If you have to experience an ingredient it is to experience it in the simplest form. That’s the way I love pasta. Among the dry pasta, the kids love the long strings of spaghetti. easiest to store this dry pasta is the best in winter.
The long spaghetti story
This particular experiment starts with the winter holidays. I was teaching my kids to do simple pasta so they can get their basics towards survival.
Since they are beginners and not ready to use eye measurements to cook we needed the support of a recipe. I realized I don’t have one on my blog with spaghetti. We went through our book collection and found a few pasta recipes. A quick flip through them, we unanimously agreed we all loved the one with garlic and chilli. We zeroed in on the step by step recipes series “Quick Pasta Recipes” as it also had easy to follow beautiful images.
The story berries
Have you gone through the storyberries about Petey gutsy turning pig .. I used to love such stories to tell my kids when they were smaller. I love the past when they animated look at me with wide open mouths as I go through the story and try to be extra nice for the next meal.
Just for the next…not further. 
I hardly get to say any stories now…Just hear some stories from them, some white lies and lot of silence…
Here is a link to the collection which excited my kids when they were smaller.
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Spaghetti with garlic, basil and chilli
Ingredients
For the pasta
- 500 g spaghetti or pasta
- drinking water
- salt to taste
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 long red chillies
- 4-5 cloves garlic
- 1 handful basil leaves
Instructions
- Into a pasta pot add water and bring it to a boil.
- As the water commes to a boil, add salt and spaghetti
- Cook till al dente.
- Drain well and set aside
- Slit and deseed the chillies and chop them small. Mince the garlic cloves fine and add to the chillies. Tear the basil leaves and set aside
- In a seperate pan, heat olive oil, Add the chopped deseeded chillies and garlic.
- Remove off heat when the garlic browns and allow the flavours to infuse.
- Toss this in the cooked pasta and add torn basil leaves.
- Season to taste and serve warm.
Notes
The prepared pasta stays well in the refrigerator for a couple of days. Alter the herbs to flat leaf parsley if the flavour of basil is too strong.
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Looks fantastic! We have some fresh basil growing in the garden now — perfect for this 🙂
I spaghetti with burnt garlic and your bowl looks so inviting. With so many cookbooks on hand, it does become tough to select one right…nice beginning though. Looking foward to reading more.
Such a simple pasta recipe! My kids will definitely love this one.The lil one does not like veggies in noodles and so this would be perfect for him!
Looks amazing. I love the way you have clicked the pics.
Thankyou Veena