Alvaro's Favorite Pasta = Espaguetis al Ajillo

Feb 28, 2007 at 5:42 PM
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One of the 2 ways that my dear husband likes to have spaghetti. He has a thing against tomatoes. Go figure--in Spain. Particularly the Canary Islands. Where tomatoes are one of the principal export crops. And the fun things you can *do* with tomatoes....like the Tomatina festival in Valencia.... :P hehe Anyway...I digress. The topic was GARLIC spaghetti. Yes, those caps are on purpose. Lots of garlic and a bit of spicy cayenne...simple but flavorful.

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Ingredients:

1 pound spaghetti

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

7-8 cloves garlic (or more), thinly sliced

4-5 dried cayennes (the tiny ones)

chopped parsley to taste

salt to taste

Preparation:

Prepare pasta according to package directions.

Meanwhile, sautee the garlic and cayenne over medium heat until garlic is *just* golden.

Add parsley near the end of cooking and season with salt.

Drain pasta.

Pour garlic and cayenne infused oil over pasta and stir to coat.

Allow to sit for about 30 minutes, until flavor melds with pasta.

This is one of those dishes that is even better the next day....feel free to play with the ingredients...I like to add some shrimp, zucchini and parmesan to mine. :)

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That sounds good, sounds like it would have a world of possibilities for different versions too.

Although the thin sliced garlic makes me think of Goodfellas :)

Thanks, Brian! :) Why Goodfellas? I've seen the movie a time or 2, but can't for the life of me remember the garlic reference. lol

There's a scene when they're in prison but they have a kitchen with very few tools. One of the guys is slicing garlic very thinly with a razor blade.

I made this last night. I didn't have any cayenne peppers so I used some arbols. They didn't impart much flavor sadly. It was still a good dish, I put some broiled pork chop in with it and added a little dried red pepper to put some of the missing spice back in.

Oh, ok! I am a movie junkie, and for some reason that just did not spring to mind....could be that I'm a chick flick junkie though....even though I love gangstah stuff too. :)

Oooh, broiled pork chop sounds like a fab addition! Did you like it?

Yeah, it was really good. Gena has the leftovers for lunch today, we'll see what she thinks.

I did a little variation on this last night. I first dry toasted a couple of dried guajillos and then browned whole garlic cloves in the olive oil and then blended the olive oil, garlic and peppers together to make the sauce. It was very good that way.

If I ever locate some good dried cayennes I'll do it the right way.

Oooooh! Sounds delicious! Do you want me to send you some of the cayennes that I use? They are the tiny ones....in the US I used to get mine at the Asian grocer, they look like the red Thai chilies, but dried. If you want me to send you some, let me know! :)

Alvaro's Favorite Pasta = Espaguetis al Ajillo

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