Arrabbiata is Italian for angry, which sums up the delicious bite from the garlic and chili. The arrabbiata sauce has a wonderful tomato base with crispy bits of bacon, lots of onion, garlic, dried red chili pepper flakes and fresh basil. I tossed this with spaghetti, but it would be great with any type of pasta.
I made this for my sister-in-law Rachel, who was looking for a recipe. It was so good that Pete and I along with my parents devoured the entire pot for lunch.
I am posting this on a Sunday, hoping that this will be the perfect solution for tonight’s dinner. The entire dish takes 15 minutes or less to prepare which I figured would be very helpful at the end of a weekend that I am sure was totally busy prepping for the Holidays! It would be so delish with a fresh green salad and some wonderful crusty bread at the ready to sop up any leftover sauce.
Arrabbiata Pasta, serves 4-6
1 lb of pasta
4 strips of bacon
½ yellow onion, small diced
3 large cloves of garlic, minced
28oz diced tomato
1 ½ tsp red pepper flakes
½ cup fresh basil leaves, lightly packed
kosher salt to taste
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
While you are bringing the water to a boil, cook the bacon in a large sauté pan.
Add the pasta to the water and cook according to the manufacturers directions.
Cook the bacon until crispy. Remove the bacon and drain, then chop- reserve the bacon fat in the pan.
Add the onion to the bacon fat and cook over medium heat for a couple of minutes- then add the garlic. Sprinkle with salt and cook until soft and translucent- about 3 minutes.
Add the diced tomatoes and mix in well.
Add the red pepper flakes and basil and the chopped bacon.
Stir well and season with Kosher salt.
Drain the pasta when it is al dente and add the pasta to the sauce.
Serve hot!
Definitely a must try for me! Your basil looks so fresh. Do you purchase or grow yourself? If you grow yourself what do you do year round to keep it healthy? Thanks Heather.
I do still have some straggeling basil because we have had such a mild fall- but this was totally from the grocery store!!
side note Angela- my DREAM is to have a greenhouse one day and have fresh homegrown herbs all year!
for an angry pasta it sure does look heavenly 🙂 anything with that much garlic is for me!
This looks divine and is something everyone in my house will love! Just wondering, what does the pf mean in terms of the diced tomatoes?
ak! just a typo! sorry!
Looks yummy and I think this may be dinner tonight after hosting a party last night for 20 – serving my first ever beef center-cut tenderloin with a mushroom ragout sauce. Question: your direction say “add chile” – that’s the red pepper flakes, right? Thank-you. love your recipes.
yes! Sorry- I will change to red pepper flakes! Thanks Christy! (How did the party go?!)
Brava! They say, more peperoncino and the more arrabbiata the pasta is! its a traditional sauce from rome, but every region makes their own version… I liked the video of you with the homemade gifts!!:-) ciao, from italia…
Bacon! duh…no wonder my pasta sauce always tastes so flat!!
Love how quick & easy this recipe is!! and love how FRESH you can make it, especially if you use fresh tomatoes if you have it!
thanks Jen 🙂
A typo! Sheesh, I should have figured that out and here I was thinking it was some special culinary lingo! 🙂
Made this tonight – delicious and I had everything on hand at home. Very tasty!
Party went very very well – thanks for asking. Sorry I didn’t get to meet you at the Gray maazine Launch party. My daughter is the Editor-at-Large. She said I should introdce myself. Next time.
shoot! I was in NYC at the time and was totally disappointed not to have been there!
One of my all time FAVORITE pasta sauces. This and puttanesca 🙂
One of my favorite go-to weeknight meals.
I love how easy this dish is. I am bookmarking it!
Delicious! One of my all-time favorite pasta dishes!
Found this recipe while surfing Internet. Simply stated, this recipe is F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!! Also, it was so very, very easy to prepare. Thank you, Heather!!