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5 Ingredient Garlic Spaghetti

Posted on December 2, 2022

5 ingredients garlic spaghetti vegan recipe

Just 5 Ingredient Garlic Spaghetti

Only 5 ingredients needed for this easy garlic spaghetti. Vegan friendly and delicious, you just need garlic, spaghetti, tomatoes and parsley for this. A bit of seasoning and you have a great mid week meal.

What’s in the 5 Ingredient Spaghetti?

Olive oil-Using good quality olive oil makes a difference. The way it’s used in this recipe is to almost confit the garlic so you want to keep the temperature low to stop it ruining.

Garlic- Keeping the cloves whole to cook first, the aim is to get them nice and soft after around 10 minutes. After those 10 minutes it will become beautifully soft and able to mash with a spoon or fork. If you want, you can simply finely chop the garlic cloves and fry them off as normal.

Tomatoes- to get a bit of acidity in the recipe, tomatoes are a perfect pocket of flavour.

Spaghetti- you can use spaghetti or linguini for this recipe. A long pasta shape for all of that delicious flavour to cling to.

Parsley- Using fresh herbs adds so much flavour to pasta. If you don’t like parsley, use fresh basil.

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Cooking Tips

Save that pasta water- to get glossy delicious pasta make sure to save around 100-150ml of pasta water to add to the sauce. It helps give a really glossy and silky coat.

Use fresh herbs- This is essential in this recipe. Fresh herbs add such a strong flavour to recipes, so be sure to add in a good handful along with the pasta.

Confit the garlic- A really easy way to cook garlic is in a bath of olive oil. This confit garlic will make sure its deliciously soft and perfect for mashing into the pasta water and sauce.

Season, season season- It’s SO important to season along the way. Season the pasta water with salt, then the cooked spaghetti and a final pinch at the end. Lots of cracked black pepper will elevate this recipe.

5 Ingredient Garlic Spaghetti

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 12

Servings 2 people

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil
200 g spaghetti dried
3 cloves garlic
100 g tomatoes
15 g fresh parsley or basil
salt and pepper

Instructions

Start by bringing a pot of water to the boil, add in a large pinch of salt followed by the spaghetti, cook till al dente
meanwhile add the olive oil to a non stick pan, add the garlic cloves and tomatoes and bring allow to sit in the oil for around 10 minutes (you don't want the oil to be boiling, just hot) this will help make the garlic cloves beautifully soft
Once the garlic is soft, mash with a spoon until pureed, do the same to the tomatoes to release the juice
Add a ladle full (around 120ml) of the pasta water followed by the drained spaghetti, mix until glossy
Finely chop the fresh basil or parsley and mix into the pasta, followed by lashing of salt and pepper, until seasoned to perfection. Don't be scared to season the pasta well

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If you like this recipe why not try my 5 Ingredient Gochujang Pasta

5 Ingredient Vegan Creamy Pasta

Posted on November 1, 2022

5 Ingredient Vegan Creamy Pasta

Easy 5 Ingredient Creamy Vegan Pasta. Think of this as the same category as a carbonara (but definitely not authentic). It’s creamy, silky, smokey from the vegan bacon and delicious. For this recipe to taste delicious, you need to season as you go. When using 5 main ingredients you want to make sure you’ve got good flavour coming through each.

What’s needed to make this vegan creamy pasta?

Vegan Cream Cheese- To get a really easy creamy pasta sauce using a cream cheese such as Nush, will be a quick and simply hack. Don’t forget to add pasta water to get the silkiest of pasta sauces, it’s an essential step!

Garlic-To get a delicious rich flavour you want around 3 cloves for this recipe, dice them nice and finely to stop anyone chewing down on a large piece.

Vegan Bacon- This gives a really smokey flavour to this recipe. This recipe uses This brand but you can use what you have to hand. Dice it nice and fine to get little pieces through the recipe.

Salt and pepper- this is essential to the recipe to bring out the flavours. Salt the pot of water before adding the pasta, salt the sauce and taste test along the way. Lots and lots of cracked black pepper will help tie together the creamy sauce and smokey ‘bacon’.

Cooking tips:

Pasta water- The tip to get creamy silky pasta every time is adding in a bit of the pasta water. Certain sauced will require more water so be sure to take a mug full and add as much or as little as you need.

Season – A good pasta dish has salt. Don’t be scared to add salt to the water to when cooking the pasta, and don’t be scared to salt the sauce. Cracked black pepper is also essential for this recipe, a good pinch of this whilst cooking and before serving too.

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5 Ingredient Creamy Vegan Pasta

Easy 5 Ingredient Creamy Vegan Pasta. Think of this as the same category as a carbonara (but definitely not authentic). It's creamy, silky, smokey from the vegan bacon and delicious.

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 7

Servings 2 people