Buttered Noodles With Something Behind Them
The safe dinner, made properly instead of apologetically.
⏱ 15 min · easy · 🍽 serves 4
Ingredients
- 1 lb short pasta
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- 1/4 cup pasta water
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper, optional
Steps
- Boil the pasta in well salted water. Save a splash before draining.
- Return it to the warm pot with the butter and toss until every piece is coated.
- Add the parmesan and a little pasta water and toss again until glossy rather than greasy.
- Season with salt. Offer pepper on the side rather than adding it.
👨🍳 Salting the water properly is the whole difference between this and sad noodles. It is a real dinner, not a surrender.
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