Pasta and butter are two of the most compatible food ingredients you can use in your kitchen. Here are some sure-fire ways to bring together butter and pasta for a delicious and comforting dish. 

It wasn’t too long ago that nobody wanted to cook with butter. Low-fat yoghurt or Velveeta was a more popular choice than butter. 

Now that people have developed a better appreciation for the qualities of butter, we can enjoy the full flavor and creamy texture that butter brings to any dish. 

Many chefs find that they cannot do without butter in their kitchen sink, and we are no exception. Now, butter is an essential ingredient in any pasta dishes. 

Indeed, Northern Italians who are blessed with cool climate and plenty of cattle they use a generous serving of butter in their pasta.

Butter sauces are great. But you can do a lot more with butter. Adding it to a meaty sauce or incorporating it into a ravioli filling makes the dish ultimately more satisfying and creamy as well as balances out flavors. 

Using butter in caramelized onions to accompany your pasta is a great way to turn pasta into a filling and comforting winter dish. Caramelized onions are both savory and sweet in a good way. To make it perfect, use a generous amount of Kerrygold butter.

Here are some of our best pasta-butter combinations for every season:

Butter in Sauces

There is something about butter melting on pasta that brings to life adult comforts and childhood dreams. Butter and parmesan go really well with spaghetti, but they are even better combined with pasta stuffing because they do so much to bring out the delicious flavors of the cheeses, proteins, and vegetables. 

It really doesn’t matter whether you prefer to add it to your pasta water, cook the butter until it is golden, or add some fresh herbs for extra flavor. Butter never disappoints when you use it to dress tortellini, ravioli, as well as agnolotti.

Butter for Finishing Touches

A little butter added to a dish gives it that extra je ne sais quoi that is missing. Turn to butter to give a meat sauce that missing something that makes it that much better in terms of richness and holds it all together. 

After preparing a creamy sauce, turn off the heat and beat in some cold butter to make the soup smooth and velvety.

When you are preparing a tomato sauce, you might find that a little butter keeps it from being too acidic and makes it smoother but not too heavy. 

Even your store-bought sauces could do better with some butter.

Butter as a Flavor Carrier

Herbs have a way of upgrading the basics you have in your panty. From roasted garlic, chiles, parmesan, fresh herbs, steak, toast, and pretty much anything else. Even truffles. Butter has a way of making the things you love even better. 

Butter for Pasta Filling

Once you get a taste of pasta filling with butter, you won’t want to have it any other way. Adding plenty of brown butter to your squash, cheese, meat, or sweet corn pasta filling makes it that much more creamy and irresistible.