Posted by: Richard in Food
I’m on a bit of a roll at the moment when it comes to cooking. I’ve pulled off a couple of decent meals over the last couple of days. Here’s a very simple, and very easy recipe I came up with after thinking about the ingredients I had in the fridge (not much, plus mushrooms): Pasta with Mushroom sauce.
In a nutshell, it’s mushroom sauce on Pasta. Beats just plain tomato sauce based dishes, at least in terms of something different with the pasta. And very zingy with the mushroom flavour.
Ingredients:
A good number of mushrooms per person. I know that’s vague, but you want lots of mushrooms, probably more than you expect.
A knob of butter
A bit of Olive Oil
Some Vegetable Stock (I used half a teaspoon of a Vegetable Bouillon powder)
Some plain flour
A small cup of White wine
Pasta (I used spinach and recotta from Sainsbury’s)
Method:
Clean and slice mushrooms. Drop them into a large pan with the oil, and sweat for a couple of minutes. Drop in a little water, the white wine and vegetable stock/bouillon. Steam for about 10-15 minutes until the mushrooms have sweated out and produced a nice mushroom liquid. The more liquid added, the more liquid out.
Melt the butter and/or oil in a smaller pan
Add flour to absorb the butter/oil
Gradually add in the liquid from the mushrooms, stirring after each addition to return to a paste. Continue doing this until a nice creamy constituency has resulted. Use some of the wine here too.
You might want to blitz some of the cooked mushrooms in a liquidiser, and add to the sauce.
Add pepper and salt to taste.
Pop the pasta into boiling water and leave to cook (2-3 mins for fresh pasta, 8-10 mins for dried)
Add the remaining mushrooms from the large pan into the sauce. Simmer gently, stirring frequently, for as long as the pasta takes.
Strain the Pasta, and pour the sauce.
Serve!
An alternative might be to include some cream or milk into the sauce, to give a bit more richness.
Be warned, it’s very filling, and very mushroomy!
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