This is a spaghetti with garlic (Aglio), olive oil ( olio ) and chili flakes recipe. It’s an authentic Italian dish. It’s absolutely my all time favourite comfort food!
To cook spaghetti, first fill a large pot with water. Add a generous amount of salt into the water.
Bring the water to a boil.
Add the spaghetti. Cook according to package instructions till al dente, about 10 minutes.
Drain when " al dente". Put the cooked spaghetti into a casserole.
At the meantime work on the sauce. Prepare the ingredients needed to make the sauce.
In a pan add the olive oil (room temperature).
Immediately add the sliced garlic. Make sure the oil and fresh garlic are added TOGETHER. This will ensure the garlic flavour to be infused into the oil.
Turn on the heat to LOW. Cook the oil and garlic together.
Cook for about 5 to 10 minutes or until the garlic is lightly brown.
Then add the hot pepper flakes, according to taste.
Cook for another 3 minutes. Remove the oil mixture from the heat.
Pour the garlic infused olive oil mixture into the hot and drained spaghetti.
Add also some chopped parsley and freshly ground black pepper.
Toss everything together so that the garlic infused oil coats every strand of the spaghetti
And you're done! Place the spaghetti on a serving plate and serve warm. It's flavourful and absolutely delicious. As always, ENJOY!
Add a generous amount of salt into water to cook the spaghetti as no salt or other flavouring will be added. Salted water flavours the pasta.To keep pasta from sticking, stir during the first minute or two of cookingDo not over cook the garlic in the olive oil. Otherwise the garlic will be bitter.