Spaghetti Aglio Olio (spaghetti with garlic and olive oil)

To start with, a huge apology to all my followers…for being as callous as it can get :(. I haven’t posted a single recipe across the whole of last one month. No excuse but frankly, it’s been a tiring jugglery between work, home and daily chaos over the last few days.

Sadly, it’s been some time since I cooked an interesting dish (I did try one last week but I can only curse myself for having forgotten to take pictures). To add some solace, here’s a recipe post of a slurrppy dish which I made some weeks ago and fortunately, managed to retain relevant images.

The inspiration is a recipe that I came across while flipping through channels one afternoon. 

It’s an Italian traditional pasta dish (I’m sure you got that!) and is called "Spaghetti Aglio Olio" which literally means spaghetti with garlic and olive oil and pronounced as “Spaghetti Ahl-yo Ohl-yo” (sounds interesting but complicated? It’s the simplest pasta I’ve come across so far!!) 

I love Italian food and this dish comes to my rescue when I haven’t done my grocery shopping (or if you are lazy to cook too!) Let’s gather stuff for the recipe…off to your store…

Preparation Time: 5minutes
Cooking Time: 15minutes
Serves: 4

You need: 350 grams of spaghetti 
5 tablespoons of olive oil
8 garlic cloves (peeled and smashed a little with the side of the knife) 
1 tbsp red chilli flakes
parsley (chopped fine)
salt to taste


Step-by-step: 

Cook spaghetti in hot salted water, drain them and keep aside 

In a wide pan, add olive oil and brown the garlic


Throw in the chilli flakes too

Add the cooked spaghetti and salt (always remember to taste as you have already added salt while cooking spaghetti) 

Garnish with parsley

It’s done…didn’t I tell you it’s very simple…and yummy too!

Serve hot!!...

Yours tastefully!