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This butter is very handy to make a quick and delicious pasta when you don't have time to fuss over elaborated recipes. If you make your own butter with Tmx, you use it, of course, otherwise you can use the bought one as well. The result will be equally nice.
Ingredients:
500 gr. butter
10 garlic cloves
70 gr. of basil leaves
70 gr. of pine nuts
100 gr. Parmesan cheese
2 teaspoons of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black pepper
Put in the tmx bowl first the Parmesan cheese: grate at speed 8 for 10/15 sec. and then put it aside. Drop the basil leaves, the pine nuts, the garlic cloves, the salt and the black pepper and mix 20 sec. speed 7. Put the grated parmesan cheese back in the bowl together with the soft butter cut in chunks and mix 1 minute speed 3. Taste it to verify the salt and then put the butter you have obtained in ice cube trays and freeze. When you need to make a quick pasta, you just have to take out of the freezer a cube of butter pesto and while you cook the pasta the butter will be ready. You mix pasta and butter and the trick is done! Pasta with the wonderful pesto aroma....
You can use this butter on grilled meat or spread on hot bread or to season steamed vegetables and it's wonderful on baked potatoes..
Of course you can change the quantity of garlic or salt or Parmesan cheese as you like
For a simple garlic butter, I have another recipe:
200 gr. soft butter , 1/2 liter of water, 100 gr. of garlic, white pepper and salt
put in the tmx bowl water, salt and garlic without the germ: 10 minutes, 100' speed 1. Throw away the water, insert the butterfly and mix the garlic for 1 minute at speed 3 until you will obtain a cream. Add the soft butter and salt and pepper as you like: another minute speed 3. Again, you can keep it in the fridge or you can use the ice cubes tray system. This butter is much stronger than the previous but how nice it is...... I use it on meats or with sauces like béchamel or cheese sauce to give them a different taste.
