Penonni with anchovy

Ingredients

Anchovies in olive oil.

Olive oil

Pennoni pasta the smooth kind

Mozzarella 

Some green for decoration {parsley}

Cooking.

Heat the water to boiling.

Add salt

Cook the Pennoni for 12 minutes like the box says.

After 6 minutes.

Warm up 2 tablespoons of olive oil

as they are warming up drop a few anchovies.

The heat should be medium.

The anchovies will melt into the olive oil

simply help them along with a wooden spoon and some stirring.

When the pasta is ready, keep 1 cup of pasta water and drain the pasta.

Throw the pasta on the oil with the anchovies and let it cook 

for a few seconds with limited moisture.

This will create the lovely browning you see in the photo.

When it is a little browned splash as much as think pasta

water and keep cooking. This will create a sauce.

If you like your sauce thick then not too much.

If you like it thin then more.

When you are done put it on a plate

and sprinkle some mozzarella and the chopped green parsley in my case.

It is an excellent pasta for lunch.