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Food Network Kitchen | 2025-10-23
Description
This easy pasta blends Vietnamese, Italian and American ingredients to create a umami-packed sauce that's buttery, a little cheesy and wonderfully savory and garlicky. It's inspired by the iconic garlic noodles created by Chef Helene An at Thanh Long in San Francisco. To shake things up a bit, we lightly brown some of the butter in the sauce to give it nutty notes and top the dish with a sprinkle of store-bought crispy fried garlic or shallots for crunch (find them at Asian grocery stores). And while thick wheat noodles are used in the original version, we use dried spaghetti in ours — this pantry staple soaks up the indulgent sauce beautifully, but you can also switch out the spaghetti for fresh Asian-style noodles if you prefer.
