Pasta de Sardine

• Use a large pot of water and bring it to a boil.
• Add salt to it.
• Once it’s simmering, add pasta and continue cooking for 8 minutes.
• Once it’s tender, set aside.
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.
• Add onions and cook until soft.
• Add some garlic until it’s fragrant.
• Stir the sardines in that sauce.
• When sardines are properly cooked reduce heat to low.
• Simmer until pasta is al dente.
• When it’s done, drain the pasta and add it to the sauce.
• Stir and cover.
• Turn off the heat.
• Squeeze lemon juice over the pasta.
• Set aside to lay at room temperature.
• Top it off with Parmesan cheese.

Trivia:

• It’s a staple item in most Italian dishes.
• The first literal reference to pasta is in an 1154 book.
• Pasta has two categories, fry and fresh.
• There are 600 different types of pasta.
• Macaroni, penne and spaghetti are the most popular pasta types.
• Fresh pasta is mostly served with meat such as ravioli.
• Properly cooked pasta should be really sticky.

The method of cooking pasta is known as al dente.