Delicious garlic noodles with a slight spicy kick from the crushed red peppers. This recipe is quick, taking less than 20 minutes to prep and cook, and easy with the use of just 5 main ingredients!
As you can already tell, I have another quick and easy recipe, perfect for a simple yet delicious lunch or dinner, when you have little time to spare. These noodles will taste amazing if you’re a garlic lover. It’s very garlicky and it has just a hint of spiciness from the crushed red peppers. What’s amazing about these noodles is that it’s healthy too. Instead of using butter, I used olive oil. So you can eat your fill without any of the guilt.
First, cook the pasta according to the directions on the box. I used half a box of spaghetti, which is perfect for 1-2 people, but you can easily double this recipe to serve more people. My pasta took about 6-7 minutes to become al dente.
While the pasta is cooking, you can mince about 10 cloves of garlic. I thought this was the perfect amount of garlic. However, if you really love the taste of garlic, you can always add more.
Once the pasta is finished cooking, keep about 1/8 cup of the pasta water and then drain the spaghetti. Run them through cold water to keep the noodles from sticking to each other. Drain the pasta again and set them aside for now.
In a large skillet, heat about 1/8 cup of olive oil over low heat. Add in the minced garlic and cook until the garlic turns golden brown. This process makes the garlic more fragrant. However, keep an eye on the garlic to make sure they don’t burn. It’s very easy to overcook garlic, which will ruin the flavor.
Next, add the spaghetti into the skillet, and stir to evenly distribute the minced garlic. Add in half of the reserved pasta water to keep the noodles from being dry. Pour in more pasta water if needed. The pasta water helps make the noodles moist and creates the sauce.
Toss in the crushed red peppers and sprinkle in the salt, to taste. I love spicy as you probably noticed from my previous recipes. But I know that not everyone can eat spicy so it’s perfectly fine to omit the crushed red peppers. It’ll just become healthy garlic noodles.
Divide the noodles into two plates and add fresh chopped parsley on top for garnish. Serve cold or warm.
Enjoy!
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Looks really delicious! I love lots of garlic in my meals.
Saskia
Thanks, Saskia! I love garlic too =)
a good recipe, healthy, simple and easy, great combination of ingredients and very tasty and delicious 🙂
It looks so tasty. I love garlic and anything spicy with pasta.
Thank you!
In Italy, a lot of friends called this “Spaghetti di Mezzanotte” – literally midnight spaghetti. Once of my favorite cookbooks describes this as what girls would make after getting home from a night of dancing, because the ingredients were always on hand and it was quick and easy. It’s a classic in my book!
Thanks for letting me know! I learned something new today. It’s always fun to learn the story behind certain foods =)
I’m calling this, “Tonight’s Dinner.”
I hope you’ll enjoy them =)
These were awesome!!! So simple love the recipe. The crushed red pepper gives these noodles a great kick. Loving them cold!
I’m so glad you liked them! Thanks for trying out the recipe =)
Wow. This makes me really hungry for the noodles my mom made for us when we were rug rats in the Philippines!
Sounds absolutely yummy (I’m fasting today which adds a bit to my perception of the recepie…). But I know what I’ll have for lunch tomorrow!
I hope you’ll enjoy it =)
Yummy! Will have to make with gluten-free pasta, of course… but YUMMY!! 🙂 xo
Thanks, Joanna!
This looks so delicious, I have a similar recipe that includes Parmesan cheese and butter instead of Olive Oil, I am definitely going to try this version. Thanks for posting it!
The addition of Parmesan cheese sounds amazing. I decided to use olive oil for this recipe instead of butter since I wanted to try making a “healthy” dish. Thanks for stopping by! =)