Butter and Cream Sauce Pasta
A delicious simple butter and cream sauce to get on your dinner table rotation ASAP.
Servings 2 people
Calories 979kcal
Ingredients
- Pasta or gnocchi of choice enough for 2 people
- 120 g unsalted butter cubed
- 4 - 5 garlic cloves finely diced or crushed
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice
- ⅔ cup cream I used single which is 17%
- ⅓ cup finely grated parmesan
Instructions
- In a large pan melt the butter over medium - high heat. Let it melt and then foam and start to brown very slightly.
- Lower the heat slightly and add the garlic and cook for 15 - 20 seconds, stirring the whole time.
- Lower the heat slightly again and add the cream it will sizzle and bubble but that is good when mixed in with the butter it will start to emulsify straight away.
- Add the black pepper, the salt and the lemon juice and whisk/lightly beat to fully emulsify. A rubber spatula works well here too.
- It should thicken really slightly into a smooth buttercream sauce.
- Let it gently simmer on for 3 - 4 mins on the lowest heat you can.
- If you aren't going to serve immediately you'll want to keep it on an even lower heat, you don't want it to have any bubbles breaking on the surface it will reduce down too much and start to split if cooked for too long.
- Toss your cooked pasta/gnocchi into the sauce and season to taste.
- Serve with lots of extra parmesan, black pepper and whatever else you feel like!
Notes
Play around with the timing of the sauce and pasta. It shouldn't really take the pasta any longer than it takes for the sauce for this one so you can have them both going at the same time. This pasta sauce is really quick which is what I love about it but it means you need to time cooking pasta perfectly.