A little excercise in cooking with average ingredients. Nothing fancy here. Seven ingredients that gave us a great tasting little dish.
About 250 g of dried pasta (we used spaghetti from Barilla because everybody says Barilla is the worst pasta brand), 1 whole bulb of garlic, a handful of parsley, 2 tiny dried chilies, 1 regular sized can of tuna, 6-7 TBS of extra virgin olive oil (nothing to write home about), 1TS of salt.
When making such a dish you have to look at the individual ingredients as knobs on a control room board. By turning the knobs you are defining the dish according to your own preferences.
We started off with a large frying pan with olive oil on low heat to which we added sliced garlic and crumbled dried chilli. Low heat is necessary so we don't burn the garlic, then we added 2-3 ladles of salted boiling water and the spaghetti and cooked it gently so they don't burn or stick to the bottom of the pan. The frying pan is large enough to hold the spaghetti laying down. Move the pasta gently around with a wooden spoon or a silicone spatula and add the fresh basil. When the pasta becomes al dente remove from the heat and toss to bring the creaminess out.
The yellow oil, pasta starch and water emulsion is flavored with garlic and very tasty.
Add pieces of canned tuna as the last step and toss everything some more.
A drizzle of lemon juice is optional. We didn't use it.
I licked the plate clean. Others did too. Nobody wants to admit to it.๐
by One-Loss-6497