1. Start boiling your water and add pasta when ready.
2. Heat pan slightly lower than medium with oil and thinly sliced, slightly chopped garlic.
3. After the garlic starts to get a little cooked, add in basil, with stems and all. Add chili flakes a little later (don’t want them to get burned). Make everything become aromatic.
4. Remove pan from heat for a few seconds and add in passata. I remove it so that the tomato doesn’t start splashing everywhere because of the heat.
5. Heat the pan again. Make the sauce bubble and thicken until it’s pretty dang thick. I remove the basil before adding the passata but you can keep it if you want.
6. Add a good spoonful of the sauce to another pan and mix it up with some cooking water. Heat that pan up on high
7. Remove pasta from water when there are 2 minutes left before al dente and transfer to the sauce & water pan. Finish cooking your pasta in it so that it soaks up all of that beautiful saucy goodness.
8. Empty that pan into the full-on sauce pan. Combine and serve.
AfterBill8630
Simple and delicious. I make this all the time when I am feeling pasta. The older I get the more excited I am about simpler food like this and aglio e oglio lol
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As prompted by the mod — single portion recipe
• 3/4 cup highest quality passata possible
• Olive oil
• Garlic
• Basil
• 85g pasta of choice
• Cheese of your liking (optional)
• Chili flakes (optional)
1. Start boiling your water and add pasta when ready.
2. Heat pan slightly lower than medium with oil and thinly sliced, slightly chopped garlic.
3. After the garlic starts to get a little cooked, add in basil, with stems and all. Add chili flakes a little later (don’t want them to get burned). Make everything become aromatic.
4. Remove pan from heat for a few seconds and add in passata. I remove it so that the tomato doesn’t start splashing everywhere because of the heat.
5. Heat the pan again. Make the sauce bubble and thicken until it’s pretty dang thick. I remove the basil before adding the passata but you can keep it if you want.
6. Add a good spoonful of the sauce to another pan and mix it up with some cooking water. Heat that pan up on high
7. Remove pasta from water when there are 2 minutes left before al dente and transfer to the sauce & water pan. Finish cooking your pasta in it so that it soaks up all of that beautiful saucy goodness.
8. Empty that pan into the full-on sauce pan. Combine and serve.
Simple and delicious. I make this all the time when I am feeling pasta. The older I get the more excited I am about simpler food like this and aglio e oglio lol
Aglio e olio is so clutch
Pharaons would be proud of your pyramid! 🤩