Simple Pastas: Spaghetti with Garlic and Oil

what is the first dish spaghetti garlic and oil is a simple straightforward it's delicious and really packs a lot of flavor so some boiling water throw the spaghetti right in just like that by the time the pasta is cooked you have your sauce ready just give it a whirl now when you throw spaghetti in there you saw me just dump it in let it sort of set in don't push it in because you break it s Italian like our spaghetti is long it is made that way for a reason because we like it we like to twirl it when we do so in the Italian style leave it like that good olive oil you know there's very few ingredients here this garlic oil and parsley I'm going to throw in a little basil and that's the recipe plenty of garlic just be careful you don't burn the garlic or the oil you don't want it too hot because you lose flavor you change the flavors of the oil when you raise it to high temperature a little bit federal Chino right now we'll give that a toast and the secret ingredient to this is not really a secret at all it's the pasta waters but you have to be careful because when you throw the pasta water in it sort of zoom it flares up just shut your fire off while you do this and then turn it back on yeah as simple as that so that cooking together will give us the sauce for the pasta itself going to chop up some parsley some nice fresh parsley here and it doesn't have to be super fine no nice little kind of flakes of parsley right in there okay never never never never put oil in the pasta cooking water I mean I've told you once I'm going to tell you a thousand times you only put oil if you're cooking white pasta like lasagna but you don't want to stick together but otherwise simple water salt it to your liking you know that too much and and then don't risk the pasta either you know I love fishing my pasta right at it like this and actually I'm going to just fish it it's nice al dente and it's going to finish cooking right in the sauce there so it's really going to take in all of the flavors so don't rinse your pasta and always always always reserved a little bit of pasta water that's your Savior that's your Savior when you are stuck you know it so I had I need to reheat a little bit this pasta it I don't have enough sauce and go back to the pasta water and what it does is there's no alien flavor there's nothing else okay so let's cook this a little bit together let me throw in lots of parsley like I said mm-hmm I sliced my garlic I like to see my slices of garlic you could chop it if you like really chop fine you could also use whole cloves crush them and if you don't feel like eating your garlic then you can put them on the side all right so this is tradition right here I'm just going to go one extra step with basil everybody loves basil you know basil is best when you cut it and chop at the last minute it oxidizes but also you're getting all of the aromas the maximum aromas you're not losing at all mmm hiepro for me the perfumes they're fantastic too and simple so this pasta is nice and al dente' for me al dente' what does it mean you know to the truth that there's a little bit of a resistance when you bite into it so closed off the fire I'm putting some cheese pecorino cheese this is great with this but cheese is a finished product you know it's almost like a cooked product you just want to add in the last minute and this way you also get the maximum of flavor of the cheese just like that you put it on top we are ready to eat and mmm so pick it up and as you can see it's just enough the pasta is flowing it's not over soupy it's not overdressed I'm going to put a little bit for myself here and then collect all of this and put it right antastic Oh a little bit more fun Roger so now I have to taste it of course take a few strands they go to the to the end of the dish twirl it like that and pick it up and reel it in whatever it's hanging you just reel it in that's the way to eat pasta

Channel: Lidia Bastianich

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Keywords: pasta, spaghetti, garlic, oil, pasta recipe, simple recipe, italian cooking, italian recipes, lidia bastianich, aglio, olio, easy pasta, simple pasta, italian pasta, spaghetti recipe, olive oil, pasta sauce

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Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 11 2016