Italian lemon pasta (pasta al limone)

Total: 30 min. | Active: 30 min.
vegetarian

Ingredients

for 4 people

Pasta
500 g pasta (e.g. pici)
  salted water, boiling
Sauce
1 ¼ dl full cream
50 g butter
organic lemons, grated zest and the juice
½ tsp salt
a little  pepper

How it's done

Pasta

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

Sauce

Place the reserved cooking water, cream, butter, lemon zest and juice (approx. 150 ml) in the same pan, bring to the boil. Turn down the heat and reduce for approx. 5 mins. Add the pasta, mix, simmer for approx. 2 mins., season.

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