Aglio e olio Spaghetti Aglio e Olio - easy delicious pasta with shrimp, olive oil, garlic and chili flakes. Aglio e olio spaghetti is also speckled with red pepper flakes, which gives the recipe a subtle heat. Aglio e Olio Mondays used to be a thing in our house, but we drifted away from that, replacing it with Aglio e Olio means oil and garlic, and that's almost all there is to it.

Ingredients of Aglio e olio

  1. You need 16 oz of dry noodles (usually spaghetti but I used linguine).
  2. It's 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
  3. Prepare 6 cloves of garlic, thickly sliced.
  4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of red pepper flakes.
  5. Prepare 2 of anchovy fillets or 1 tsp anchovy paste.
  6. It's 1 cup of grated parmesan.
  7. It's Handful of fresh parsley, chopped.

Aglio e olio step by step

  1. Boil the noodles about a minute short of their package directions. While you wait, move on to the sauce..
  2. Add the olive oil to a large pan on medium heat. Add the garlic and fry gently for 1 minute. Add the pepper flakes and stir in the anchovy (if using fillets, break them up into the oil). Cook until the garlic is soft and caramel coloured. Stop them from browning further by adding a few splashes of the pasta cooking water. Let the sauce simmer..
  3. When the noodles are almost cooked, drag them into the pan of sauce, reserving a cup of the cooking water. Add most of the parmesan and parsley to the noodles and toss. Add salt to taste. If needed, add the cooking liquid a splash at a time to loosen the pasta. Serve with a sprinkle of the remaining cheese and parsley..

Check out this simple, classic recipe for spaghetti aglio e olio. The recipe uses minimal ingredients and makes a quick and easy dinner. Italian restaurant in Penedo, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Spaghetti aglio e olio is a traditional Italian classic pasta dish which means spaghetti with garlic and oil. If you love garlic, then you will love this dish.

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