Arrabiata Pasta Recipe

by Sujata Kotian Das - February 13, 2019

Red sauce Pasta/ Arrabiata Pasta

This is one of easy pasta to make. The aromatic sauce made from basil leaves/ holy tulsi , it’s a guarantee way to delight your taste buds. Red pasta is quite simple to make if you follow all the tips and tricks mentioned in the recipe below. Try to use wheat pasta if possible, I have used macroni you can also use Penne, rigatoni, farfalle etc.It can be served as a snack or light dinner. This recipe explains the entire method with step by step photos to make cooking even simpler for beginners as well as expert cooks.

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Preparation time: 10 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Serves: 3-4 Pax

Ingredients:

For red sauce

600 gms Tomatoes

1 tbsp Olive Oil/ refined oil

7-8 cloves Garlic finely chopped

1 medium sized spring onion(finely chopped)

1 tbsp red chilli flakes

2 tsp mixed herbs/oregano

1/2 tsp sugar

5-6 basil leaves/holy tulsi

1/2 tsp crushed pepper

For pasta

1 cup wheat Macroni Pasta/ Penne Pasta

1 tsp vinegar

2 tsp salt

Method

Make a criss cross cut on the back side of the tomatoes
Blanch tomatoes by adding it into boiling water for just 10 secs
Drain it on cold water and peel off the skin
Now finely chop the tomatoes and keep them aside
In pan heat 1 tbsp oil sauté chopped garlic , keep the flame medium
Now add chilli flakes and white onion, sauté for about a minute or until onion turns translucent
Next add finely chopped tomatoes, salt as per taste, sugar, mixed herbs, crushed pepper and basil leaves
Cook them until tomatoes turn mushy
While the sauce is getting ready let’s cook the pasta. Boil around 1 ltr water add vinegar and salt
When water start boiling add wheat pasta and cook them until al-dente (cooked but not very soft). For me it took 6 mins. To check whether pasta is cooked or not, take one pasta and bite it, if it is little firm to bite it is cooked. If it is too hard to bite, it requires more cooking or you can also cut the pasta into two half’s and check
Meanwhile the sauce was getting ready by the side: it took around 8 mins for the sauce to cook
If you find the consistency too thick add some starch water from the boiled pasta.
Finally strain and transfer cooked pasta to sauce pan
Mix well and turn off the flame.
Transfer it to serving plate garnish some Parmesan cheese and serve hot

Notes/ Tips

An important factor to achieve great tomato flavour is by balancing acidity. Sugar helps in balancing acidic nature of tomato
We have added vinegar while boiling pasta reason being the acid in the vinegar and the residual heat from the cooking pasta make the noodles more absorbent so they'll really soak up the flavor from your dressing or sauce
Do not add oil to your pasta cooking water. Oil is said to prevent the pot from boiling over and it may create a barrier while mixing the pasta with the sauce. The general consensus is that it does more harm than good. The best way to avoid sticking pasta from each other is to drain the cooked pasta directly from the pot to the sauce pan.
Many people rinse their pasta after cooking it. The only thing this does is remove the starch that helps hold and absorb the sauce. Also the flavor of the pasta is washed away. When the pasta is al dente, drain it and directly transfer it to the sauce pan.
Red sauce pasta Recipe Step-by-Step with Pictures:
- Make a criss cross cut on the back side of the tomatoes
- Blanch tomatoes by adding it into boiling water for just 10 secs
- Drain it on cold water and peel off the skin
- Now finely chop the tomatoes and keep them aside
- In pan heat 1 tbsp oil sauté chopped garlic , keep the flame medium
- Now add chilli flakes and white onion, sauté for about a minute or until onion turns translucent
- Next add finely chopped tomatoes, salt as per taste, sugar, mixed herbs, crushed pepper and basil leaves
- Cook them until tomatoes turn mushy
- While the sauce is getting ready let’s cook the pasta. Boil around 1 ltr water add vinegar and salt
- When water start boiling add wheat pasta and cook them until al-dente (cooked but not very soft). For me it took 6 mins. To check whether pasta is cooked or not, take one pasta and bite it, if it is little firm to bite it is cooked. If it is too hard to bite, it requires more cooking or you can also cut the pasta into two half’s and check
- Meanwhile the sauce was getting ready by the side: it took around 8 mins for the sauce to cook
- If you find the consistency too thick add some starch water from the boiled pasta.
- Finally strain and transfer cooked pasta to sauce pan
- Mix well and turn off the flame.
- Transfer it to serving plate garnish some Parmesan cheese and serve hot
Garnish with Parmesan cheese and as a side dish can have it with garlic bread

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