MM and I have homemade pasta down to a routine, so most of my time is spent finding good sauces to go with it. Easiest is butter and Parmesan. I’ve already written about two others – Bolognese and an easy creamy sauce. But in browsing through SeriousEats.com (I’m not sure if you can tell how much I love that website…), I found a recipe for Pasta al Limone that looked pretty interesting and easy enough for a weeknight.

Go look at at the recipe – I’ll wait!

We got these ingredients ready while the pasta was resting in the fridge. I made MM zest the cheese while I minced the garlic, just so he had some skin in the game. 🙂

Homemade pasta, depending on how thin you roll it, takes around 2 minutes to cook. For this recipe, you’re supposed to cook it even less than al dente, because once it’s gotten that far, it goes in with the butter/lemon/garlic mixture, with a little of the pasta water, and the cheese to cook for another minute.

Here’s the thing – the recipe says it serves 4. Not entirely sure that’s true. We only made 2 servings of really thinly rolled, thin pasta, and it seemed to be exactly the right amount of sauce for just those two servings.

Either that, or I did it wrong.

It needed a bit more salt and pepper to finish it off, along with a touch more lemon juice, but other than that, it was pretty perfect as written. I think we’d definitely do it again, especially since the lemon lightens up the butter and cheese really well! We’ll be doing this again!