Red Sauce Pasta

If you want to enjoy Indian style spicy red sauce pasta at home, you have reached your destination. This easy step by step red sauce pasta recipe will help you make an authentic cafe-style dish. You just need simple kitchen ingredients and 30 minutes of your time to make the perfect red sauce pasta! The best part is that you can use veggies of your choice, tweak the sauces and make your pasta as cheesy as you like. This pasta is traditionally called 'Arrabbiata pasta' and is referred as red sauce pasta because of the red colour of the Arrabbiata sauce, which is prepared using dried chilli peppers, tomatoes, garlic and olive oil. It is very important that you make the red sauce in a traditional way, else the real taste of this pasta will not come through. For the same, try to use the Italian tomatoes which are commonly known as roma tomatoes. This is an aromatic pasta recipe for which you need: Penne pasta, roma tomatoes for puree or tomato puree, basil, parsley, garlic and chilli flakes. All the ingredients are cooked in olive oil, which makes it a healthy choice.

prep time

30 min.

cook time

15 min.

serving

6 servings

instructions

Step 1 Prepare the red sauce and boil the pasta

Heat oil in a pan over medium flame and add minced garlic along with chopped red chilli and red chilli flakes. Stir and saute for 2 minutes. Take another pan, pour the water and bring it to a boil. Then, add pasta to the boiling water along with some salt and 1/2 tbsp oil. Cook the pasta for a few minutes. When it is cooked through, drain the extra water and transfer the pasta to another bowl.

Step 2 Cook tomatoes along with herbs for 10-12 minutes

Now, heat the olive oil and add the peeled (or pureed) tomatoes, basil and parsley to the pan. Mix all the ingredients well and let it simmer for 10 minutes until the sauce starts to thicken. When the sauce starts gaining consistency, put off the burner and add salt and black pepper powder to the sauce. Keep the sauce warm. Add the pasta over the warm sauce and toss carefully so that each piece is coated with the sauce.

Step 3 Pasta is ready to relish

Cook for 2-3 minutes more and then serve the Red Sauce Pasta immediately. To make it more aromatic, you can dry roast a few basil leaves, crush them with some chilli flakes, oregano and add it to the dish. This herb fusion will make your pasta even more delectable. Serve it with garlic bread and relish this delicious pasta.

ingredients

225 gm pasta penne ,4 cloves garlic ,2 teaspoon basil ,salt as required ,2 pinches powdered black pepper ,2 red chilli ,450 gm roma tomato ,1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes ,1 tablespoon parsley ,1 1/2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil ,3 cup water