Spaghetti is the most important dish from the first season of “The Bear”. It’s where everything begins and ends. It’s what the restaurant staff are fed with, and the recipe itself is so simple that it doesn’t require any culinary skills. If you can cut the products and cook the pasta, you can’t mess up ANYTHING here.
“The Bear”. Spaghetti recipe from the series
There are tons of recipes for different spaghetti online. There are also a lot of those that try to recreate the recipe from the series. Meanwhile, in “The Bear,” the chef’s instructions for “family spaghetti” are just three sub-items: lots of garlic, basil in olive oil, and tomatoes. The rest you can add is a matter of your own preferences and culinary imagination.
When Carmy makes spaghetti (THAT spaghetti) in the last episode of the first season, we don’t yet know how it will all end. The barely holding-it-in-your-hands chef gives all the ingredients by eye. What we do know for sure is that his recipe includes a lot, a LOT of garlic, a generous splash of olive oil, a lot of basil, and chili flakes. Add one large onion, some butter, and at least two cans of tomatoes. Be warned, though, because this amount of ingredients will make enough sauce for one small dinner – in the meantime, it’s worth making enough to have for a second helping.
‘The Bear’, Spaghetti Recipe Photo: Disney Plus / still
The basis is at least one head of garlic. Peel the cloves and throw them into a pot where they are already heated. oil. There should be more of it than for regular frying – let the garlic bubble in it for a while on low heat. Add to it chili flakes (as much as you think is appropriate – you can also leave them out altogether, which will make the sauce more delicate but less pronounced) and basil leaves. How much exactly? Fresh basil is sold in small pots in supermarkets – leaves from two bushes will give as much flavor as they should. Be careful, if you leave the stalks, you will either fish them out later or you will have a hard time eating them. I recommend fishing them out, because there is flavor in the stalks, but do whatever suits you best.
Add hot pepper or chili flakes to the ‘pesto’ Photo: private archive
All of this should be stewed for a few minutes or so, until the garlic softens. Set aside to cool and then mash everything with a fork or potato ricer into a fairly smooth mass. Voila, you’ve made fake homemade pesto. Don’t worry, the cheese will be there too.
Carmy tomato sauce starts by frying a halved, peeled tomato. white onion. His is rather one of the larger ones, so if you have smaller ones at home, take two instead of one. Fry in a large pot on Olive with a generous allowance butteruntil nicely browned. Add two cans of tomatoes – they can be blended into a pulp, they can be whole. If you know you need a larger portion of sauce, add an additional can. Leave the tomatoes and onions on a low heat, let them boil. Every now and then you need to stir them so that they don’t stick.
When the sauce has reduced a bit, turn the heat down to minimum and add the pasta. The best is plain Spaghettibut let’s not be purists – make it the way you like it. In the meantime, when the pasta is slowly getting to al dente, add your pesto mass to the sauce and lots and lots of grated parmesan. By this time, the pasta should be ready. Remember, like real chefs, to add a little of the pasta water to the sauce with a soup ladle and mix.
Spaghetti from ‘The Bear’ Photo: private archive
When all the ingredients are ready, you add the pasta to the sauce, mix it up, and there you have it. A perfect dinner that you can modify in a million different ways (I sometimes add pesto from a jar). Simple, ready in an hour, relatively cheap (the most expensive elements are actually fresh basil and parmesan). If you already know that there is way too much sauce for your needs, before you add the pasta, you can transfer some of it to a separate container and freeze it. Yes, boss? Yes, boss!
Spaghetti recipe from ‘The Bear’ Photo: private archive
You can watch the third season of “The Bear” from July 17 on the Disney Plus platform.
Source: Gazeta
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