Recipe: Tasty Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon)

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Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon). Aglio e Olio is one of the most basic pasta sauce made from garlic and oil. By making the aglio olio with fat left from cooking bacon, the classic spaghetti aglio olio is taken up a notch. One of my favorite food bloggers is Richa, from My Food Story.

Serve this along with some toasted cheese garlic bread and a refreshing salad for a fulfilling meal.

This take on the classic Aglio e Olio adds bacon and arugula to the mix for a delicious, easy dinner. (Courtesy Lynda Balslev) By Lynda Balslev, Columnist

Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon) step by step In a large saucepan cover base with rapeseed oil and put on a medium high heat till it shimmers.

You can cook Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon) using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon)

1. You need of High Quality Rapeseed Oil.

2. Prepare 8 of Large Garlic Cloves.

3. It’s Teaspoon of Chilli Flakes.

4. Prepare of Linguine.

5. Prepare of Parsley.

6. It’s of Salt and Pepper.

7. Prepare 2 of Rashes of Smoked Bacon.

Whilst waiting finely chop the garlic cloves before adding to the oil until softened and brown around the edges.

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This means adding the garlic to the oil at a low heat (or preferably adding it when the oil is still cold) and slowly letting the garlic infuse.

It is packed with so much flavor, and it is amazingly garlicky without being too overpowering.

Aglio e Olio (with Smoked Bacon) step by step

1. In a large saucepan cover base with rapeseed oil and put on a medium high heat till it shimmers. Whilst waiting finely chop the garlic cloves before adding to the oil until softened and brown around the edges. Take off the heat and add chilli flakes..

2. Boil linguine in salted water until just under aldente. Save at least one cup of pasta water for sauce. Finely slice the smoked bacon into small squares, before cooking off in a separate pan..

3. Add the bacon and pasta to the oil, garlic and chilli flakes and allow the flavours to get to know each other. Add small amounts of the pasta water to help create a sauce to cover the pasta..

4. Season with salt and pepper to taste until the pasta is cooked. Plate up, sprinkle over some parsley and serve immediately. This is best eaten straight away!.

Serve with wine and crusty garlic bread!

No two spaghetti aglio e olio recipes are alike, but this one is pretty true to the classic method.

The key is slowly toasting the garlic slices to a perfect golden-brown in the olive oil.

If it's too light, you don't get the full flavor and if it's too dark it gets bitter.

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