Photo: Spaghetti all' Elsa Recipe
You may think you know how to make spaghetti with sausage, peppers, and onions but my momma has a few twists that makes hers better than yours or maybe even your mama's - strong words, but just taste!
Ingredients
- Salt
- 1 pound Italian imported dried spaghetti
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 3 turns of the pan
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/3 cup chicken stock or white wine, eyeball it
- 1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes (recommended: San Marzano), plus 1 (14-ounce) can
- Several leaves basil, torn or chopped, a handful
- 2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
Directions
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Salt the water and add pasta. Cook to al dente, with a bite to it.
Heat a medium sauce pot over medium-low heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil, garlic, and red pepper and let them cook 5 minutes, garlic will be soft and light golden. Remove garlic. Add stock or wine and stir 30 seconds, add tomatoes and combine. Season the sauce with salt, to taste, then stir basil in and reduce heat to low.
When pasta is cooked, turn off the heat, drain the pasta then add it back to the still-hot, deep pot. Add butter to spaghetti and toss to melt and coat. Add half the red sauce and all of the cheese, work in a handful at a time as you toss to combine. To serve, use tongs or a meat fork to swirl the pasta into buttery, cheesy mounds to pile onto each plate. Top each portion with spoonfuls of remaining sauce. Whoa, Mama!
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By lovesdanger
Pasadena, CA
on November 10, 2011
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very very tasty and easy! I just got recently engaged and am always on the look out for easy and cheap recipes and this is perfect!!! so good!
By Soupey
on July 05, 2011
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This has to be the best, easiest, tastiest sauce I've ever made! I used to cook sauce all day, everyone loved my sauce. Then I switched to doctored up "jar" sauce. I know, but when you are in a hurry, it works! ! I doubt that I will ever buy another jar of sauce or make my sauce the old fashioned way again, this is so good and easy. It makes my mouth water thinking about it! I warmed peppers and Italian sausage to serve with last time, could use meatballs, chicken, or just eat it plain. Yummo, Rach & Mama!!!
By barbaradell61
bethpage, NY
on September 15, 2010
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This is the sauce I make when I need a quick sauce. During the week i make this with meatballs, chicken cutlets, eggplant or anything. It's so fast to make and really delicious. thank you Mrs. Scuderi for a great recipe.
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