Spaghetti With Red Pepper Flakes, Arugula and Olive Oil

I’m crazy for pasta and I can’t imagine a life without pasta. I’m not kidding :). I can eat pasta for breakfast, lunch or dinner doesn’t matter. I can eat pasta every day and it never gets boring. I have a lot of recipes for homemade fresh pasta and a lot of sauce recipes for pastas which I made through the years.

When my days are very busy and I don’t want to spend a lot of hours in the kitchen, I like to cook spaghetti and sauce with the ingredients that I already have.

I’m so excited to share this spaghetti recipe because it’s one of my favorite pasta recipes. Usually, I make the spaghetti in combination with these ingredients, but you can use any type of pasta that you like or have in your kitchen.

This recipe is quick, healthy and not to mention very delicious. You can serve it as an appetizer or as a main meal. I use whole-wheat spaghetti but you can use regular or gluten-free. For this spaghetti I use red pepper flakes, nutritional yeast, garlic, baby arugula, olive oil and pumpkin seeds.

I just love the simplicity of this spaghetti recipe. This recipe doesn’t have a creamy sauce or a tomato sauce but when you combine the ingredients it has an absolutely amazing flavor. The arugula freshens the spaghetti, the nutritional yeast gives them a bit of a cheesy flavor and the pumpkin seeds make them crunchy.

You can make this spaghetti with red chili pepper flakes instead of sweet pepper flakes if you want to spice up the recipe, however if you don’t want it to be too spicy you can mix the red chili pepper flakes and the sweet flakes. I use dried garlic instead of fresh because I don’t want an intense garlic flavor. You can also leave out the garlic if you don’t eat garlic, it’s up to you.

This dish simply makes itself. All that is required of you is to cook the spaghetti and lightly fry all of the ingredients, mix the spaghetti together and it will be ready in less than 15 minutes.

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Prep time: 5 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
Total time: 15 mins

Whole-wheat spaghetti lightly
fried with olive oil and red 
pepper flakes. The arugula gives
awsome and fresh taste to this meal.

Author: Just Flora No Fauna
Recipe type: Lunch
Serves: 2 servings

I N G R E D I E N T S

• 7.1 oz whole-wheat spaghetti
• 3 Tbsp sweet crushed red pepper
• 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
• 1 Tbsp crushed pumpkin seeds
• 4 Tbsp olive oil
• pinch of dried garlic
• pinch of salt
• packed baby arugula

I N S T R U C T I O N S

1. Bring water to boil and cook the spaghetti according to the package instructions;
2. Put the olive oil in a pot on medium heat, add the crushed red pepper and the garlic. Stir constantly for few minutes or until the mixture becomes lightly fried;
3. Remove the pot from the heat.Add the spaghetti, nutritional yeast and salt in the pot and mix everything well;
4. Serve the spaghetti on top of the arugula and sprinkle the pumpkin seeds;