Pasta With Yogurt Sauce

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 (16 ounce) package pasta
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 cups plain yogurt
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• 3 tablespoons pine nuts (optional)
• 2 tablespoons butter (optional)

Recipe

• cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente.
• using a mortar and pestle, mash the salt and garlic cloves together into a paste. warm the yogurt slightly in a sauce pan. remove a small amount of warmed yogurt from the pan, and stir together with the garlic paste. stir this mixture into the remaining yogurt
• drain the pasta, and rinse in cold water. place in a casserole or deep serving dish, toss with 1 tablespoon butter or margarine. toss with half of the garlic-yogurt sauce. spread the remaining sauce over the pasta. garnish with the parsley.
• for a very special dish, brown the pine nuts in 2 tablespoons butter or margarine. pour over the parsley. serve immediately.