Butter Lemon Pasta
- Super simple
- 0:15 m
- 6 ingredients
When life gives you lemons, make this lemon butter pasta dish. It's a game changer. Super quick, super easy and tastes so good you'll catch peelings!
Serves: 4
Ingredients
For the recipe
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 tbsp capers
- 200g spaghetti good quality
- 2 tbsp plant-based butter good quality
- 2 clove garlic cloves
- Salt & pepper to taste
Before you start
Big pan boiling water | Cheese grater | Frying pan | Tongs
Step 1
Cook the pasta
- Add the pasta and a big pinch of salt to the pan of boiling water and cook according to the package instructions
Ingredients
- 200g spaghetti good quality
Step 2
Prepare the ingredients
- Peel and finely slice the garlic
- Roughly chop the capers
- Zest and halve the lemon
- Pick the parsley and finely slice the leaves
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp capers
- 2 clove garlic cloves
Step 3
Prepare the sauce
- When the pasta is 3 minutes away from the being cooked through, warm the butter and oil in the pan over medium heat
- Add the garlic and capers to the pan and stir for 2 minutes, making sure the garlic doesn't burn
- Add the lemon zest to the pan and stir to combine
- Use to tongs to carefully transfer the pasta to the frying pan
- Squeeze the lemon juice over the pasta, catching any pips in your free hand, sprinkle the parsley (reserving a little for garnish), a generous amount of pepper and a little salt over the pasta and fold to combine
- Twist the the pasta into bowls, garnish with parsley, pepper and salt and serve immediately
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp plant-based butter good quality
- Salt & pepper to taste
- 1 large lemon