Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Super Easy and Delicious Browned Butter & Mizithra Pasta

We had this at Spaghetti Factory awhile back and Brandon & I both really liked it.  It's so easy and really good - what wouldn't be good with that much butter & cheese?  We found this copy cat recipe on All Recipes but it tastes exactly the same.


1lb spaghetti noodles
1cup butter (I think we did less butter, it really doesn't need that much to still taste good)
3/4 lb Mizithra cheese (we thought this would be hard to find but it was at Winco & Safeway)

Cook noodles al dente...  While noodles are cooking melt butter over medium heat.  Stir the butter constantly until it turns golden caramel brown.  Watch it closely, it feels like you've been stirring forever then all of a sudden you look down and it's caramel and you don't want to burn it.  Let it sit for 4 minutes then put a paper towel over a bowl big enough to hold the butter and pour the butter over the paper towel - you don't want the butter solids.  Grate the cheese on the finest grater you have and mix everything together.   I hope you like it.  Not exactly a 'healthy' meal but totally worth it :)

I think it would be good with some garlic added, maybe some little chunks of bacon (yeah, we're going for health nut over here :)  )  Next time...

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