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I’m sharing the best recipe on how to make Penne Alla Vodka! This pasta recipe is super easy and quick to make. First, we’re going to make our very own homemade tomato sauce and then we’re going to add a dash of heavy cream, vodka, and parmesan cheese to bring it all together in 30 mins or less. This Penne Alla Vodka is just as good if not better than anything that you’ve had at an Italian restaurant. It’s the perfect date night recipe. It’s quick, easy, and a great dinner recipe to share with family and friends. You can also make this penne vodka recipe with or without pancetta or bacon. Be sure to join the Chef Zee family and subscribe!
Ingredients
1 lbs Penne Pasta
½ cup Tomato Puree
1 cup Heavy Cream
½ White Onion Diced
6 Garlic Cloves Diced
½ cup Shredded Fresh Parmesan Cheese
1 cup Vodka
½ cup Tomato Paste
2 tbsp Fresh Basil
½ cup Pasta Water
Kosher Salt & Black Pepper
Olive Oil
¼ tsp Chili Flakes *optional
1 tsp Sugar *optional
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0:51 Penne Alla Vodka Recipe
1:08 Making Pasta for Vodka Sauce
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Have you tried Penne Pasta in Vodka Sauce? You're invited!
If you like basil, tomato, cheese and pancetta, then this is for you! Penne alla vodka, an Italian American dish that became popular in the 1980s. The recipe is quite simple to make, using basic Italian ingredients plus of course some vodka. The vodka seems to bind the sauce together giving you a rich smoothness and the alcohol increases the flavour, so don’t flambe it all away. If you can’t drink alcohol, simply leave it out, most vodka’s don’t have much flavour anyway.
I prefer to blend the canned tomatoes for that smoothness that coats each piece of pasta. The artisanal pasta I used with the rough texture, is perfect for that sauce to cling to it.
Always use extra virgin olive oil, fresh basil, and good quality canned tomatoes. I prefer the cherry ones, as they have more flavour and usually sweeter in taste.
An easy to prepare amazing Italian meal, minimal ingredients and perfect for any week night dinner, or as in my case, lunch! Bon appetit or should I say buon appetite!
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Penne Alla Vodka Recipe:
For Boiling Pasta:
Water - As Needed
Salt - As Needed
Penne Pasta - 200 grams
Olive Oil - 1 tsp
Other Ingredients:
Olive Oil - 3 tbsp
Garlic (thinly sliced) - 10 Cloves
Red Chilli Flakes - 1 tsp
Onion (finely chopped) - ¼ Cup
Tomato Puree - ½ Cup
Salt - ½ tsp
Sugar - ½ tsp
Paprika powder (optional) - ¼ tsp
Black Pepper Powder - ½ tsp
Vodka - ¼ Cup
Reserved Pasta Water - ½ Cup
Mixed Italian Herbs - 1 tsp
Fresh Cream - ½ Cup
Mozzarella Cheese (grated) - ½ Cup
Cooking Instructions:
1. Bring a large pot of boiling water. Season with salt and add the pasta. Boil for 7-8 minutes or as per package instructions.
2. Reserve some of the water for using later in the sauce. Strain the pasta, toss with oil, and set aside.
3. Heat olive oil in a pan. On medium heat, saute sliced garlic and red chilli flakes until the garlic starts to brown slightly.
4. Add onion and saute until translucent. Add the vodka, stir well and allow it to evaporate.
5. Add the tomato puree, salt, red chilli powder, and black pepper powder. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly.
6. Add the reserved pasta water and Italian herbs. Bring it to a simmer.
7. Add the fresh cream and stir. Add the pasta and the grated Mozzarella cheese. Stir well and serve!
Cooking Tips:
1. Take care while adding the vodka to the pan. Keep the pan facing away from yourself, and remove any flammable liquids such as oil from near the pan.
2. This is a fun way to entertain diners and show off your cooking skills. However, if you do not want a flame, turn the heat to low and then add the vodka.
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Love Penne Alla Vodka? This Pasta in Vodka Sauce Recipe Takes It To The Next Level.
Today we are making my favorate alla vodka recipe, a twist on penne vodka aka penne, aka penne with vodka sauce. Penne alla vodka is one of the most sinfully rich pasta sauces tasted. II set out to recreate a version of penne vodka that uses a different fresh pasta.
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0:00 Finished Guacamole beauty shots
0:56 Add butter
1:26 add onion and cook
2:05 Add Garlic
2:40 Add tomato sauce
2:47 Add vodka
3:46 Add cream
5:45 cook pasta
6:53 adding cheese
8:53 Finishing sauce and pasta
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How to Make Penne alla Vodka
Boil water: Bring a pot of water to a boil to cook pasta. Season water with salt.
Saute aromatics and prosciutto: Heat oil in a separate large pot over medium heat. Add onion and prosciutto, saute 4 – 5 minutes, add garlic and red pepper flakes and saute 1 minute longer.
Add tomatoes and vodka, simmer: Remove pan from heat and add tomatoes, vodka, season with salt and pepper to taste. Return to medium-high heat, bring to a simmer then reduce heat to medium-low and let simmer until strong alcohol scent has cooked off, about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Cook pasta: Meanwhile cook pasta according to package directions. Reserve 1/2 cup pasta water and drain pasta.
Mix cream, herbs and parmesan into sauce: Stir cream into sauce and let just heat through, about 1 minute. Stir in parmesan, basil and oregano.
Toss vodka sauce and penne: Add drained pasta to pot with sauce, toss to coat, while thinning sauce with a little pasta water as needed. Serve warm with more parmesan and garnish with more basil if desired.
What does Alla vodka sauce taste like?
So what flavor does vodka add to the vodka sauce? Well, since all lot of the alcohol is cooked off you aren’t left with a alcoholic vodka taste, rather it just boosts and intensifies the flavors of the tomatoes.
This easy vodka sauce tastes vibrantly tomatoey, deliciously herby, lightly peppery and faintly smokey if you opt to use pancetta. And with the red pepper flakes it also has an exciting spicy little kick to it on the tip of your tongue.
Then when you finish it with a final enhancement of richly flavored, aged Parmigiano Reggiano and this dish becomes worthy of a fine dining restaurant!
It’s a classic Italian-American recipe that you can perfect at home with just a few easy steps! And this isn’t like a bolognese sauce, no simmering for hours here. You can have this dish ready in about 30 minutes!
penne alla vodka oringins?
he exact origins of penne alla vodka are unclear.
The first use of vodka in a pasta dish is attested to in 1974, when the Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi published the cookbook L'Abbuffone (means the bouffe-men, named after the Tognazzi's movie La Grande Bouffe), which included his recipe of pasta all'infuriata ('furious pasta'), described as a sort of pasta all'arrabbiata, made with ½ kg of penne, ½ kg of fresh peeled tomatoes, a shot of vodka, chili pepper, oil, garlic, and bay leaves. Tognazzi suggested also that, if using a Polish vodka with chilli (formidable, tremendous, very strong, very hot, deadly), the natural chilli pepper can be omitted.
There have been multiple claims to the invention of the dish. According to Pasquale Bruno Jr., author of The Ultimate Pasta Cookbook, penne alla vodka was invented at Dante, a restaurant in Bologna, Italy. Other historians of the culinary arts recognize James Doty, a graduate of Columbia University, as the inventor of penne alla vodka.
The Williams Sonoma Essentials of Italian cookbook states that it was invented in the 1980s by a Roman chef for a vodka company that wanted to popularize its product in Italy. In her book Food for Friends, Barbara Kafka writes the dish was common in Italy before becoming popular in America in the early 1980s.
Penne alla vodka
In the 1980s, another recipe based on penne and vodka, called penne alla moscovita (penne on Moscow style), but made with smoked salmon, cream and caviar (or variant with cream and shrimps), became very popular. Because of the particularity and novelty of the recipe compared to traditional Italian cuisine, it was widespread in the discos of the Emilia-Romagna Riviera with the generic name of penne alla vodka.[citation needed]
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