This easy chilli spaghetti for two recipe requires only nine ingredients and 15 minutes, and the sauce really packs a punch!
Spaghetti is the ultimate comfort food. It brings me back to my childhood and the eight zillion plates of spaghetti I grew up on—spaghetti swimming in jarred Ragu sauce. Gosh, I loved that stuff. There were no lashings of cheese to serve over the top of it either (we were poor—cheese was a luxury); it was cooked pasta with a jar of sauce poured over it. Absolute heaven.
I remember getting a bit older and learning to cook the spaghetti myself. My mother taught me that it was done when it stuck to the wall (or ceiling) when flung at high velocity. I had to climb on many a chair to remove a piece of hot-cooked spaghetti sticking to the ceiling!
A few months ago, I learned about Sardinia’s traditional simple tomato sauce. In this sauce, garlic is cooked briefly in olive oil before adding passata and then a handful of basil. This is now, I believe, my children’s favourite pasta sauce recipe. Plates are cleared every time I cook this for them. Yay me!
What you’ll need…
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves finely chopped
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 170 grams passata rustica
- 2 tbsp fresh basil leaves torn
- 1 tbsp chilli-infused olive oil
- Shetland sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 200 grams of dried spaghetti
How to make it…
- Bring a large pan of salted water to a boil and cook the spaghetti according to the packet instructions.
- Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a small saucepan.
- Add the chopped garlic and oregano and gently saute for a minute or two until the garlic is fragrant.
- Add the passata, cook for a further minute, and remove from the heat.
- Stir in the torn basil leaves and the chilli-infused olive oil. Season to taste.
- Drain the spaghetti, coat it with the sauce, and serve it with plenty of Parmesan!
Recipe Difficulty Levels
Easy
Requires basic cooking skills and ingredients you most likely already have in your kitchen.
Moderate
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Challenging
Recipes requiring more advanced skills and experience and maybe some special equipment.
15-minute Chilli Spaghetti Recipe for Two
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil I use Pomora, see badge in sidebar
- 3 garlic cloves finely chopped
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 170 grams passata rustica
- 2 tbsp fresh basil leaves torn
- 1 tbsp chilli infused olive oil I use Pomora, see badge in sidebar
- Shetland sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 200 grams dried spaghetti
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Instructions
- Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and cook the spaghetti according to the packet instructions.
- Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a small saucepan.
- Add the chopped garlic and oregano and gently saute for a minute or two, until the garlic imparts its fragrance.
- Add the passta, cook for a further minute or two, and remove from the heat.
- Stir in the torn basil leaves and the chilli infused olive oil. Season to taste.
- Drain the spaghetti, coat with the sauce and serve with plenty of Parmesan!
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Tastes very good. My family loved it. Will definitely make it again.
Nice, quick and easy – ideal for me
I will make this for lunch soon. Will have to get some Chilli olive oil. Thanks for sharing. The taste of chilli and garlic together is mouthwatering.
This recipe looks so amazing and refreshing.
I love all the “spaghetti” dishes and I definitely gonna try this at my home.
My stomach is rumbling reading this and looking at the photographs. I am buying the ingredients on the weekend! x
easy and quick recipe of chilli spaghetti sounds so delicious!
Looks so delicious. Will try it some time
I tried it tastes really good
This sounds absolutely yummy and quite easy to prepare. My little one loves spaghetti. i am going to try this one on this weekend
This is how I make my sauces as well – they’re so good and so easy – I can’t imagine buying a jarred sauce anymore!
I really love spaghetti and it is very easy recipe that everyone can easily make.
I love looks fab and your photos are gorgeous!
Looks delicious Elizabeth! Such simple flavours done well – yum!
This looks fab. Pinning x
This is my kind of dinner!! We just had some spiced up pasta with smoked paprika powder. Using chilli infused oil sounds delicious 🙂
And thank you for mentioning our kale pasta.
This looks so wonderful, fresh simple ingredients – and such a vibrant and delicious dish! I adore spaghetti, cant imagine life without it! Thank you so much for linking to my recipe 🙂
This looks wonderful – and now that it is bookmarked I am hoping it will appeal to my fussy one. I confess that I have bought a jar of pasta sauce and it has gone off because I did not think to use it. And an uninterrupted lunch with no nagging sounds like bliss!
This looks so pretty. I love the addition of the chilli infused olive oil. Sounds delicious. This will make a perfect meal on a week night.
I love the smaller portion idea of this dish! Sometimes I don’t want to feed an army and this spaghetti would be perfect. It looks delightful! I can’t wait to try it.
Wow Your hubbies work schedule is so nice! Love the recipe pictures are gorgeous and the recipe seems easy enough! Will save this one!
Spaghetti is my go- to dish because I can’t cook much. I’ll try this version to change things up a bit next time 🙂
I love simple homemade pasta sauce – without the chilli for me though!
Love how you’ve presented this dish, so simple and sophisticated at same time!
my husband loves pasta. I can’t wait to make this for him!!!
This is my favorite kind of recipe! Simple to let all the flavor of the ingredients shine!
Looks lush! You can’t beat a quick and easy pasta.
I do love a good quality chilli oil. I add chilli to lots of my pasta dishes. This looks delicious and simple which is just perfect.
I do love a simple spaghetti recipe! This looks to good – I love the sound of that chilli oil.
Just the sort of quick and easy spaghetti sauce I love, looks fab and your photos are gorgeous!
This is definitely one of our favourite family meals too, it’s hard to believe how none of us ever tire of this meal and it’s always so much better to make your own pasta sauce. It will be on our menu this week!
Simple and beautiful. If you’re feeling particularly naughty, surely a dash of double cream would also work. Proud to say I’ve never eaten jarred pasta sauce!