# Creamy Garlic Lemon Pasta

Creamy garlic lemon pasta is full of fresh flavour and is the perfect meal for those days or nights when you’re stuck with what to make.

- Servings: 3 servings
- Total time: 15 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 400 g spaghetti
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1.5 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 whole lemon, zest thinly sliced
- 0.5 lemon, juiced
- 1 Cup thickened cream
- 10 g curley or flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
- To Taste seasoning

## Instructions

1. Place a large pot of water over a high heat.
2. Prepare all the ingredients.
3. Place a large pan over a medium high heat and add olive oil and unsalted butter.
4. Add garlic and a pinch of salt flakes and fry it for a minute, without browning it too much.
5. Add thin sliced lemon zest, lemon juice and cook for a minute.
6. Add thickened cream, season to taste with cracked black pepper and mix well.
7. Bring this to a light boil, reduce heat to low, simmer and slightly reduce.
8. Add pasta straight from the pot with water into the sauce.Starch within pasta water will help the sauce stick to the pasta.
9. Add roughly chopped curley or flat leaf parsley and fold everything together.
10. Cook for one final minute, remove it from the stove top, serve it and garnish with the lemon zest, parsley and fresh parmesan cheese.

## Tips

- This recipe is strong on lemon so adjust it to your taste
- The first time I made it, I put way too much lemon juice in (I used 1 whole lemon) and it ruined the dish. I've now reduced it to half and I think it's the perfect balance.
- If you’re concerned, you can add the zest and cream and squeeze 1 quarter of a lemon into the sauce and adjust that way. Half a lemon works well though, so don’t worry.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/i84Sc5uvQa8?si=oThrGeKVKTJBxhBs
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/fe1afe2e-b6b7-4710-9415-15190a669821
- Extracted: 2025-05-06

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