Spaghetti with Garlic, Olive Oil and Red Pepper Flakes

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This dish was a bit bland for my palette, but had a pleasant flavor to it. At least this was easy to make and since the ingredient profile is so simple, you can add more flavors or spices to it if desired.

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I love spicy food so this was a great dish and easy. Initially I did not have all the ingredients, so I did without garlic, parsley, and mint and used dried basil instead. I also added bacon that was already cooked I had in the fridge and cut them into bit size pieces and placed them into the olive oil to warm them up and found it added a nice flavor to the olive oil and overall taste of the dish. It also made the dish not too plain because I like some sort of meat or contrast to a dish rather than just spaghetti.

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Horrible. I ended up making spaghetti sauce to put over it. Awful flavor.

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I followed this recipe to a T and I like spicy food generally...but this was a miss. It was way to hot and the additional of the parsley, mint, basil - while better than if omitted, combined strangely with the level of spice.
Also there were not clear times for how long to cook the garlic and as a result my oil got very hot, so when i put the read pepper flakes in the pan, they almost immediately burned.

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I did Rachel Ray's variation on this recipe (the greens were scallions and swiss chard rather than mint and whatnot, but still had garlic and I liked it a lot. So did the family. Just be sure when you make it, add an extra clove of garlic is you aren't using larger cloves - this will give you lots of extra flavor rather than just little hints of garlic and lots of spaghetti. Also, butter the noodles.

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I followed other reviews and put in one t not one T of red pepper flakes since someone said the recipe in her book as one t. However, I found the recipe too bland for my palate. I added balsamic vinegar after a few bites, and some tomatoes & parm, and it was pretty good.

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Amazing! I was looking for a simple, quick recipe and found this. It exceeded my expectations!

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Easy and quick with lots of flavour. Perfect for those people on the go with little time to prepare a big meal. Thanks Giada.

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This is my 5 year old son's favourite meal. We serve it with chicken breasts. It is easy, light and tasty!

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Thank you for posting this recipe as I needed a basic that I could work with. Reading the reviews by others also helped.

Instead of spaghetti I used Rotelli pasta as it seems to hold the olive oil more in place.

I also cut way back on the red pepper flakes since heartburn is a major factor here. Cut it to 1/4 teaspoon. Also I cut the Basil to just over 1/2 tablespoon and used crushed garlic (about two teaspoons and left it in the mix.

By doing this I got a well balanced flavor as too much basil can cancel out the garlic. Originally I did try straining out the lightly browned garlic but it was too bland in flavor and added more crushed garlic before adding the pasta.

The use of two tablespoons of the pasta water worked like a dream. As a side note though, once you add it, you should remove the pan from the stove immediately and keep stirring. Had I left it on the stove as suggested in the recipe, it might have burned.