What's up, everyone. Looking for a dish to throw together when it's rent week and you're extra strapped for cash? Look no more. Here's my recipe for a simple Aglio e Olio ("garlic and oil.") All you need is some pasta, garlic, chili flakes, salt and olive oil. The cool thing about this recipe isn't actually the recipe at all, it's the technique. This pasta making technique can be deployed in a variety of different ways to make a variety of different dishes. Take cacio e pepe ("cheese and pepper,") for example - simply replace the olive oil and garlic with butter and pepper and BAM, you got a new dish. Anyways, I hope this video is helpful. The link to watch is listed below.
To put this technique in a more linear model: Boil water > Cook pasta > Stir + Toss > Add pasta cooking liquid > Simmer + Shake > Garnish + Serve.
Ingredients:
- Olive oil, to cover pan
- Garlic, 6 cloves sliced
- Chili flakes, 1 tsp
- 1 package of bucatini (or spaghetti)
- Kosher salt, to taste
Method:
- Salt pasta water until it tastes like the sea. Cook pasta until almost al dente. 4-6 minutes.
- Once your pasta is almost finished, reserve 2 cups of pasta water.
- In a deep-walled skillet, gently heat garlic and chili flakes until fragrant and slightly browned.
- Pour in 1/4 cup of the reserved pasta water in the garlic olive oil.
- Use tongues to add pasta directly from the pot it cooked in to the garlic olive oil. Swirl and simmer, adding more pasta water by 1/4 cup making sure to leave about half an inch of garlic olive oil on the bottom of the pan.
- Simmer until al dente. Turn off the heat. Garnish with cheese, lemon zest, butter, pepper and salt if it needs it.
*** Check out the recipe video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76wQ5yN0dI
Peace and happy cooking!
Adam
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