Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Spaghetti with Garlic,Olive Oil &Red Chilly

Spaghetti all'aglio,olio e peperoncino is a classic pasta dish.It is actually a rustic pasta dish and was originated in the poverty stricken regions of Abruzzo in Italy.It started as a simple way of dressing cooked pasta in olive oil and garlic and peperoncino (chilli peppers (dried /fresh/crumbled) were added later and the pasta with these three ingredients became classic. The recipe which I adapted from here and also used the video here takes just minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:
Spaghetti: 2-3 handfuls (almost 1/2 a box)

Olive Oil: 1/4 cup +
Garlic: 2-3 big cloves
Red Chillies (chilli flakes can also be used) : 3+ as per taste

Pepper

Garnish (optional)
CorianderLeaves/Cilantro
Parmesan /Grana Padano Cheese
Black olives

Preparation:
Cook spaghetti till al dente.

Meanwhile ,heat olive oil in a pan and add peeled and optionally chopped garlic into it.Add chilli flakes or chopped/crumbled red chillies and let it cook (fry) till it starts to brown.Your Aglio e olio (garlic and oil) sauce with peperoncino is ready. Optionally you can add chopped tomatoes into the oil or anchovies for the non veg version.Or if you go for Milanese style of this pasta then bread crumbs are also added to the sauce along with garlic and red chillies.I just went with the plain old recipe and used garlic and redchillies only.

Mix the sauce with the drained spaghetti,add pepper and optionally cheese,black olives and finely chopped cilantro.Serve in bowls.I mixed cilantro with the pasta and the rest was as per taste. Two people can have a hearty meal with this much quantity of pasta.



Peperoncino translates into paprika or cayenne pepper but traditionally the red chillies cultivated and then sun dried (or plainly speaking dried red chillies) in Abruzzo are used and this dish is a signature dish of Abruzzo that differentiates it from the other food bowls in Italy.There these chillies are also known as diavolino (little devil -may because of the heat they give).

Red chillies are usually part of Indian cuisine or day to day use for me.But I wanted to see whether they were as important in anyother cuisine and the first one I searched was in Italian cuisine as I knew chili flakes is a staple ingredient there.This pasta dish which was quite easy came as a surprise.

Interestingly the pasta has full blown olive oil taste with the cruncy red chillies adding a zing to it.It was nice to bite into the fried bits of garlic and red chillies.Make sure you add 1 or 2 more chillies than required as frying in olive oil reduce the heat.

The spicy spaghetti is on way to fire up the Think Spice :Red Chillies an event by Sunita and currently hosted by Lakshmi.

27 Comments:

Parita said...

Simple and yumm!

Finla said...

Tjis is one of my favourite pasta. It is light easy and really yumm.
Wish i had that plate now.

ashsdelicacies.blogspot.ca said...

A nice simple recipe...n i am sure it will taste the best.

Cham said...

Simple but delicious dish!

Pari Vasisht said...

Simple and quick to make Pasta.

Mansi said...

That's loads of useful info. Pasta looks superb.

Shaista Tabrez said...

pasta looks superb...my fav one

Priya Suresh said...

Simple, delicious pasta CL..

ST said...

The dish looks very exotic..

Uma said...

mmm. looks absolutely delicious :)

Shama Nagarajan said...

lovely recipe dear

Shama Nagarajan said...

lovely recipe dear

Sanghi said...

yummy spaghetti..!

Suparna said...

simple and satisfying dish dear :) nice click. loved the clicks!
TC

Suparna said...

simple and satisfying dish dear :) nice click. loved the clicks!
TC

Priya Narasimhan said...

looks so simple..i am sure it would taste great..

Sunanda said...

This is really simple and tempting dish....

Sharmila said...

Just the kind of recipe I love ... simple and flavourful! :-)

Varsha Vipins said...

Thats a real rustic simple dish
Shweta..love these ones..Ill try this..:)

Unknown said...

oohhh yummy yum nice click sweatha.

Thistlemoon said...

This is certainly one of those classic Southern Italian dishes! It looks great!

Anonymous said...

very yummy! this is a great fusion of cuisines!

Raaga said...

simple and tasty!

DK said...

Guess have missed a lot of your posts recently..

Your Apam Balik is intriguing to say the least - will give that one a try :)

DK
http://chefinyou.com

lubnakarim06 said...

Wow....looks glossy and yum....

Palidor said...

That looks wonderful! Simple yet so delicious.

Aparna Balasubramanian said...

My favourite kind of pasta, without sauce! :)
Try making this with ghee (browned butter). Its awesome.

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