Photo: Twisted Pasta with Brown Butter and Walnuts Recipe
Ingredients
- About 1/2 cup walnut halves
- 1 pound twisted pasta such as campanelle, caserecci, or cavetelle
- 2 sticks unsalted butter
- 1 small bunch sage leaves, about 10 or 12 leaves, large stems plucked
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Lay walnuts on a baking sheet and bake 7 to 10 minutes, until toasted and fragrant. Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente.
In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Continue to heat and stir the butter until it turns light brown, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the sage leaves. Cook until crisped and the butter has turned a dark shade of brown.
Toss the butter and sage gently with the pasta, being careful not to break the sage leaves up too much. Divide pasta among serving bowls and top with the crushed toasted walnuts.
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By nbondoc
on February 15, 2012
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THANK YOU DAVE FOR THIS VERY SIMPLE AND YET AWESOMELY DELICIOUS RECIPE THAT I PREPARED FOR ONLY 15 MINUTES FOR MY WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY. MY HUBBY GOT SECONDS, THIRDS AND THE FOURTH THAT HE EVEN TOOK WITH HIM AFTER DINNER TO WATCH A TV SHOW :. YOUR RECIPE WILL BE USED OVER AND OVER FOR ETERNITY AND LIKE YOUR COMMENT, "IT'S LIKE HEAVEN"...
By polinawoodget_1...
Washington, 47
on January 03, 2010
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The 2 sticks of butter ruins this recipe. The large amount of butter made the dish too heavy and two sweet, the addition of salt and peppercorns needed to be used as a counteract.
Think this dish would have been more successful with olive oil substituting the butter.
By shannonandjusti...
Paradise, CA
on November 22, 2008
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I read the review before I made this and so I tried it with pine nuts, parmesan and then I crumbled crispy panchetta over the top. It was so good, but next time I will leave out the panchetta (too salty. But as I was eating it I was thinking that it would be excellent with mazithra (a hard goat cheese instead of parm. Also I uped the amount of pasta and kept the butter the same and it was perfect (about 1.5 times the pasta. Anyway, long story short... it was super easy and tasted worderful. No, it was not figure friendly, but moderation is the key (oh and I pregnant so I didn't really care about the extra caloires ENJOY!
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