Notes to recipe: orecchiette pasta combines very well with strong flavor ingredients. The anchovies are used in many recipes of all Italy and also in Apulia are used for this strong sauce. Anchovies sauce is made with canned anchovies. You can use either whole salted anchovies or anchovies fillets packed in oil. Anchovies sauce can be combined also with spaghetti, but with a very different taste, because the thick shape of orecchiette and the different flavour of the fresh semolina flour. Anchovies sauce is suitable to be combined also with every kind of homemade pasta of semolina flour, and dried pasta., but not with egg pasta.