Creamy lemon and basil pasta

Total: 20 min. | Active: 20 min.
vegetarian

Ingredients

for 4 person

Linguine
400 g pasta (e.g. Linguine)
  salted water, boiling
Sauce
60 g butter
organic lemons, grated zest and the juice
125 g cream cheese, plain
½ tsp chilli flakes (e.g. Fine Food Chile Chipotle)
  salt and pepper to taste
1 bunch basil, roughly chopped
40 g Parmesan, grated

How it's done

Linguine

Cook the pasta in boiling salted water until just al dente. Set aside 100 ml of the cooking water, drain the pasta.

Sauce

Heat the butter in the same pan. Add the lemon zest, cook briefly. Add the lemon juice (approx. 1 ½ dl), cream cheese and reserved cooking water, mix, season. Add the pasta, heat gently. Mix in the basil, serve with cheese.

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