Penne al'arrabiata (pasta with a spicy tomato sauce)
Penne al'arrabiata (pasta with a spicy tomato sauce)

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A spicy pasta al'arrabiata - or spicy tomato sauce to you and me - an easy storecupboard pasta dish for a weeknight supper. Meanwhile, cook the pasta for a few minutes in large saucepan of boiling, salted water with. While the sauce is cooking, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook penne al'arrabiata (pasta with a spicy tomato sauce) using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Penne al'arrabiata (pasta with a spicy tomato sauce):
  1. Take For the Arrabiata sauce:
  2. Make ready 1 1/2 tablespoons soft unsalted butter (optional)
  3. Prepare 2 tablespoons Extra virgin olive oil
  4. Take 2 medium onions, 1 grated, 1 finely diced
  5. Make ready Pinch dry Thyme
  6. Get Pinch dry Basil
  7. Take 1/2-1 teaspoon dry chilli flakes (add as much or as little depending on preference)
  8. Make ready 1 clove garlic, sliced into thin pieces or finely minced (depending on preference)
  9. Prepare 5 cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
  10. Get 1 can tin chopped tomato
  11. Prepare 1 cup water
  12. Make ready To taste salt and black pepper
  13. Get 1 teaspoon granulated sugar (or any white sugar)
  14. Get 1 tablespoon Tabasco sauce (add more or less depending on preference)
  15. Take 4 tablespoons pasta water (add more or less depending on preference)
  16. Take Drizzle of olive oil
  17. Make ready For cooking the pasta:
  18. Take 220 g Penne Pasta
  19. Prepare 6-7 cups water (cooking the pasta)
  20. Prepare 1-2 teaspoons sea salt (water should be as salty as the sea)
  21. Take For garnish:
  22. Prepare Parmesan cheese, finely grated
  23. Prepare 2 fresh basil leaves (optional)

The secret of Arrabbiata is the balance between the freshness taste of tomatoes and parsley, and the extreme spiciness of Chili peppers. Even if traditional shape of pasta is Penne, this sauce pairs. The heat level of this spicy tomato sauce can be adjusted to your taste. Reviews for: Photos of Penne in Spicy Tomato Sauce (Penne all'arrabbiata).

Steps to make Penne al'arrabiata (pasta with a spicy tomato sauce):
  1. In a pot on medium high heat, bring water to a boil. Once the water has boiled, add the salt and pasta. Cook the pasta for approximately 14 minutes (or until cooked).
  2. In the meantime while the pasta cooks, grate one onion and dice the other one. Thinly slice the garlic.
  3. On medium heat in a large pan or wok, add the butter and let it melt (if using, optional otherwise miss butter step out and jump to *olive oil). When butter has almost dissolved, add the extra virgin olive oil. If not using butter add *more extra virgin oil. Stir to incorporate the butter and olive oil together for about 30 seconds.
  4. Add the grated onions to the pan and stir. Add a pinch of thyme and basil to the pan and mix together to release flavours of herbs. Now add chilli flakes and stir together well.
  5. Add the diced onions and sauté until soft and translucent. Now add the garlic and stir. If using cherry tomatoes, add it now. Cook until tomatoes are soft and bursting in the pan.
  6. Now add the tinned tomatoes, water and season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir thoroughly until well incorporated. Add sugar and Tabasco and mix well. Let the sauce continue to simmer on high heat.
  7. Once the sauce has thickened and reduced turn heat down to very low for another 5 minutes. Taste the sauce and adjust if needed (add more salt, pepper, sugar depending on preference). Now go back to the pasta. Taste and see pasta is to desired texture. It should be served al dente, or chewy.
  8. With a slotted spoon incorporate the penne into the sauce, add a ladle of the pasta liquid (to help loosen the pasta), drizzle with olive oil and season with black pepper (optional). Thoroughly mix and coat all of pasta and sauce together.
  9. Transfer the pasta onto a serving bowl and grate parmesan cheese over the top. Add 2 basil leaves (if adding, optional) on top as garnish. Serve and eat immediately while hot.

Exceedingly simple in concept and execution, arrabbiata sauce is tomato sauce with the distinction of being spicy enough to earn its "angry" moniker. Penne Arrabbiata: The Pasta That Bites You Back. All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. Its uncomplicated nature lends itself to an after-midnight feast. It's basically pasta with tomato sauce and cheese, but red pepper flakes give the sauce a delicious kick.

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