Spaghetti with fresh basil

Today, a very quick and easy dish. It might seem as though it won’t have a particularly distinctive flavour either, but fresh basil, Parmesan and garlic give it a wonderfully „colourful” aroma.

So I won’t go on at length: if you like pasta with green pesto, but don’t have the ingredients for it, I recommend this very simple „stand-in” recipe.

PS

Today’s photos win the „Golden Raspberry” award. That’s why there are so few of them.

At a glance:

Preparation time: 12 minutes (including 9 to cook the pasta)

Serves: 1 person (you can multiply the ingredients)

How many calories: the usual for pasta, but this is light pasta

Ingredients for pasta with fresh basil:

• 1 pot of fresh basil (the kind you can buy in most shops selling vegetables)
• 3 cloves of garlic
• a 4 cm piece of green chilli
• a small piece of Parmesan
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• spaghetti
• olive oil

Recipe for quick and easy spaghetti:

Making this spaghetti is incredibly simple. First I cooked the spaghetti (9 minutes). I drained it and set it aside.

I washed and dried the basil (I simply cut the whole lot from the pot). I crushed the garlic and chopped it finely. I did the same with the hot green chilli. I heated olive oil in a frying pan (literally a couple of tablespoons) and added the garlic and chilli. I stirred and fried them for just a minute (over medium „heat”, which on my hob is 6 on a scale of 1 – 10).

Next I added the previously cooked pasta to the pan and mixed it in. I seasoned it with freshly ground pepper and a little salt. I added finely chopped Parmesan and mixed thoroughly. I fried it for about a minute, then took it off the „heat”.

I chopped the basil (into fairly large pieces) and added it to the pasta (it must no longer be frying, or the basil will turn bitter). I mixed it in. The dish is ready. Enjoy!