Orecchiette with Butter, Sage, Garlic and Parmesan

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By David Eyre

Published 2009

  • About

This is exactly the thing to cook after you come home from work; the sauce takes the same time to make as the pasta takes to cook. I think that you must use orecchiette – it is a chewy type of pasta that looks, as the name suggests, like little ears.

Ingredients

  • 75 g/3 oz unsalted butter
  • 450 g/1

Method

Clarify the butter by melting it over the lowest possible heat and then skimming off the bits that float on top. Gently pour the clarified butter into a clean pan, discarding the curds (or is it the wey?) that will have collected at the bottom. Meanwhile, cook the pasata in a large pan of boiling salted water until al dente, then drain.

Heat the butter with the garlic cloves and