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A tumblr post by ifridiot, which says: Nobody's stopping you from taking 4 tablespoons of butter, melting it in a pot, and adding two tablespoons of minced garlic. Nobody's stopping you from letting that garlic saute for like two minutes, or from then adding in two tablespoons of shaved parmesan. And nobody will stop you from stirring half a pound of al dented pasta into that buttery mess, cracking some pepper over it, and feasting on the garlicky spoils gained from such labours. Nobody's stopping you. The cops can't even arrest you for it.

Requires
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp minced garlic or garlic paste
  • Cheeses (at least one, ideally including parmesan)
  • Salt + pepper
  • Cooked pasta (Approx. 1 cup is 1 serving)
Instructions
  1. Cook some pasta
  2. Fry up some minced garlic in butter until golden (does not take long)


  3. Add some Cheeses

  4. Stir in the cooked pasta
Notes
  • It's quite oily. Suggest adding like a tbsp something acidic (vinegary thing or soy sauce perhaps) plus some cream (sour cream does work well for this).
  • Or, it turns out that adding a little bit of the pasta water does help a bit. (Had also used tbsp tomato paste and defrosted spinach in this one.)
  • Fry up some mushrooms in the butter in step 1, THEN add the garlic.
  • Adding about 1 tbsp of tomato or chilli paste is great.
Variants
  • Cook pasta; fry a handful of sliced mushrooms (button or chestnut) in butter till browned; add tbsp garlic paste; add cheeses, cooked pasta, take off heat; add 1 tsp gochujang, 2-3 tbsp sour cream. 👍