Pasta Al Limone

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    25mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    4
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    266
based on 19 ratings

A popular dish in Southern Italy where lemons grow in abundance, this recipe is incredibly simple yet full of bright, zesty flavour. Saving the starchy pasta water to emulsify the sauce is Italy’s secret to creamy, silky sauces that don’t use any cream at all!

recipe updated Mar 31, 2025

Ingredients

  • Water icon
    Water
    4 kg
  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    1
  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    ½
  • Parmesan cheese icon
    Parmesan cheese
    60 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    1 ¼ teaspoons
  • Spaghetti icon
    Spaghetti
    360 g
  • Butter icon
    Butter
    2 tablespoons
  • Black pepper icon
    Black pepper
    ½ teaspoon

Tools

  • kCook icon Cooking Chef XL
  • kCook icon Cooking chef xl bowl
  • kCook icon Colander

Step preview

  1. Attach the Stir Tool
  2. Add water and salt to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  3. Lift the Cooking Chef head and fit the heat shield
  4. Heat with splashguard fitted until boiling - 4 min, 130°C, Speed OFF
  5. Then add spaghetti to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  6. Cook with splashguard fitted until softened - 9 min, 120°C, Stir 4
  7. Drain pasta into colander
  8. Clean Cooking Chef bowl
  9. Attach the Stir Tool
  10. Add butter and lemon to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  11. Cook with splashguard fitted - 2 min, 110°C, Stir 2
  12. Add 250 ml of pasta cooking liquid into the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  13. Add lemon to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  14. Cook with splashguard fitted - 2 min, 102°C, Stir 1
  15. Transfer pasta to Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  16. Toss pasta in liquid
  17. Season with salt and black pepper
  18. Cook with splashguard fitted until combined - 1 min, 100°C, Speed 1
  19. Then add parmesan cheese to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  20. Stir with splashguard fitted until combined - 2 min, Speed 1
  21. Toss pasta with tongs in bowl to coat in sauce
  22. Serve
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