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    Arrabiata Pasta Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 8, 2025 by Aarthi

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    Arrabiata Pasta Recipe with step by step pictures. This is a simple yet flavorful dish that you can easily make at home. It is a spicy tomato sauce made with olive oil, garlic, tomato and red chilli flakes.

    Arrabiata Pasta Recipe

    Arrabbiata / Arrabiata Pasta is one dish which was staying in mind for quite a long time. This pasta has a tomato base but few more herbs and a little extra spice makes it really tasty and kind of addictive.

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    Ingredients for Arrabiata Pasta

    • Macaroni or any pasta - 1 cup
    • Water - 5 to 6 cups
    • Salt - 1 tbsp

    For Sauce:

    • Olive Oil - 3 tblspn
    • Tomatoes - 3 large ripe
    • Garlic - 6 fat cloves chopped finely
    • Onion - 1 medium size chopped finely
    • Chilli Flakes or Chilli Powder - 1 tblspn or to taste
    • Pepper Powder - ½ tsp
    • Tomato Ketchup - 2 tblspn
    • Salt to taste
    • Sugar - ½ tsp or to taste
    • Italian Seasoning - ½ tsp
    • Dried Basil - ½ tsp
    • Lemon Juice / Vinegar - ½ tsp or to taste
     
    The sauce for this pasta is really spicy and flavourful with lots of garlic, onions, basil and italian herbs. You can make a bunch of this sauce and keep it fridge for more than a week. 
     
    My Other Tomato Based Pasta,
    Tomato Pasta
    Creamy Tomato Pasta
    Cheesy Tomato Pasta Sauce
    Homemade Pasta Sauce
     
     
    I have made two more special pasta recipes as well. So you will seeing quite a few pasta recipes in my blog in the coming post..
     
     
    Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

    How to Make Arrabiata Pasta

    1. Take some water in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Make a plus sign in the bottom of tomatoes and drop it in boiling water.
    2. Let it simmer for 2 mins, till you see the peels coming off.
    3. Now remove the tomatoes and drop them in cold water. Let it sit for 2 mins or so.
    4. Now peel off the skin and take the tomatoes in a blender. Puree them smoothly.
    5. Heat oil in a kadai. Add in the garlic and onions. Cook till it turns light golden.
    6. Now add in the tomato puree and cook till it is cooked.
    7. Add in ketchup and other ingredients except lemon juice and cook till oil separates from the mix.
    8. Add lemon juice and mix well.Sauce done.
    9. Meanwhile cook pasta in lots of boiling salted water till it is cooked. Drain and toss with the sauce.
    10. Instead of tossing, you can serve some sauce over cooked pasta as well.
     
     

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    Arrabiata Pasta Recipe

    Arrabiata Pasta Recipe with step by step pictures. This is a simple yet flavourful dish that you can easily make at home. It is a spicy tomato sauce made with olive oil, garlic, tomato and red chilli flakes.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Servings: 2 servings

    Ingredients

    • Macaroni or any pasta - 1 cup
    • Water - 5 to 6 cups
    • Salt - 1 tblspn
    • For Sauce:
    • Olive Oil - 3 tblspn
    • Tomatoes - 3 large ripe
    • Garlic - 6 fat cloves chopped finely
    • Onion - 1 medium size chopped finely
    • Chilli Flakes or Chilli Powder - 1 tblspn or to taste
    • Pepper Powder - ½ tsp
    • Tomato Ketchup - 2 tblspn
    • Salt to taste
    • Sugar - ½ tsp or to taste
    • Italian Seasoning - ½ tsp
    • Dried Basil - ½ tsp
    • Lemon Juice / Vinegar - ½ tsp or to taste

    Instructions

    • Take some water in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Make a plus sign in the bottom of tomatoes and drop it in boiling water.
    • Let it simmer for 2 mins, till you see the peels coming off.
    • Now remove the tomatoes and drop them in cold water. Let it sit for 2 mins or so.
    • Now peel off the skin and take the tomatoes in a blender. Puree them smoothly.
    • Heat oil in a kadai. Add in the garlic and onions. Cook till it turns light golden.
    • Now add in the tomato puree and cook till it is cooked.
    • Add in ketchup and other ingredients except lemon juice and cook till oil separates from the mix.
    • Add lemon juice and mix well.Sauce done.
    • Meanwhile cook pasta in lots of boiling salted water till it is cooked. Drain and toss with the sauce.
    • Instead of tossing, you can serve some sauce over cooked pasta as well.
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    Arrabiata Pasta Recipe Step by Step

    Take all your ingredients for the sauce

     

     

    First take some red ripe tomatoes

     

     

    make a cross like this

     

     

    drop them in hot boiling water and let them simmer for 2 mins

     

     

    now you can see the peel started coming away

     

     

    remove the tomatoes and drop them in cold water

     

     

    let them sit for 2 mins

     

     

    now you can peel off the skin straight away

     

     

    Take the peeled tomatoes in a blender

     

     

    puree finely

     

     

    Heat olive oil in a kadai

     

     

    Add in lots of chopped garlic

     

     

    add in chopped onions

     

     

    cook till it gets light golden

     

     

    add in tomato puree

     

     

    mix well and cook 

     

     

    Add in some tomato ketchup

     

     

    chilli powder

     

     

    salt, sugar and pepper

     

     

    some basil

     

     

    and some italian seasoning cook till oil separates

     

     

    add in lemon juice and turn off the heat

     

     

    Now you can see the oil has separated from the mix

     

     

    sauce done

     

     

     

     

     

    Now cook pasta in lots of salted boiling water

     

     

    drop macaroni in

     

     

    cook till done

     

     

    drain it

     

     

    place some pasta in a plate

     

     

    spoon some sauce over it

     

     

    enjoy

     

     

    You can mix them up and enjoy too..
     

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    1. Anonymous

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      Hi arthi.. Very nice recipe... Love it... Thank u...

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    2. Anonymous

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      its really yummy

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    3. durga kalyan

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      tried this yesterday and it was super tasty.thanks for the recipe.

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    4. Parthenonindy Restaurant

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      This recipe looking so yummy and tempting i will surely try this thanks for sharing this recipes.
      https://www.parthenonindy.com

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    5. Ambika Rathnam

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      Can I add nandos peri peri sauce instead of ketchup

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    6. Aarthi

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      @Ambika Rathnamyes u can use..but the flavour will be diff

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    7. Anonymous

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      Looks super delicious. Can't wait to make it. The other day I made the white sauce from your blog and it was so yum! 🙂

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