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Lemon Butter Pasta

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Lemon Butter Pasta

Simple, perfect lemon butter pasta, built from just six ingredients and ready in twelve minutes. Tossing the pasta with butter and a splash of starchy pasta water off the heat is what emulsifies the sauce into something glossy and clinging, rather than a pool of melted butter.

Total time
15 min
Prep
3 min
Cook
12 min
Difficulty
easy
Cuisine
American
comfort

Ingredients

400gspaghetti or linguine
6 tbspbutter
zest and juice of 2 lemons
1 cupparmesan, grated
½ tspchilli flakes
fresh parsley
saltto taste
pasta wateras needed

Instructions

1

Cook pasta al dente; reserve pasta water.

2

Melt butter; add lemon and chilli.

3

Toss pasta with butter, parmesan, and pasta water.

4

Garnish with parsley and extra lemon.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories
410
Protein
22.7g
Fat
34.5g
Carbs
2.8g
Fiber
0.2g
Sodium
907mg

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