Name: Spaghettini: Garlic and Oil (Spaghettini Aglio e Olio)
Yield: Serves 4 as a starter or 2 as a main
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped; 200 g spaghettini; ½ teaspoon crushed dried chilli; 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Geometry of Pasta

By Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy

Published 2010

About

This pasta dish is pungent and well-loved. Lots of garlic, chilli and oil make for powerful flavours, but delicious ones…

Ingredients

200 g spaghettini
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
6 tablespoon

Main course
Starter
Vegan
Spicy

Method

Put the garlic and oil in a cold pan, and cook over a medium heat until the garlic has sizzled for a minute, but not coloured. It is best to start this just a minute or two before your pasta is cooked. Add the chilli to the pan, then the drained pasta along with about 4 tablespoons of the cooking water. Sauté together for a few seconds, toss in the parsley and serve.

You can halve the c