Spaghetti con Burro e Aglio

Name: Spaghetti con Burro e Aglio (Spaghetti with butter and garlic)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 8 cloves of garlic, peeled; 4 oz (100 g) butter; 6 tablespoons (6 X 15 ml spoon) finely chopped parsley; 12 oz (350 g) spaghetti or spaghettini; 4 oz (100 g) freshly grated parmesan cheese

Spaghetti with butter and garlic

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pasta Italian Style

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1991

About

So often the simplest recipes are best. Garlic, first blanched to soften the flavour, is heated with butter and parsley to make a quick but quite irresistible pasta dish.

Ingredients

8 cloves of garlic, peeled
4 oz (100 g) butter</

Europe
Italy
Main course
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Pasta

Method

Bring 1 pint (600 ml) water to the boil, throw in the garlic and boil for 5 minutes. Drain and crush the cloves on a wooden board with the back of a knife, or with a mortar and pestle. Scrape the garlic in