This marry me pasta recipe is the easiest pasta we've ever made, but somehow one of the best. It's perfect to make on Valentine's Day.
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00:00Hey, it's Frankie from the Delish Kitchen Studios.
00:02I know you've heard of Marry Me Chicken.
00:05I know you've seen it on the internet, on TikTok,
00:07Marry Me everything.
00:09Well, Marry Me Chicken originated at Delish,
00:12and we decided to take it a different direction
00:14and create Marry Me Pasta,
00:15which I get to make and I'm stoked about
00:17because pasta's my favorite thing in the world.
00:20It's creamy, it has sun-dried tomatoes,
00:23it has lots of cheese.
00:24It's gonna be delightful.
00:26Let's do it.
00:27I decided to use rigatoni for this dish
00:29because it's one of my favorite pasta shapes
00:31and it grasps onto that sauce so well.
00:34There are a couple kinds.
00:35You could use a larger classic rigatoni
00:37or you could use a mezze or a smaller rigatoni,
00:40which is what I've decided to use today.
00:43Mezze rigatoni are good because they're smaller,
00:45you could pick up more on your fork.
00:47They're just bite-sized.
00:49Water's boiling, which means time to add the salt.
00:53I want this to be so salty that it reminds me
00:55of whenever I need to gargle my throat with salted water.
00:58It should be that salty.
01:00We're gonna cook the pasta for about five to seven minutes,
01:03just until it's really al dente,
01:05since it's gonna continue to cook in the sauce.
01:08When you go to mix the pasta in the water,
01:10the pasta should still feel a little bit hard
01:12against your spoon.
01:13That's when you'll know it's al dente.
01:16Reserving pasta water is very important for this dish.
01:18Along with the cream, it's going to help thicken the sauce
01:21because there's a lot of concentrated starch in the water.
01:25So I'm gonna reserve about one cup of it.
01:29Probably, look how starchy that is.
01:32That is exactly what you want.
01:34Now we're gonna make our sauce.
01:35I'm gonna saute the aromatics
01:37in a large skillet over medium heat,
01:39and I'm gonna use some olive oil,
01:41the best of the olive oil you have,
01:44just about one to two tablespoons.
01:46Let that get hot.
01:47You don't want it ripping hot.
01:48You don't want it smoking.
01:50You could kind of gauge it
01:51as you move it around in the pan a little bit.
01:53I'm gonna add the garlic to the pan.
01:55The oil's nice and hot.
01:57You only want a little bit of a sizzle
01:59when you add the garlic in because, first of all,
02:01garlic is very sweet.
02:04It doesn't taste sweet, but there's a lot of sugar in it,
02:06so it will burn really quickly.
02:08So you wanna maintain a very low, slow temperature.
02:12Give it a little stir into the oil
02:14so it's surrounded by fat.
02:17I'm going to add fresh thyme.
02:20You could use dried if you don't have it.
02:22And crushed red pepper flakes, just for a little heat.
02:27Just gonna let this go for one to two minutes.
02:30Do not want really any color on the garlic.
02:33It should kind of sweat more than anything.
02:36If it gets too golden brown, it's gonna be crunchy,
02:38it's gonna be bitter.
02:39We don't like that.
02:40I'm going to add in the sun-dried tomatoes
02:42and cook that for about a minute until it starts to soften.
02:45I add chicken stock before I add the cream
02:47so that the chicken stock creates a barrier
02:49between the heat and the cream to avoid breaking.
02:52And I also turn the heat down really low,
02:55or even take it off the heat sometimes.
02:57And a little bit of Parmesan cheese.
02:59I'm gonna grate that in, adding more as needed.
03:02We'll let that come to a simmer
03:03and cook for about five minutes
03:05until it starts to get thick and glossy.
03:07This is starting to look exactly how I want it.
03:10Now I'm going to add the pasta in.
03:12Now I'm going to add some pasta water,
03:14which is gonna help thicken it
03:16and give it a nice, glossy sheen.
03:18You can add more than the half a cup
03:20that is asked for in the recipe,
03:22or you can add a little less.
03:23It really all depends on your preference,
03:25how saucy you want it, how thick you want it.
03:28I like it saucy.
03:30This looks like restaurant-quality pasta.
03:32Glossy, creamy, perfection.
03:36I'm gonna garnish this with a little bit of hand-torn basil
03:39and some more grated Parmesan cheese.
03:42It's saucy, but you're not seeing these pools of sauce
03:45at the bottom of the plate.
03:46It grabs onto the pasta,
03:47grabs onto the ridges on the mezze rigatoni,
03:50and inside the little tubes of pasta,
03:53there's some little pools,
03:55but that's exactly how you want the sauce to be.
04:00Mm, that's delicious.
04:02I'm gonna put a ring on my own finger.
04:04It's so sweet.
04:05It's savory from the heavy cream.
04:07The sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil
04:09makes it, gives you that umami bite.
04:12The red pepper gets me in the back of the throat.
04:15Just that nice little spicy hit.
04:18If you like Penne al Vodka,
04:19this is kind of similar to that.
04:21It's just a shorter way of making it.
04:22It emulates a lot of the similar flavors.
04:25I would recommend this for a weeknight meal.
04:28I would recommend this for a dinner party,
04:31and I would recommend this
04:33when you wanna cook for that hot date of yours,
04:35trying to get a ring on that finger.
04:37This is such a comforting dish
04:39that if you want more cozy recipes just like this one,
04:42you should stick around here at Delish.com.
04:44That was a fantastic meal.
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