Butter corn pasta
Easy to make pasta without any pasta sauce
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 1 cup pasta I used penne
- 1 tbsp butter
- 3 tsp Olive oil
- 2 tbsp finely chopped garlic
- 1 tbsp spring onion whites you can use normal onion too
- ½ tsp pepper
- ¼ cup sweet corn kernels
- ¼ cup pasta cooked water
- 1 tsp red chili flakes
- ¼ cup grated cheese
- Few spring onion greens
- 1 tsp lime juice
Instructions
- Pressure cook the corn.
- Place a wide bowl on a damp cloth.
- Inside the bowl, fold a tissue and keep it.
- Place the corn and cut the kernels. This is an easy way to take out the corn kernels.
- You can use frozen corn too.
- In a pan add water and add salt and 1 tsp olive oil.
- When it starts boiling add the pasta.
- Let this boil till it cooks al dente
- Reserve ¼ cup water and drain the excess water.
- In a pan add butter and 2 tsp olive oil.
- Add the chopped garlic and chopped spring onion whites.
- Saute till the garlic turns slightly golden color.
- Now add in the sweet corn kernels.
- Saute this for 2 minutes and add little salt.
- Now add the pepper powder and red chili flakes.
- Mix well and add the reserved pasta water.
- Mix well and let this cook for a minute.
- Now add in the cooked pasta.
- Now add the spring onion greens and lemon juice. You can also add few basil leaves too instead of spring onion greens.
- Mix well and add the cheese. You can add parmesan cheese if you use it.
- Mix well.
- Butter corn pasta is ready.
- Serve hot.
Notes
1.Adding Spring onion whites and greens is optional.
2. You can use frozen corn for making this butter corn pasta.
