Brown Butter Balsamic Sauce

The recipe for this simple, delicious sauce is from Heidi Swanson’s blog www.101cookbooks.com.  She debuted it here, topping tortelli and arugula. 

  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoons aged balsamic vinegar
  • fine grain sea salt
  • grated zest of one lemon

Place the butter in a skillet or saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the butter has browned and is very fragrant and nutty smelling. Remove from heat, and let it cool for a minute. Whisk in the vinegar, a couple pinches of salt, and most of the lemon zest.  Toss with pasta.  Place the remaining lemon zest on top of the pasta.