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Garlic noodles…just the name alone conjures up buttery, garlicky, flavorful noodles with Parmesan cheese, a popular Asian-flavored noodles found in many restaurants. Now what’s better than garlic noodles? These nutty, intensely aromatic Brown Butter Garlic Noodles.
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I created my famous Garlic Noodles recipe 10 years ago, in 2008. Many of my readers have since tried the recipe and loved it. Today, I am upgrading the recipe with fewer and easy-to-get ingredients, with brown butter.
What Is Brown Butter
Brown butter is basically butter, but “cooked” over high heat until the butter becomes foamy and turn brown in color.
The heat “cooks” the milk contents in the butter so they form the brown bits in the butter, hence turning the butter brown in color.
See the above picture of brown butter (image credit: Serious Eat).
When cooked with brown butter and seasoned with oyster sauce and Parmesan noodles, this simple noodle dish becomes one of the most delicious noodle recipe ever!
You can eat these noodles plain, or with a simple protein dish such as grilled shrimp. Bon appetit!
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 274 calories per serving.
Serve Brown Butter Garlic Noodles With:
For a wholesome dinner, make the following dishes.
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Brown Butter Garlic Noodles
Ingredients
- 8 oz. spaghetti
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 1/2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Bring a pot of water to boil. Cook the spaghetti until al dente. Drained and set aside.
- Heat up a skillet on medium-high heat and add the melted butter. Cook until the butter starts to foam and turn slightly brown. Add the garlic, stir a few times before adding the noodles and oyster sauce. Stir to mix well.
- Add the Parmesan cheese, stir to combine well with the noodles. Turn off the heat and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
What can be substituted for the oyster sauce?
Thank you!
You can use Maggi Sauce.
Dear Rasa
thanks for this yummy recipe.
My brother Caleb and me Alicia loved this recipe
great together amazing!!!
Alicia eide age 10
Thanks.
Talk about comfort food, look no more. I have found what my taste buds were looking for. This noodle dish is one to go to when you need a perfect side dish. It adds taste, beyond delicious! The flavor combinations are incredible. All the dishes Rasa gives, are outstanding and I get many compliments no matter what I serve from her long list of recipes. Thank you Rasa Bee!!!!
NOTE to good cooks: browned butter is the basis for many Southern dishes which call for chopped nuts — but someone in the family is allergic, so you don’t make it anymore. Browned butter somehow – magically?? – adds the flavor of nuts to the recipe.