My favorite project in Practical Living was making Gigi Hadid’s pasta. For this project I made homemade noodles. I really enjoyed making them. During the lab I think most things went well but one thing I would suggest for people when making homemade noodles would be to make wider noodles. While using the pasta cutter machine I found that cutting wider noodles made a better result. I would rate this recipe an 8 out of ten because it had a good flavor and was overall an easy recipe to follow.
Ingredients:
¼ cup olive oil
1 small clove of garlic, diced
¼ green onion
¼ cup tomato paste
½ cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon vodka
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
225 grams of shells pasta
1 tablespoon butter
¼ cup parmesan cheese
Basil, chopped, to serve
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
In a large saucepan, heat the olive oil, garlic and onion. Cook until soft. Add tomato paste and cook until it appears “darker [in colour] / a bit caramelised”. Add in the heavy cream. Add vodka and cook through until evaporated. Add in the red pepper flakes. [There is a special note from the chef here to add in more flakes if you like it extra spicy].
Keep stirring until combined. Season with salt and pepper. Remove sauce from the heat.
Cook pasta separately. The chef uses shells but Orecchiette would also work well. When the pasta is done, save ¼ of the pasta water before draining. Add in the butter. Stir over a medium heat til the butter has melted and the sauce is “sauccyyyy”.
Add pasta – and the pasta water – to the sauce. Add parmesan cheese and stir. Add more salt and pepper to taste. Top with a sprinkling of parmesan cheese and basil to serve.
And that, my friends, is Gigi Hadid’s Spicy Vodka Pasta.
