Brown Butter Spaghetti With Greek (mizithra) Cheese

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup grated mizithra cheese
• 8 ounces spaghetti
• 4 tablespoons butter (do not substitute margarine, or to taste)
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic (optional)
• 2 teaspoons oregano (optional)
• fresh ground black pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 cook spaghetti until al dente.
• 2 drain spaghetti and leave in colander or drainer.
• 3 put butter (and garlic and oregano, if using) into hot pan and put it back on the burner, making sure heat is medium to medium-high.
• 4 stirring constantly, cook butter until it's a nice, light to medium brown.
• 5 remove pan from heat.
• 6 quickly return spaghetti to pan, turning to coat the strands with the butter; the spaghetti should glisten with the light coating of butter.
• 7 at this point, you can add a bit more butter if you like.
• 8 once butter coats spaghetti, add cheese and mix well, so that bits of the mizithra are sticking to the spaghetti evenly.
• 9 grind a bit of pepper over the dish and mix again.
• 10 serve with extra mizithra and pepper.