{"id":29511,"date":"2025-03-10T00:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamafoodblog.com\/?p=29511"},"modified":"2025-03-09T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:42:28","slug":"grown-up-buttered-noodles-garlicky-brown-butter-parmesan-noodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamafoodblog.com\/grown-up-buttered-noodles-garlicky-brown-butter-parmesan-noodles\/","title":{"rendered":"Grown Up Buttered Noodles: Garlicky Brown Butter Parmesan Noodles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grown up buttered noodles are here to save the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have a go-to nostalgic kid food? That food that you\u2019d always eat even after a serious food strike? The one your parents would give into just so they were sure you didn\u2019t die from lack of calories, forget about nutrition? For me it was plain white rice. No soy sauce, no seasoning, no anything but delicious plain white rice.<\/p>\n

For my childhood best friend, it was buttered noodles. Whenever we\u2019d have a play date, that\u2019s what her mom would make us because it was literally the only thing she would eat. After my very first bowl, I was hooked. What\u2019s not to love about a bowl of buttery carbs, made with love?<\/p>\n

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How to make buttered noodles<\/h2>\n
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  1. Cook your pasta<\/strong> in a large pot of salted boiling water a couple minutes less than the time state on the package. We\u2019re going to finish cooking the pasta in the sauce so that the noodles soak up even more flavor.<\/li>\n
  2. Make the sauce.<\/strong> While the pasta is cooking, brown the butter with the garlic until the butter foams and turns golden brown. The garlic will be toasty too. To make the sauce extra silky, add 1\/2 cup of the boiling pasta water and bring to a boil to emulsify everything together.<\/li>\n
  3. Add the pasta.<\/strong> When the pasta is done, use a pair of tongs to move the pasta from the pot to the pan with the brown butter sauce. You don\u2019t need to drain the noodles or dirty a colander.<\/li>\n
  4. Toss, toss, toss.<\/strong> Toss everything together and turn up the heat to reduce the sauce until it is thick and glossy.<\/li>\n
  5. Make it rain.<\/strong> When the sauce is glossy, remove the pan from the heat and make it rain parmesan. Mix it all up so that cheese melts and enjoy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Buttered noodles, slightly grown up<\/h2>\n

    This is a little updated version of those buttered noodles, made just a touch more grown up with nutty toasty browned butter, garlic, and a generous amount of parm. They\u2019re super comforting and so easy to make. Mike said it was the best bowl of noodles I\u2019ve ever made<\/a> and you better believe that it\u2019s going in our weekly rotation now that fall weather is here to stay. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s cozier that cuddling up on the couch with warm bowls of buttered noodles.<\/p>\n

    Best butter<\/h2>\n

    It’s not amazing right now to talk about expensive ingredients, but if it works for your budget, you need to try grass fed butter like Kerrygold<\/a>, Maple Hill<\/a>, or best of all, Smjor<\/a>, if you can get it. I tried Smjor on our very first trip to Iceland almost 10 years ago and I’ve never forgotten the taste.<\/a> There really is no comparison between generic blocks of butter and artisanal grass fed butter.<\/p>\n

    Garlic butter noodles<\/h2>\n

    If you love buttered noodles, you\u2019re going to love garlic buttered noodles. Everyone knows that butter noodles are delicious but if you want to up your cooking game and make something that you crave again and again, garlic butter noodles is where it\u2019s at. Cooking garlic in butter makes it mellow and irresistible \u2013 your house will fill up with ALL the delicious smells. These garlic butter noodles are doubly good because the butter is browned for an extra layer of nutty toasty flavor. Showering everything with a generous amount of parm is never a bad finish.<\/p>\n

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    How do you make butter noodles better?<\/h2>\n