Brown butter rice with pasta and lemon

Ingredients

• 80g unsalted butter
• 100g mafalda corta (or orzo or vermicelli) pasta
• 1 onion, finely chopped (150g)
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 lemon, zest thinly shaved to get 4 strips, wedges to serve
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 200g basmati rice, rinsed and drained
• 1–2 preserved lemons, seeds removed, finely chopped (30g)
• 600ml boiling water
• Fine sea salt and black pepper