Mediterranean flavours explode in this easy and delicious pasta dish! Spaghetti is tossed with a creamy anari and fresh cherry tomatoes sauce and sprinkled with halloumi-basil crumble providing a fresh and vibrant touch.
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Spaghetti Cherry Tomatoes-Anari Sauce
Servings: 4 People
Ingredients
- 300 g Spaghetti
- 100 g Anari Salted , Charalambides Christis
- 1 cup Cherry Tomatoes , halved
- 1 Clove Garlic , smashed
- 1 tbsp Sweet Chili Flakes , ground
- ½ cup Fresh Basil , stems and leaves
- 3 tbsp EVOO , Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 100 g Halloumi , Charalambides Christis, cut into small cubes.
- 3 Litres Water
- 1 tsp Sea Salt
- ½ tsp freshly ground Black Pepper
Instructions
- Place the basil, stems and most of the leaves, along with halloumi into the bowl of a food processor with the metal blade attached and pulse couple of times while taking care not to fine grate it but instead to have crumbles of halloumi. Remove from the bowl and keep aside.
- Take a high walled pan and place on medium heat. Pour the oil along with the garlic. Allow for the oil to be perfumed from the garlic and then add the cherry tomatoes. Cook for about 5’ for the tomatoes to be softened while sprinkling halfway through the chili flakes. Season with the salt and pepper and remove from the pan, garlic included, into the bowl of a food processor that we used for the halloumi. Add into it the anari and pulse for a sauce to be created and keep aside.
- In the meantime, in a large pot bring the water to a boil on high heat adding a generous amount of salt. Add the pasta, stirring occasionally so as not to stick and cook according to suggested time on the box of the pasta less 2’. Reserve 1 cup of cooking water.
- Put back into the pan the tomato sauce along with 8-10 leaves of the basil over very low heat. Add more than half a cup of the pasta water and simmer. Strain the pasta and return to the pan and if needed pour the remaining ½ cup of the reserved water and cook for an extra minute while mixing well.
- Add into a flat dish, and sprinkle with the halloumi and basil mixture and serve.
Video
Cut the halloumi into small cubes,
and add into a food processor along with basil.
Pulse and keep aside.
Cut in half,
Add oil and smashed garlic,
add the cherry tomatoes,
Sprinkle the chili flakes along with the salt and pepper.
Add into the bowl of the food processor,
along with the anari,
and pulse for a sauce to be created and keep aside.
Add the spaghetti intο salted boiling water.
Keep a cup of the pasta water.
Add the sauce into a pan along with few basil leaves,
add half of thepasta water and simmer.
Bring the pasta into the sauce,
and add more of the pasta water if needed.
Serve into a bowl,
and sprinkle with the halloumi and basil mixture.
