Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon basil & garlic pasta. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lemon Basil & Garlic Pasta is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Lemon Basil & Garlic Pasta is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon basil & garlic pasta using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Basil & Garlic Pasta:
- Take 2 boxes penne pasta 12 or 16 oz each
- Prepare 3-4 lemons, zested and juiced to 1/2 cup
- Prepare 6 garlic cloves, minced
- Get 2 cups packed basil, cut into ribbons
- Prepare 6 Tbsp butter, divided
- Prepare 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1 tsp crushed red peppers flakes
- Make ready 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Make ready Salt & pepper
Instructions to make Lemon Basil & Garlic Pasta:
- Bring large pot of salted water to boil to cook the pasta. Cook pasta according to directions. Save 1 cup of pasta water before draining pasta.
- While pasta cooking, zest the lemons and juice them. You need 1/2 cup of juice. Mince garlic and cut the basil into eibboma.
- In a large skillet with sides, heat on medium high and add 4 Tbsp butter and the olive oil. Add in the zest, juice and 1/2 of the basil and the crushed red pepper flakes. Stir to combine. Turn heat down to medium low until pasta is done.
- Reserve the cup of pasta water. Drain the pasta and add to skillet tossing with the garlic, lemon and basil. Add the last 2 Tbsp butter and the pasta water. Stir to make sauce. Add in the rest of the basil and Parmesan. Tossing to coat all the pasta. Adjust seasoning with the salt and pepper.
- Enjoy! You can add chicken or shrimp for something special.
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