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Start the water before anything else; it's the slowest step.
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Garlic goes into cold oil and heats with it, so it softens instead of burning.
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Save a cup of pasta water: it turns the oil into a sauce.
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Finish with lemon zest off the heat, not juice, to keep it bright.
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- Ten-minute dinner, and the trick is the order you do it in.
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- Water on first. It's the slowest thing in the whole recipe.
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- While that heats, slice the garlic thin.
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- Into cold oil, then turn the heat on…
Why cold oil for the garlic?
So the garlic heats up with the oil and softens instead of burning.0:16