Orange Habanero Pasta is light, healthy and flavorful with a mild tang. Its vibrant color will definitely make you fall in love with it immediately.
If you remember my struggle and experience of working with habanero pepper in my previous posts, I finally conquered. I am now a pro habanero peppers. HAHAHAH!
It is nearly impossible for me to get over its vibrant color and when I blended these beautiful peppers with fresh oranges the color just took me by surprise.
With mild seasoning orange habanero sauce was outstanding and lip-smacking. Of course, I never stopped licking the sauce until I tossed it with pasta.
I have to mention this that I made two batches of orange habanero sauce. I finished it up all even before I could click images.
This Orange Habanero Pasta is full of Vitamin C which will help in your immunity through the spring season which is approaching soon.
Orange habanero sauce is versatile enough to be used in salads or spiralized pasta.
For this recipe, I used quinoa pasta and the combination was excellent. Orange Habanero Pasta is a simple yet filling meal that’s super easy to cook even on busy weeknights.
Make your dinners easy by blending the sauce ahead of time and refrigerate. This pasta recipe is elegant and the prettiest dinner.
It serves well for special occasions and makes your week night meals look exceptional in just 20 minutes.
My other popular dinner recipes are:
Spicy Cashew Broccoli Stir Fry
Habanero Parsley Tofu Curry Casserole
So, if you are planning Valentines Day special dinner then this dish is a must!
If you get a chance to make this recipe then please leave your feedback in the comments below along with the ratings. In addition, you may tag @kiipfit on Instagram with a photo of your cooked food.
Orange Habanero Pasta
Ingredients
For the sauce
- 2 cups peeled oranges
- 1 whole habanero pepper (stemmed and deseeded)
- 1 tsp dried garlic
- 1 tbsp vinegar
For the pasta
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh oregano
- 3/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Pinch of sugar
- Pinch of crushed black pepper
- 2 cups cooked pasta
Instructions
- In a blender combine the ingredients of the sauce and blend extremely smooth. (Strain if desired).
- Heat olive oil in nonstick pan and add oregano. Immediately add onions and saute for couple of minutes or until the onions are translucent.
- Add green bell pepper and saute for a minute.
- Pour the orange habanero sauce and water. Stir nicely
- Immediately add salt, sugar and crushed black pepper.
- Stir and let it cook uncovered for few seconds.
- At the first boil, fold in pasta and toss very well.
- Cook again for a minutes. Turn off the flame and serve immediately.
Notes
- Habanero pepper is extremely hot so even if cooking for more people make sure to use the pepper sparingly. Start with 1 pepper and increase as per requirement. If you don’t eat spicy food then deseed the pepper and start with half of habanero pepper.
- I used quinoa pasta but feel free to use any pasta of your choice. Macaroni pasta also tastes good in this recipe.
- Dried oregano can also use to substitute fresh oregano.
- This recipe tastes best when served immediately. However, the sauce can be made ahead of time and refrigerated in a glass container for about 2 weeks.Â
Nutrition
Stacy says
I just found this recipe through Pinterest and it looks so interesting, I really want to try it but am afraid of it being too spicy for me — do you think it would work if I use jalapeno instead of the habanero?
Gunjan says
Hi Stacey, thank you for visiting my blog and showing interest in this pasta recipe. I am happy that you want to try it and I promise you will love the different flavors infused in this recipe. If you use jalapeno peppers you might lose on the beautiful orange color and it might taste a bit earthy. With that said, I would recommend, wear hand gloves and first of all make a slit in 1 small habanero pepper and remove all the seeds diligently. Then, in order to customize the spice level for yourself just use half the pepper keeping rest of the ingredients in the measurements. Once you blend the sauce and before tossing pasta in it, you can taste test and see if it fits your taste. If you think you can handle a bit more heat then add the whole pepper and blend again or else just half habanero pepper should work as well. Lastly, make sure to adjust salt as per your taste. Hope this helps and you enjoy this pasta dish 🙂
Stacy says
Thank you! I will give it a try next week with the habanero 🙂
Cat says
What a great recipe! Definitely going to have to try this–thanks!
Stephanie Bills says
These look seriously delicious!! I can’t wait to give this recipe a try!!
Willow says
I love the sound of this combination, probably because I love spicy and sweet together! I don’t think I have had a habanero pepper, but since I love spice, I will have to try one!
Gunjan says
I love sweet and spicy too. I hope you enjoy this recipe if you get a chance to try it.
Vicki @ Babies to Bookworms says
Yum! This sounds so delicious and the colors are so pretty!
Ashleigh says
Wow, this pasta recipe looks amazing! I I love trying new recipes, thank you for sharing! I can’t wait to try it!
Monique Jacques says
Yum! The dish looks amazing plus is super quick to make. Win-Win in my book!
Chrissa - Physical Kitchness says
My husband would LOVE this and oranges are soooo in season. We have lots of friends with orange trees so we get them by the bucket-load. Can’t wait to try!
Maggie Unzueta says
I love spicy food. Yum!
Gunjan says
Me too. Hahahah!
Laina Turner says
This sounds absolutely yummy. Thanks, will definitely try this out.
Rachel @ Kitchen Cents says
Holy yummy and HOT! This dish looks beautiful and spicy.
~Rachel @ http://kitchencents.com
candy says
We grow our own hot peppers so fresh is always important. The pasta I can make as well so will be using your recipe to make for a evening meal.
Gunjan says
That’s super awesome Candy. I hope you love this recipe as much as we did.
Ayana Pitterson says
Pasta dish under 20mins, you are my hero. This might be dinner tonight as it looks so great. I will have to add some diced chicken however, as hubby will crave meat. Thanks for sharing. This looks great.
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Gunjan says
Thank you Ayana. Let me know how it turned out for you. 🙂