Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon) Serve this along with some toasted cheese garlic bread and a refreshing salad for a fulfilling meal. Aglio e Olio is a humble Napoli dish consisting of pasta, olive oil, cheese and dried red chili flakes, glistening with reserved pasta water. If you haven't added pasta water to your kitchen.

Ingredients of Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon)

  1. It's of High Quality Rapeseed Oil.
  2. It's 8 of Large Garlic Cloves.
  3. It's Teaspoon of Chilli Flakes.
  4. Prepare of Linguine.
  5. It's of Parsley.
  6. You need of Salt and Pepper.
  7. You need 2 of Rashes of Smoked Bacon.

Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon) step by step

  1. In a large saucepan cover base with rapeseed oil and put on a medium high heat till it shimmers. Whilst waiting finely chop the garlic cloves before adding to the oil until softened and brown around the edges. Take off the heat and add chilli flakes..
  2. Boil linguine in salted water until just under aldente. Save at least one cup of pasta water for sauce. Finely slice the smoked bacon into small squares, before cooking off in a separate pan..
  3. Add the bacon and pasta to the oil, garlic and chilli flakes and allow the flavours to get to know each other. Add small amounts of the pasta water to help create a sauce to cover the pasta..
  4. Season with salt and pepper to taste until the pasta is cooked. Plate up, sprinkle over some parsley and serve immediately. This is best eaten straight away!.

I love spaghetti aglio e olio and if you add prawns to this… amazing. This pasta may be difficult to pronounce for some but easy to make for all. This has got to be one of my favourite recipes and is the best go to when I need to whip up something quick. You want to use bacon with a high-fat content, so avoid turkey bacon or the trimmed 'bacon eyes'. The standard back bacon that you can buy at the grocery store is great for this.

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