Trending Pasta

Time :35

Yield :2 servings

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Everyone, stop what you're doing! You've got to taste this Trending Pasta! All the rage on the interweb, these spinach-turned-noodles doused in a garlic-butter sauce is basically going viral... at least it is in our kitchen. Just one taste and you'll see why we like it so much. Quick, unique, and fun, Trending Pasta is worth a flavorful follow!

Ingredients

For the spinach pasta:

1 (5-ounce) container baby spinach
1 cup flour plus more, to taste, for dusting a work surface
1/3 cup olive oil

For the garlic-butter sauce:

3 tablespoons butter
4 cloves garlic minced
salt to taste
pepper to taste
red pepper flakes to taste
parmesan cheese to taste, grated, for serving

Directions

In a food processor or blender, add the spinach and 1 cup of the flour and pulse until the spinach is broken down.
Slowly pour the olive oil into the spinach flour mixture, while pulsing, until a dough forms and it is sticking together.
Use the extra flour to dust a work surface.
Transfer the dough to the prepared work surface.
Pull off gumball-sized pieces from the dough and use your hands to roll each of them into spaghetti-shaped noodles.
In a large pot of salted, boiling water, add the spinach noodles and cook until they float to the top of the pot, about 1 minute 30 seconds.
Reserve 1/2 cup of the water from the pot and drain the rest. Keep the spinach noodles warm.
In a skillet over medium heat, melt the butter.
Add the garlic to the melted butter and cook until it is fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add the reserved water, 1/4 cup at a time, to the garlic-butter mixture and cook, stirring occasionally, until it is warm and combined.
Season the garlic-butter sauce with the salt, the pepper, and the red pepper flakes and stir to combine.
Add the cooked spinach noodles to the garlic-butter sauce and stir to coat.
Serve the spinach noodles sprinkled with the parmesan.