Arrabiata Pasta Recipe: Here’s How To Prepare It At Home

Cooking Pasta

• Boil 2 cups of penne pasta in 4 cups of water on medium flame. Add 2-3 drops of any cooking oil into the pasta to ensure pasta doesn't stick together.
• In case, you don't have penne pasta, you can go for macroni or fusili pasta as well.
• On a medium-high flame, cook until the pasta is becomes soft..
• Strain the pasta and keep it aside.

Making Sauce

• In case, you don't have tomato puee, transfer the roughly chopped tomatoes into a blender. Blend until you get smooth puree.
• While you are making the puree, make sure you do not add water.
• Take a pan and heat some olive oil into it. Add finely chopped garlic into the heated oil.
• Sauté for 20-30 seconds.
• Next, add red chili powder or crushed chili flakes. Combine well with the oil and garlic. You can add more chili powder or fakes, if you want spicy taste.
• After this, add the tomato puree and salt as per the taste. Combine well.
• Cover and cook the tomato puree on medium flame for 1-2 minutes.
• Add water and let the sauce simmer for 5 minutes. This will ensure that the sauce gets cooked well and the raw aroma goes away.
• As soon as the sauce mixture starts leaving oil from the sides, this means that the arrabiata sauce is cooked well.
• At this point, add dried oregano, sugar and ground black pepper.

Making Arrabiata Pasta

• Once the sauce is cooked, add the boiled pasta and mix well.
• Mix well to ensure that the sauce coats pasta uniformly.
• Turn off the flame and add basil leaves. You can also chop the leaves before adding them to the pasta. Mix gently

Serving Suggestions

• Add parmesan cheese into the pasta.
• Serve in bowl by sprinkling some more cheese and a few basil sprigs.
• You can also serve with garlic bread.

Notes:

• You can use any pasta of your choice. People generally make arrabiata pasta with penne. But you can also use macroni or fusili.
• It is advisable to use tomato puree while making arrabiata pasta. This ensures that the arrabiata sauce gets prepared nicely.
• You can also add chopped green chilies into the arrabiata sauce. You can also replace pepper powder with crushed pepper corns.
• You can also make the pasta cheesy by adding cheese, milk and cornflour.