SPICY VODKA PASTA
Pasta is our go to these days, once a week we’re having something fast and delish like this SPICY VODKA PASTA.
Anything that’s a one pot or pan, a quick noodle and a nice easy recipe, we’re up for making. We love how simple this recipe is and how easy it was to throw together!
These pasta recipes are also our on go to list every few weeks:
We first saw this recipe as Gigi Hadid’s SPICY VODKA PASTA but of course we made some slight changes and improvements.
Can you say more garlic?!
Who doesn’t llooooove garlic?!
Actually a lot of people are not huge fans, if you’re one of these people just reduce the amount of garlic cloves in half.
This recipe is super similar to an older Ambs Loves Food recipe post- PASTA ALLA VODKA. This one today has less vodka and MORE red pepper flakes, hence the name spicy.
And this version is a little more simple in flavor using plain tomato sauce instead of marinara. Honestly, you could use either to your preference!
The name of the recipe says spicy and trust us, it is spicy. If you’re not feeling the spicy-ness use only half the red pepper flakes instead (1 teaspoon) or even less if you really don’t like it spicy!
We only used one teaspoon in our dish.
We absolutely love using shell pasta for a saucy creamy dreamy recipe like this. When the sauce is on the thinner side, it sticks to the pasta shells and is stored on the inside, making each bite super saucy instead of being left behind.
Even bigger shells = even more sauce.
But we just thought these little baby shells were oh so cute.
SPICY VODKA PASTA
Ingredients
- 1/4 CUP OLIVE OIL GOOD QUALITY
- 1/2 SMALL SWEET YELLOW ONION OR SHALLOT FINELY DICED
- 4 LARGE GARLIC CLOVES MINCED
- 2 TABLESPOONS UNSALTED BUTTER
- 16 OZ SHELL PASTA
- 1 CUP HEAVY WHIPPING CREAM
- 6 TABLESPOONS VODKA
- 8 OUNCES TOMATO SAUCE
- 1-2 TEASPOONS RED PEPPER FLAKES
- 1 CUP PARMESAN + MORE TO SERVE
- S&P TO TASTE
- FRESH BASIL TO SERVE
- PARSLEY TO SERVE
Instructions
- HEAT OIL OVER MEDIUM HEAT IN A LARGE PAN. ADD IN ONION AND COOK UNTIL TRANSLUCENT & SOFT. TOSS IN GARLIC AND CONTINUE TO COOK FOR 30 SECONDS.
- ADD IN TOMATO SAUCE AND COOK OVER MEIDUM LOW HEAT UNTIL BUBBLING.
- POUR IN WHIPPING CREAM AND VODKA. STIR UNTIL BUBBLING OVER LOW HEAT. TOSS IN RED PEPPER FLAKES, CONTINUE MIXING SLOWLY UNTIL ALL IS COMBINED.
- WHILE COOKING SAUCE, COOK PASTA TO AL DENTE (USE SALT TO COOK).
- ONCE PASTA IS COOKED, ADD TO THE SAUCE AND RESERVE 1 CUP OF COOKED SALTED PASTA WATER. ADD IN BUTTER AND PARMESAN AND GENTLY TOSS TOGETHER.
- IF IT IS NOT SAUCY ENOUGH, ADD IN 1/2-1 CUP PASTA WATER.
- TASTE AND SEASON WITH S&P. GARNISH WITH BASIL, PARSLEY AND MORE PARMESAN.
Notes
This is the perfect Summer pasta, light & easy on a warm night!
Much shell love,
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