Name: Nici Wickes’ simple spaghetti
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 500 g GF spaghetti (or you can use regular); 1/4 cup olive oil; 4-6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 1/4 tsp chilli flakes; 1/4 cup lemon juice; 1/2 cup finely chopped parsley; 75 g parmesan

Nici Wickes’ simple spaghetti

This spaghetti recipe highlights the beauty of simplicity. Pasta needs little more than garlic, lemon and oil to make it into an exquisite meal – just throw plenty of flavour at it and make sure it’s cooked al dente!

Serves 4

Cook

20M

Ingredients

500 g GF spaghetti (or you can use regular)

1/4 cup olive oil

4-6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced

1/4 tsp chilli flakes

1/4 cup lemon juice

1/2 cup finely chopped parsley

75 g parmesan

Method

1.Place a large saucepan of salted water on to boil. Once it reaches a rolling boil, add in the pasta, give it a quick stir and bring it back to the boil. You now have 12 minutes to prepare the rest of the recipe!

2.In a large pan, heat 2 tbsp of the oil and gently fry the garlic. Add in the chilli flakes, remaining olive oil, lemon juice and parsley, whisking to combine.

3.When pasta is cooked al dente, scoop out half of the cooking water and set it aside before draining the pasta.

4.Tumble the pasta into the pan, add the reserved pasta water and toss everything well to coat the pasta in the sauce.

5.Add the parmesan and serve!