Name: Brown Butter and Pine Nut Sauce
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup pine nuts; 1/4 pound butter; 1/2 teaspoon table salt; 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley leaves; grated Parmesan cheese

Why This Recipe Works

We wanted a fresh pasta recipe that could be used to create a variety of filled pasta shapes or used to make noodles for simple sauces. We found that the food processor kneaded our simple dough, made with just flour and eggs, almost to perfection. Kneading the dough by hand for an additional minute or two made our pasta dough silky and smooth. Running the dough, in pieces, through a manual pasta machine until it was translucent gave us the delicate egg pasta recipe we were after.

Instructions

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Toast nuts on a small baking sheet until golden, about 5 minutes; set aside.

Melt butter in a medium skillet; cook over medium heat, swirling pan, until butter turns golden brown, about 5 minutes. Stir in reserved nuts, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and parsley. Toss with pasta and serve with grated Parmesan cheese.