right now look at that we put all the beautiful ingredients that belong to this pasta so good To make spaghetti a la Natalina we need spaghetti and we chose thick spaghetti nice spaghetto cuadrado thick try to find this because it makes a huge difference otherwise use normal spaghetti I’m using about 300 grams of pasta for two people here I have 80 grams of Californian walnuts a handful

Of less than one handful of pine nuts a handful of sultanas capers it’s up to you if you like neighbors if you don’t like them don’t use them or use less black olives cut enough some fresh chopped parsley one planet of cherry tomatoes which is

About 250 grams this is not part of the original recipe but I do like to add a few tablespoons of passata or Blended peeled Tomatoes I think it adds more flavors but it’s my choice two cloves of garlic one per person one nice strong red or chili pepper two anchovies you

Can use three if you like or you don’t use any if you don’t like anchovies I don’t love anchovies but this recipe needs anchovies because the anchovy will disappear in the pan they will give you amazing effect we also need about five or six tablespoons of extra virgin olive

Oil and salt and pepper let’s see the last time I was enabled my friend Virginia from the food blog La gustos idea which means the tasty idea she introduced me to this beautiful dish it was created by the farmers outside of Naples and it’s so simple so easy and

These are the ingredients that you have in your pantry you have in your kitchen so anyone can make it and I recommend you to go and check out the website my friend Eugenia website because she has the most beautiful authentic Southern Italian dishes now we put a pan on a

Medium low heat and we add the extra virgin olive oil this is nice enough guys you can see can you see how hot it is extra virgin olive oil is in there and we didn’t crush the garlic perfect I love my crushed garlic love it

So we don’t want the garlic to burn so we can add a splash of water that’s a little splash [Applause] Now we add the chili we add two anchovies What we do now is we move the anchovies around you will see they will disappear it’s amazing how this happens and Joey’s will disappear it will give the flavors to the oil make sure you do this on a very very low heat because the garlic can burn the flavors of the

Anchovies are very strong like I said I’m not a big fan of it of the anchovies but once the enjoy disappear these oil is gonna taste so good you don’t even know the anchovies wet in here the other disappearing another minute you won’t see them anymore

You feel like the oil is too hot add a little bit more water now press on the anchovies just like that you can see the oil is getting darker as well it’s getting darker because the anchovies I’m making the oil darker and tastier when you get to this point so you can

Show this disappeared So now is the time for us to add the other ingredients so now we put the pine nuts first put the Sultana we put the walnuts but I crushed them first before we put them in make sure you crush them Now we add the Capers you don’t have to use the cables but I think they’re very important here Master let’s make sure all these ingredients make love together they get the flavor from the oil pretty quickly stir we also want the pine nuts to toast a little bit

Do you believe we’re making pasta with nuts with sultanas this is incredible sounds like a salad but it’s not and this is old school this has been around for a long time if you see big pieces of Walnut you can just break them Now we want to add the sauce in there the sauce we’re going to get the sauce from the cherry tomatoes okay so here we go with the cherry tomatoes and now it will take about five minutes for the cherry tomatoes to release the juice and in about five minutes

We will going put pressure on the tomatoes so the juice will come out I like to add just a little bit of water just a little bit of water because this will help the juice come out of the cherry tomatoes quicker it smells very very nice so what we want to do at this point you see the juice from the cherry tomatoes you can also

Add a little bit more water to make it more more runny I guess but this is what we want to do now you want to press on the tomatoes because we want the juice to come out juice must come out now this is the time where I want to add three tablespoons of

Asada in this case this is Blended peeled Tomatoes actually I’m gonna put more put four now let’s do this yeah it’s nice we have a little bit of asada in this game I believe in the old days everyone had asada I believe everyone who lives outside Neighbors in the farms and

Pasada in the garage now we add the olives don’t forget they olives they don’t need to be cooked okay so they can go right at the end I’m gonna put some parsley be generous with the salt Be generous with the pepper Now we can mix and the sauce is ready so what we can do is now we can boil the pasta okay let’s boil the pasta And the sauce can rest now we need to boil the pasta so in boiling water we add one tablespoon

Of sea salt or rock salt now we can boil the spaghetti always read the instruction on the packet okay from the moment you put the pasta in the boiling water you start counting the time this pasta needs 13 minutes to be to boil and we’re gonna

Cook it for 30 minutes make sure the pasta is inside and every couple of minutes we go and stir just to make sure the spaghetti don’t get stuck to the bottom of the pot the pasta will be ready in two minutes so what we want to do is to get the pasta water

Very very important to get the pasta water and let’s um put the sauce back on the stove I want this to be nice and warm we add some pasta water in there don’t worry if you put too much because the pasta will absorb all the water okay Now we’re ready to add the pasta in this marvelous sauce come on collect the pasta this is how I like to do it you can use a colander up to you this is how I collect my pasta I want to be nice and gentle to this

Beautiful pasta because I need to make a pasta you cannot refuse don’t forget you can get this t-shirt online right now it can be a present for yourself for your family for your friends and I can guarantee you everybody will be stopping you on the street this is the moment we’ve been waiting

For hi pasta you ready to go in Quickly quickly mix everything together as you can see you need some more pasta water so don’t be shy with the pasta water this pasta will absorb all the water so don’t worry I think now we can toss there is no pecorino involved in here no parmesan involved in this recipe

You can put if you want but you don’t need to We’re ready to serve it this is old school pasta you know pork main food so you don’t need to be fancy but I’ve got this utensil I love to use it it’s a tweezer for for spaghetti and all the way in collect the pasta now we put it in the plate Look at that look at that thank you nice now on top and put all the beautiful ingredients that belong to this pasta Now to finish it off we put some parsley on my screen I know some of you might say oh I want to put cheese do whatever you want but you don’t need cheese This time of the video recipe eating time let’s see all these ingredients combine very well together Pasta perfection chili is very spicy the combination of ingredients is not I was expecting like too much it’s not they’re very delicate the walnuts take over of course because it’s a lot more than everything else but they are very nice delicate ingredients delicate is the word I want to use about this dish

Napoleon food it’s rich it’s full of amazing fresh ingredients but there is something I’ve noticed that old nail polish and dishes have in common delicate how these dishes are combined together who created this I don’t know how did that person come up with this idea I don’t know they do work so well

Together even Capers who have strong flavors and not taking over they’re just playing together working together to give me a beautiful culinary experience in my mouth I feel like my brain is already bigger and smarter because I never spoke this way I’m speaking in a beautiful way I’ve never done before so

The question is you want to become smart like me make this pasta now so good enjoying this I’m not even a big fan of walnuts to be honest but I’m I love it I love it in this dish so guys thank you so much for watching this

Episode let me know do you think the best Italian food come from Naples I’m starting to believe so because Naples never disappoint let me know what city or region of Italy you think makes the best food thank you so much for watching this episode I will see you in the next

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33 Comments

  1. This is a great popular Pasta dish from the region of Campania but I have never heard of it until I visited Naples. I believe it deserves to be enjoyed around the world so here is the recipe for you. Let me know what you think

  2. This pasta dish is now on my New Year's "Gotta Make That" list. Have to get capers and anchovies, but have everything else. Love all the ingredients, too! My husband, well, if he doesn't know the anchovies are in there it will be fine, and he'll put the black olives aside and give them to me, which I will happily accept. Great recipe and great video, Vincenzo! Buon Anno!

  3. I've learned what are the principles of la pasta and I make really satisfying pastas,durig my stay in Milan as a student, Thank you Don Vincenzo

  4. Love the recipe and Vincenzo's narration. Don't love the music. Just like ingredients: if it doesn't add to the overall dish, don't add it!

  5. Smell si good V… Love your fine recipe. Happy New Year to you. I have a rule: if any fish, see food is use for pasta = no cheese. As you said you can do what you want.

  6. Great recipe! It reminds me of some of the Spanish dishes my family makes. I love cherry tomatoes in a sauce but hate the peels. So, when they are soft enough and the peels pulls away, I pluck them off with a pair of tweezers.

  7. Pasta needs to coock … the water needs to be like sea salt, the paste needs a lota watarrrrr and it needs to coock😂 It needs a lota watarrrr, it needs to MOOOVEEE INNN THEREEE😂😂😂😂😂😂 TO MOOVE IN THEREEEE😊

  8. Happy New Year to your and your family. May you next year graced with many blessings.

    This pasta looked so good, I wish someone would invent smell a vision as I think the smell would make you mouth water as I am sure it did when you started to eat it. Unusually ingredients to find in a pasta but I am sure the balance of flavors were there. Anchovies and sultams/raisins two nuts and caper the salt briny taste mis with the tomatoes so much flavors buy I feel it gave levels of flavor and unami taste from the Anchovies. Wow.

  9. vincenzo… This is going to sound crazy, after starting off the dish as you did…then we came to the toasting of the slivered almonds and pine nuts in a separate pan (cuz my significant other was shouting at me to do so🤣),… I added pasquale's canned cherry tomatoes and the sauce left in the can…and fresh cherry tomatoes in a healthy amount of cherry-pie liqueur (don't ask me why other than I was staring at the bottle and the bottle spoke to me and said, "Giovanni….pleeeeeease"…
    (so…I caved in to my cave man desires)
    I reduced it…added a half a cup of pasta water.
    add plated it. Added some Pecorino, and toasted black pepper…
    Stop! call the police! I may now leave my significant other for a plate of pasta.
    🤣🤣🤣

  10. Hey Vincenzo, another great video I will be sure to try this. I love anchovies and this seems so simple and delicious!

    By the way, I watch this Korean chef a lot on YouTube named Paik Jong Won (he is extremely famous and respected in Korea and is basically the Korean Gordon Ramsay). He has a video where he makes a Korean-influenced Italian pasta with bulgogi, soy sauce, and other Asian ingredients. It is definitely not authentic but I've made it before and its delicious – however I'm dying to know what you think, and maybe you could even try making it! If you could do a reaction it would be very enjoyable. The video is in Korean but there are English subtitles. The title is: "Kang's Kitchen 3 Bulgogi Pasta, Making One Portion Of Kangbulpa" and the channel name is "백종원 PAIK JONG WON"

  11. Maybe it was just me. But i never heard of sultanas.

    For all you Yanks out there we call them golden raisins

  12. I live in Canada and while my favorite style of cooking is decidedly Italian, I have absolutely 0% Italian ancestry BUT, when Vincenzo suggested that ALL of the ingredients were in one's pantry, I decided to check. Aside from the fresh Italian parsley and the Tomatoes, everything was there (we are heading into winter here. Had this been summer, I would have had the parsley and tomatoes from my garden). So now I am going to liberate some of those ingredients and make this! Incidentally, the inclusion of the sultanas indicates that the origins of this dish are very old indeed. Adding dried fruits to otherwise savory dishes was quite common in medieval times and earlier, so "old school" it is in spades.

  13. A dried anchovie into an italian sauce is one of the worst kept secrets in cooking. This is probably why some of the videos you have reacted to have used W-sauce to your dismay; it's anchovie based. In fact, it's kind of a spiritual successor to the roman garrum, which would explain the Neapolitan taste for it.

  14. Hi, I love your videos, and since I've started buying La Molisana Spaghetti Quadrato, my life became better! 😄More italinan recipes please!

  15. Looks great. Basically it’s pasta alla puttanesca + walnuts + pine nuts + sultanas. Just as Cacio e pepe + Guanciale = pasta alla Grecia – and pasta alla Grecia + eggs = pasta Carbonara

  16. C'è qualcosa di magico nel tuo cibo. Apprezzo i tuoi sforzi; Mi chiedevo se potessi condividere un video di te che cucini con gli spettatori di KHAL

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  17. Well done Vincenzo, that was good to watch. Of course I think putting the almost cooked pasta in a strainer before you put it into the pan is ridiculous, because you can go straight from the pot to the pan, but otherwise great! P.S. I know you wouldn't do that normally and I think you should present these videos as if no one was watching, but I love your shows.

  18. I have heard the sentence "you can buy all the ingredients at you local supermarket" so many times, and most of the times, especially if it an american video, there are some of the ingredients that are almost impossible to get your hands on unless you live next to a Walmart, which would probably also sell nuclear bombs if the demand were high enough.
    The only ingredient in this video that might not be available in every supermarket in my country (Denmark), but still fairly easy to find, is the sultanas.
    But I guess that you could use raisins as a substitute, in case you are inable to find sultanas.

  19. I don’t love anchovies but you are absolutely correct on the fantastic depth of flavor that they add to the pasta sauce! Fabulous 😙 Happy New Year 🥂🍾🥳

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