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Brown Butter Garlic Noodles - the best noodles ever with garlic, brown butter, Parmesan cheese and oyster sauce. This recipe is delicious and takes 20 mins to make!
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.
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!
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 274 calories per serving.
What To Serve With This Recipe
For a wholesome dinner, make the following dishes.
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Brown Butter Garlic Noodles
Ingredients
- 8 oz (230g) 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 a boil. Cook the spaghetti until al dente. Drain and set aside.
- Heat a skillet over medium-high heat and add the melted butter. Cook until the butter starts to foam and turn slightly brown. Add the garlic and stir a few times before adding the noodles and oyster sauce. Stir to mix well.
- Add the Parmesan cheese and stir to combine well with the noodles. Turn off the heat and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
how much water do I need to put in
You mean water for cooking the spaghetti? You can check the packaging information or enough water to cover the spaghetti.
I never used oyster sauce, Is it fishy and or salty?
Not fishy but salty.
Wow! This looks DELISH!
Wondering if this dish can be made in larger quantities to serve about 50 people at a Christmas open house? The recipe reads to serve immediately. Does it hold well in a chafing dish? Thinking I would add seasoned, shrimp. Thank you & Happy Holidays
Hi Jeanie, of course this is perfect for parties. Just make a big batch. This is great when it’s cold. You should totally make it. Yeah, serve it with shrimp, check out all my shrimp recipes: https://rasamalaysia.com/tag/shrimp. Chili Garlic Shrimp or Honey Garlic Shrimp will be awesome. Happy holidays!
What can you substitute the oyster sauce with? My hubby is allergic to oysters and I would like to try this recipe.
There is vegetarian oyster sauce that is made with mushrooms. My son is allergic to shellfish and that is what we use.
Josephine, it’s from Very Well, it’s accurate.
I have to tell that it is not easy to make brown butter (to me). In some case (before I success) I made black and too brown butter and its flavor is not great at all. But after that, I feel it is deserved to spend time for this recipe!
Thanks for this simple & delicious recipe! I’ve made it three times, my hubby said it’s the best version I’ve cooked to date :). I also added some chili flakes for heat.
IMO it tastes better than the garlic noodles from a certain expensive seafood (known for their crabs) restaurant. Overall a real winner. Thanks again!
That’s awesome, so glad you like this brown butter garlic noodles.
I love the simplicity of these tasty noodles!
Yes, thanks. This brown butter garlic noodles are very simple and nice!
wahhhh.. sedap ni.. lapar pulak rasanya ni. hehe
Love all the vegetarian recipes that I can try ????? Thank you ?