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Notes

  • Taking care of fresh basil
  • If preparing all at once at night, start boiling water for pasta first. Then cook pasta as your preparing the sauce.
  • Save 1/4 cup pasta water and drain the rest.
  • 1 pot for cooking pasta, 1 big pan for preparing sauce.
  • If you want extra sauce, get an additional small can of tomato sauce to go along with your big can of whole peeled tomatoes.

Ingredients

  • 1 can of whole peeled tomatoes (28 oz, Hunts)
  • 1 can of tomato sauce (14 oz, Optional)
  • 1 box of angel hair pasta (1 lb)
  • 1 head of garlic (bigger the better)
  • 1/2 cup fresh basil
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1/4 cup of saved pasta water

Step-By-Step Directions

  1. Wash and dry fresh basil
  2. Olive oil in pan, slowly heat up at medium low
  3. Slice the garlic, then salt it
  4. Put garlic in hot pan and let cook until infused (3-5 minutes)
  5. Remove pan from heat and let cool
  6. While cooling, julienne fresh basil (stack leaves, roll, then slice once)
  7. Add fresh basil to garlic oil and let infuse
  8. If preparing ahead of time  this is where you stop and let oil infuse
  9. Start boiling water then cook pasta when its boiling (if you haven’t already). Save 1/4 cup pasta water and drain the rest.
  10. Heat up garlic/basil oil on medium heat
  11. Open can of tomatoes and dice (cut in half, then slice in half one more time, then 3 cuts)
  12. Save liquid from can, and if using extra can of just sauce, open that and put it in big can
  13. Put tomatoes in pan with oil, spread them out and salt them
  14. Add remaining sauce and salt it
  15. Mix and heat up until warm
  16. Take 1/2 the sauce out and put into small mixing bowl with lid
  17. Toss pasta with the pasta water and the other 1/2 of the sauce left in the pan

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