Agilo olio pasta, a simple pasta recipe without any sauce, tossed in olive oil, chilli and garlic.
Pastamania is a popular food joint here in Singapore. They have few vegetarian options and among them we love the agilo olio pasta very much. I have posted a agilo olio pasta during my initial days of blogging which has with bread crumbs. I personally love this spicy agilo olio as it does not involve any pasta sauce. So if you are looking for pasta recipe without sauce, then this agilo olio is the best one. This is a perfect recipe for bachelors and students who stay in dorms. Do give it a try and let me know how it turned out. Generally agilo olio is made using spaghetti pasta, but i love it with penne pasta or fussili pasta.
If you are looking for quick fix recipes, then you must try this agilo olio pasta.
Ingredients
- Pasta* 1 cup
- Bird’s eye red chilli 2
- Garlic 6 cloves
- Olive oil 2 tblsp
- Salt as needed
- Dried parsley 1 tsp
- * I used penne pasta. You can use spaghetti too.
Description
Agilo olio pasta, a simple pasta recipe without any sauce, tossed in olive oil, chilli and garlic.
Method :
- Soak 1 cup of pasta in normal water for 10 minutes. This will make the pasta to get cooking faster.
- Finely chop 2 bird’s eye chilli and 6 cloves of garlic .
- Cook the pasta by adding little salt and few drops of oil.
- Once done, drain the water. Reserve 2 tbsp of the water for later use.
- In a pan add 2 tbsp of olive oil.
- Add the chopped red chili and garlic.
- Saute for few minutes, do not change the colour.
- Add the cooked pasta.
- Add little salt.
- Toss well.
- Add the reserved pasta water.
- Mix well.
- Now add 1 tsp of dried parsley, you can add some mixed herbs too.
- Mix well.
- Cook for a minute.
- Switch off the flame.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
1. The galic, olive oil and chilli brings out a best flavour to the agilo olio pasta. So do not lessen the quantity.
2. This vegetarian version of agilo olio pasta is a bachelor recipe
Do check out my other easy pasta recipes
Method with step by step pictures :
- Soak 1 cup of pasta in normal water for 10 minutes. This will make the pasta to get cooking faster.
- Finely chop 2 bird’s eye chilli and 6 cloves of garlic .
- Cook the pasta by adding little salt and few drops of oil.
- Once done, drain the water. Reserve 2 tblsp of the water for later use.
- In a pan add 2 tblsp of olive oil.
- Add the chopped red chili and garlic.
- Saute for few minutes, do not change the colour.
- Add the cooked pasta.
- Add little salt.
- Toss well.
- Add the reserved pasta water.
- Mix well.
- Now add 1 tsp of dried parsely, you can add some mixed herbs too.
Mix well.
- Cook for a minute.
- Switch off the flame.
- Serve immediately.
