Number Eighteen: Spaghetti with Marmite

I decided to cook pasta for tea tonight, as tomorrow me and my dad are doing a half marathon!!! (A walking half marathon mind, but still, it's pretty tiring. Honest!) So I thought pasta would be good energy food for the night before.

I've been looking at this recipe in Kitchen for a while but never actually got round to making it until now, and I'm glad I did - it's ridiculously easy and tastes SO GOOD! You wouldn't expect it but it really does!

The quantities below are for 4 - 6 kids, but if it's for adults go for 300g pasta for 3 people, with the same amount of sauce; 400g for 4 and increase the sauce a bit, and so on and so forth.


Ingredients

375g dried spaghetti
50g unsalted butter
1 tsp marmite, or more to taste (I used about 1.5)
freshly grated parmesan cheese to serve (If my parents are involved, A LOT of parmesan will be required)


Method

1. Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water according to pack instructions.

2. When nearly cooked, melt the butter in a small saucepan, and add the marmite and about a tablespoon of pasta water.

3. Drain the pasta, reserving about half a cup of pasta water.

4. Return to the pan and pour over the marmite sauce, adding some of the reserved pasta water if necessary to loosen it up a bit.

5. Mix well, then serve with plenty of parmesan.

Fabulous! You can use vegemite too - Nigella says this works just as well.

Thanks for reading!!