A really simple recipe to make pasta in a creamy mushroom sauce with hints of garlic. Perfect comfort food, this recipe is great for novice cooks!
What do you eat when you need to eat something soulful? Resort to chocolates? Well, I rustle up a simple pasta dish and gorge on it like no one’s watching. Making a good pasta dish is not rocket science, a handful of ingredients and you have a plate full of comfort food ready. My Creamy Mushroom Pasta is just that, it’s something I eat all the time. Simple, quick and yes..soul satisfying. <3
This recipe has a LOT of fat..butter, cream, cheese..you name it and this has it, so if you’re on a diet look away now because this sir, is not for you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. P.S. – if you want to really cheat on your cheat day, do it with this recipe. You will thank me!
My creamy mushroom pasta recipe requires very little effort, so make it when you feel like lazying around all day in your PJs! The best part is that it tastes even better the next day..so make some extra and store it! And if you don’t fall in love with this recipe..write to me..I want to know you because I haven’t met a person capable of hating this dish. 😉
- • Dry Pasta, 2 cups (I used fusilli)
- • Olive Oil, 3 tablespoons
- • Butter, 1+1/2 tablespoon
- • Garlic Cloves, 5-6 large, chopped
- • Mushrooms, 8-10 sliced
- • Single Cream, ⅔ cup or 160 ml ( I used D'lecta Creme 25%; available at Nature's Basket)
- • Grated Cheddar Cheese, ⅓ cup
- • Salt, pepper, dried oregano, as per taste
- In a large pan, boil water with some salt. Once it reaches a roaring boil, throw in the dry pasta and cook until the pasta is done. Sieve it and set the pasta aside to be used later. Save some pasta water for the sauce.
- In another pan, heat olive oil and butter and toss in the chopped garlic. Fry the garlic on medium flame until fragrant and golden in color. Add in the sliced mushrooms. Make sure you take a large pan otherwise the mushrooms will be too crowded and won't cook well.
- Cook mushrooms until golden with slightly brown edges. Add in the cream and grated cheese along with the seasonings. Cook on low flame until the cheese melts, add in a little pasta water that you reserved to thin down the sauce if required.
- Mix the pasta in this sauce and cook for a couple of minutes until properly mixed.
- Serve hot with some garlic bread (or not).
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Nothing like a big bowl of creamy pasta to comfort you. My kinda dish any day!
Thank you Anjana!
Creamy Pasta is my choice any day….. Now to try this on a cheat day. I am quailing at all that cream and cheese!
My favourite kind of pasta! I usually make it with milk and thicken it up with a bit of flour on days when I’m feeling guilty but hungry 😛
Hi Gayatri! I used to do that too buy single cream works wonders 🙂 Try it sometime!!
Yup, made it that way too and with a splash of white wine 😀 In case you’re a fan of spiked pasta 🙂
Who isn’t ?! 😀
Hi radhika! This looks super yummy. The prefect comfort food!
Can you use milk instead of the single cream?
Hi Kalani! Thank you so much! You could but then you’ll have to change the recipe entirely. If you’re keen on using milk, add butter and a tbsp of flour to the pan on medium flame. Once the flour turns slightly pale add in a cup of milk and cheese. Season it and add pasta. 🙂 Let me know what you think!
Will do. Thanks so much 🙂
I make mushroom pasta all the time and it never occurred to me to add a splash of cream, but I will now!
Hi Sarah! I feel the same way about a few recipes..simple things make a lot of difference don’t they? 🙂 The cream definitely takes this pasta dish to another level. Let me know when you give it a shot. I’d love to hear your views. 🙂
Hi Radhika !
I must say your Blog, your recipes and your tips are truly truly amazing. I love all that you make and yes you have outlined urself with the snaps and trust me on this one – i just had my dinner and fed myself up my throat but i am hungry again. All that is just SO mouthwatering.
I just have few suggestions.. Firstly i don’t have an oven.. Microwave yes ( which is lying perfectly idle ) so i wish you had more of no bake recipes. You see we students don’t think abt buying ovens wherever we go.. we just love having some real food and ur recipes are just that..minus the baking.
Secondly, how abt you also try some ethnic indian dishes easy to make.. add your touch to it.. and voila! We all won’t be so grumpy by the end of day! Also come visit gujarat sometime and it would be a pleasure to serve you 🙂
thanks for sharing.. i wish all of it cud magically appear infront of me somehow
I better a make a run to the empty kitchen now and cook something to refill my tummy.
Dreaming abt ur food.
Love, always.
Kajal
Hi Kajal! Thanks a lot for taking out the time to write such a sweet message! Means so much to me 🙂 And I would totally agree with you about ovens and students. I do have a few no bake recipes that you guys can try with only a few ingredients and no oven (check out my recipe index) but I will surely try to put up more 🙂 And I would loveeeeee to come to Gujarat someday! Thanks a lot for such a lovely message, this is what keeps me going! Take care!