Italian

Penne Arrabbiata

Name: Penne Arrabbiata
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb penne; 28 oz crushed tomatoes; 5 garlic cloves; 1.5 tsp red pepper flakes; 1/4 cup olive oil; 1/4 cup chopped parsley; 1/2 tsp salt

Marco @marco_bologna

Penne Arrabbiata is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Heart healthy High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb penne
28 oz crushed tomatoes
5 garlic cloves
1.5 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the penne until al dente.
Meanwhile heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium and cook the sliced garlic and red pepper flakes until fragrant and just golden, about 2 minutes.
Pour in the crushed tomatoes, season with salt, and simmer until thickened, about 12 minutes.
Reserve a cup of pasta water before draining the penne.
Toss the pasta with the spicy sauce, loosening with pasta water as needed.
Stir in the parsley and serve.

Watch how to cook Penne Arrabbiata

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Penne Arrabbiata | Gennaro Contaldo Play the video

Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Penne Arrabbiata, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Penne Arrabbiata carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Penne Arrabbiata
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 450 kcal
Protein: 11 g
Carbs: 72 g
Fat: 13 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Penne Arrabbiata takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.