Best Ever Spaghetti Aglio Olio Recipe - In Maxima Wok Pan
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Aglio e olio is a deliciously simple Italian dish of fresh garlic, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese tossed with freshly cooked spaghetti This is a simple pasta dish nonetheless packed with flavors . Spaghetti Aglio e Olio is popular throughout Italy, but originated in Naples. Lets get started with this super easy to make recipe.
PREP TIME 11 mins
TOTAL TIME 16 mins
CUISINE : Italian,
Mediterranean
INGREDIENTS
- 4 cloves of
fresh garlic
- 1 tea spoon
chilli flakes
- ¾ cup olive
oil
- 1 handful
flat leaf Italian parsley or fresh coriender finely chopped can also
be used if you don’t find parsley - salt to
taste
- spaghetti
INSTRUCTIONS
- Bring a pot of water to a boil. Do not add
salt to the water. We will be adding ladles of this hot water to a skillet to finish cooking
the spaghetti. If you add salty water to cook the pasta, the water will
evaporate in the skillet leaving too much salt in our dish.When the water is boiling, cook the pasta for just 2 minutes. In the
meantim.
Prepare the
Ingredients
- Thinly slice
the cloves of fresh garlic. keep half a teaspoon of red chilli
flakes aside . Mince a handful of parsley and set it aside. Save the
parsley stems for flavoring the oil!.
Prepare the base
oil
- Cover the
bottom of a large skillet with the olive oil. Over medium heat, add: the
garlic, chili pepper and some parsley stems.
Cook for about 2 minutes or until the garlic has turned golden. When the pasta has cooked for 2 minutes.
Finish Cooking
the Pasta in the maxima wok Pan
- Transfer the
spaghetti immediately to the infused olive oil along with 2 ladles of hot
pasta water. Save the hot pasta water—we will continue adding it to the
skillet to cook the pasta!
- Cook the
pasta like a risotto over medium heat. Set your timer for the rest of the cooking time required on the pasta package instruction Total cooking time for the average spaghetti brand is about 11 minutes. In
this case, you’d set your timer for 9 minutes since we already cooked the
pasta for 2 minutes.
- When the
first ladles of pasta water have been mostly absorbed, add a few ladles
more. Continue adding water a few ladles at a time until the pasta is cooked
.
- When the pasta is cooked, salt to taste and add some minced parsley for freshness and color. And parsley adds a good flavour to the Aglio Olio.
· Do NOT add salt before in the pasta water.
- Unlike other pasta recipes, this recipe calls for cooking the pasta mostly in the pan with ladles of hot pasta water. We cook the pasta in this way to help us concentrate the starch coming from the pasta in order to create the creamy sauce.
- Do not over cook your spaghetti .
- If you salt the pasta water, you will likely have too much concentrated salt left in your skillet when the water evaporates.
- Add salt at the end (if needed)! If you don’t have fresh parsley leaves you can also use fresh coreinder leaves .



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