Easy Gigi Hadid Pasta
A creamy and cheesy meal with a little spice, Gigi Hadid Pasta is one of our favorite pasta dinner recipes and it combines orecchiette with a mouth-watering vodka sauce.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
For the Pasta
- 8 oz shells pasta
- water
- salt
Gigi Hadid Pasta Sauce
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 shallot minced
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes plus more for serving
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon vodka you can omit this ingredient
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese plus more for serving
For Serving
- chopped basil
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add a pinch of salt. Add pasta and cook until al dente.
- Strain the pasta while reserving 1/2 cup of the pasta water.
- While your pasta is cooking, you can make the sauce. In a large skillet over medium heat, add oil, garlic, and shallot. Cook until fragrant.
- Add red pepper flakes and tomato paste. Cook for about 2 minutes.
- Add heavy cream, vodka sauce, salt, and pepper. Lower the heat and simmer for about 10-15 minutes.
- Add butter to the sauce and let it melt. Combine the butter with the sauce.
- Add the pasta and the reserved pasta water to the skillet.
- Add Parmesan cheese, and cook on medium heat until the sauce has thickened.
- Remove from heat. Sprinkle with chopped basil, more parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes. Serve warm and enjoy!
Notes
- To Make Gigi Hadid Pasta without Vodka: simply omit the vodka and follow the rest of the instructions.
- If you don’t want to use heavy cream, you can use regular milk. Note that your pasta won’t be as creamy.
- Make sure to cook your pasta until al dente, as you’ll cook it more with the sauce.
- Skip the red pepper flakes for a non-spicy Gigi Hadid pasta.
- Gigi Hadid used shell pasta in the original recipe, but you can use any type you like such as penne or macaroni.
- If you’d like to make it vegan, use soy milk instead of heavy cream. You’ll also need to use vegan butter.