Mushroom linguine
A traditional recipe for mushroom linguine (or any pasta of your choice)
Serves 4 – 6
Ingredients
500g mixed mushrooms (wild mushroom varieties if available)
3 cloves of Garlic finely chopped
1 tsp fresh Rosemary finely chopped
½ tsp Chilli flakes
3 tbls of Cognac
¼ cup Veal stock
¼ cup Crème fraiche
50g Butter
150ml extra virgin Olive oil
Salt flakes, ground Black pepper
300g Linguini (or preferred pasta shape)
Grated Parmesan to serve
¼ cup Italian Parsley finely chopped
Method
- In plenty of salted boiling water, cook pasta as per instructions on the pack.
- Meanwhile, add butter and oil to a sauté pan. When the butter is melted add garlic, chilli and rosemary and sauté for a minute without letting the garlic burn.
- Add mushrooms and seasoning and sauté for a further few minutes allowing the mushrooms to seal and caramelise.
- Deglaze pan with cognac and then add the stock.
- Bring to the boil and then simmer the mushrooms for 5 minutes (or until mushrooms are just tender)
- Stir in the crème fraiche and then add the mushrooms to the well drained pasta.
- Serve with grated parmesan and chopped parsley.