How about a 15 minute spicy pasta recipe for those busy nights when all you want to do is stop and do nothing?
If that sounds like a great plan, keep reading.
What to expect: a creamy and spicy pasta dish that’s quick and full of flavour. Bite into the aldente rigatoni covered in a creamy burrata sauce that is flavoured with Cannonata and enriched with tuna for the added protein and taste.
PS: if you don’t like tuna or are vegetarian/vegan, simply leave it out.
A delicious and Quick Spicy Pasta Recipe
Spicy Italian Pasta Sauce
If you like a spicy pasta, you can of course take most of the popular Italian pasta dishes and make it spicy by simply adding some chilli powder or flakes, either in the sauce when cooking or on top of your serving.
Try Spicing Up These
Add spice to your pasta sauces plus a ton of flavour with these sauces:
Belmorso Pronto Spaghetti is great to dress your plain spaghetti and instantly give it a nice rich tomato sauce that’s also a little spicy.
Belmorso Cannonata can be used on its own mixed in pasta, or along a cream or cheese. It’s spicier than Pronto Spaghetti but not extremely spicy. (This is what we are using in this recipe).
What’s the difference between penne and rigatoni?
The main difference between penne and rigatoni is that penne is smaller in diameter and also shorter than rigatoni, plus penne is cut diagonally whereas rigatoni has a straight cut.
If you don’t have rigatoni, go ahead and use penne instead. Tortiglioni is also another great alternative.
We suggest rigatoni over the other two because its large diameter makes it especially delicious when the creamy burrata gets inside the hole.
How Much Rigatoni is Enough For One Person?
I always suggest the following pasta portions:
- 100 grams if you are on a diet, don’t feel to hungry, or you are a small eater
- 125 grams for a medium portion
- 150 grams for a large portion
The above portions of pasta are only suitable for dry pasta.
As a general rule, you always need to cook more fresh pasta than dry because it weighs more.
Here is the Artisan Rigatoni we are using for this spicy pasta recipe. It’s made in Italy by a small producer in Puglia.
How to Make Pasta Extra Tasty?
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