You can still add salt, pepper, or more chili flakes at the end of the preparation if it needs it. Always taste your pasta once it’s all pulled together to check on the seasoning.
You will add the tablespoon of butter once all the ingredients are combined. Butter makes everything better and in this case, it sure does the trick. So the thicker you want your sauce, the less water you want to cook your pasta in. When cooking your pasta, a few things: The less water you use to cook the pasta, the more starchy it becomes. If you wanted just regular vodka sauce, you could leave out the chili flakes, but we recommend using at least a pinch if you can’t handle all of the spice. The recipe is called Spicy Vodka Pasta and there is 1 teaspoon of chili flakes in the ingredients. This is a creamy sauce that calls for a ½ cup of heavy cream – don’t use half and half as it has a tendency to curdle when mixed with tomatoes in your sauce. If you don’t have vodka, other alcohol can be used in a pinch such as white wine or cooking sherry. You will need just 1 Tablespoon of vodka for this recipe. This recipe requires ¼ of a cup, and so instead of opening a can and having leftover paste, we recommend using the kind that comes in a tube. Tomato paste comes in both a can and a tube.
Sometimes shallots can be hard to come by and if you cannot find them, then yellow or white onions will work in a pinch. The recipe calls for shallots which are a cross between garlic and onion and add great flavor. Just before adding the pasta, add the butter to the sauce.