Creamy Mushroom Pasta

Creamy Mushroom Pasta, a super simple pasta recipe featuring garlic, mushrooms, and a porcini and truffle sauce. This 7 ingredient mushroom pasta dish is a flavorful crowd-pleaser and it's ready in under 30 minutes!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Servings people

Calories 1890kcal

Author Pina Bresciani

Ingredients

200 g penne pasta
2 tablespoon olive oil extra virgin
2 garlic cloves whole
2 cups fresh crimini mushrooms sliced
1 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoon porcini and truffle sauce
2 tablespoon parmigiano reggiano grated
salt to taste

Instructions

Boil water in a large pot. When water is boiling, salt the water and throw the penne in. Cook the penne until before al dente - this is important, they will finish cooking in the sauce.
Just before the penne are thrown into the water - start the sauce. In a large pan, heat up the olive oil over medium-low heat. Add the garlic cloves in. Once garlic cloves are sizzling and fragrant, thrown in the sliced mushrooms.
Add salt. Stir, and cover with a lid, (still on medium-low heat) and let the mushrooms cook down, until they’re tender (about 8-10 minutes), remove the garlic cloves.
Add the cream in. Add more salt if necessary. Let it warm through - about 3-5 minutes.
Add the pasta to the pan. Stir everything together, add pasta water (optional) let the cream thicken, and let the pasta finish cooking in the pan (at least 3-5 minutes for the cream to thicken).
Add the porcini and truffle sauce, as well as the parmigiano reggiano, and give everything one final mix.
Serve and top with additional parmigiano if desired. Enjoy!

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Notes

Using whole gloved of garlic and then removing them is a common Italian cooking technique. In traditional Italian coking, garlic flavor is meant to be very subtle. If you'd prefer a stronger garlic flavor, you can mince the garlic and keep it in the sauce instead of using the whole cloves.
You can omit the porcini and truffle sauce - it does a lot of flavor so I recommend adding it if you can. But the pasta will still be delicious without it.

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