Farfalle With Wild Mushrooms Recipes

MUSHROOM FARFALLE

Steps:

• Get your ingredients out and a food processor (bowl blade), and boil the kettle. Place a large frying pan on a medium-high heat, a large lidded pan and a high heat, and a small frying pan on a medium heat.
• Put 25g of dried porcini mushrooms into a mug and just cover with boiling water.
• Put 2 tablespoons of olive oil into the large frying pan, squash in 2 to 4 unpeeled garlic cloves through a garlic crusher, crumble in ½ a small dried red chilli and tear in 250g of chestnut mushrooms.
• Strip in the leaves from 6 sprigs of thyme, then add the soaked porcini and toss and fry for a few minutes.
• Put 320g of dried farfalle into the large pan, cover with boiling salted water and cook according to the packet instructions.
• Toast 50g of blanched hazelnuts in the small frying pan until golden, tossing regularly.
• Put 200g of baby spinach into a salad bowl, coarsely grate over or matchstick and add 1 eating apple, then crumble over 40g of blue cheese.
• Crush the toasted nuts in a pestle and mortar, then scatter over the salad.
• Tip the mushrooms into the processor and whiz until fairly smooth, then return to the pan and add 3 small ladles of pasta cooking water and 1 teaspoon of truffle oil, season to taste and simmer gently.
• Drain the pasta, reserving a cupful of the starchy cooking water, then toss the pasta with the sauce, loosening with a splash of cooking water, if needed.
• Finely grate over the zest of 1 lemon, finely chop and add most of the top leafy half of ½ a bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley (15g) along with 150g low-fat cottage cheese, then toss together and serve straight away.
• Drizzle the salad with 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil, squeeze over the juice of the zested lemon and serve on the side.

FARFALLE PASTA WITH SPINACH, MUSHROOMS, AND CARAMELIZED ONIONS

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil on medium-high heat in a large skillet. Add sliced onions and cook on high heat for about 10 minutes, constantly stirring with the spatula.
• The onions should start to brown, but without burning.
• Reduce heat to medium and continue cooking onions for 10 more minutes, continuing to stir, as onions brown even more without burning. At this point add a pinch of salt over onions.
• Continue cooking for 10 more minutes on medium or low heat, stirring occasionally to make sure onions don't stick to the bottom of the pan or burn.
• In total, you should have cooked onions for 30 minutes.
• Remove the skillet from heat and sprinkle the onions with a small amount of balsamic vinegar to deglaze the pan.
• Using a spatula, stir the onions, scraping the bottom of the pan and coating onions with a pinch of balsamic vinegar you just added. Remove caramelized onions to a plate.
• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in the same skillet on medium heat. Add sliced mushrooms. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt.
• Cook mushrooms for about 5 minutes, occasionally stirring, until mushrooms are soft.
• Add fresh spinach to the skillet and stir on low heat just until spinach starts to wilt.
• Add half-and-half to the mushroom and spinach mixture and bring to a quick boil. Immediately reduce to simmer.
• Add 2/3 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Keep stirring while the sauce simmers until the cheese melts.
• Add caramelized onions back to the skillet with the pasta sauce.
• Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain.
• Add cooked and drained farfalle pasta to the creamy sauce. Stir on low heat for a couple of minutes to reheat.
• If the sauce is too thick, add a small amount of half-and-half to thin it out. If it is too thin, add a small amount of shredded Parmesan cheese, and stir it in, while the sauce simmers.
• Serve with more shredded parmesan cheese sprinkled on top.

FARFALLE WITH FOREST MUSHROOMS, PEAS, AND PARSLEY

Steps:

• Melt butter in large deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add garlic and shallots; sauté 1 minute. Add shiitake and crimini mushrooms and sauté 5 minutes. Add chanterelles; sauté until all mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes longer. Add wine and boil until reduced by half, about 5 minutes. Add cream and simmer until liquid is reduced to sauce consistency, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Stir in peas and parsley. Remove from heat. Season sauce with salt and pepper. Cover to keep warm.
• Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain, reserving 1 cup pasta cooking liquid. Return pasta to pot.
• Add mushroom sauce to pasta and toss to coat, moistening with reserved pasta cooking liquid, if necessary.

FARFALLE WITH ASPARAGUS AND WILD MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Place pancetta in small frying pan and cook over medium heat until crisp. Drain on paper towels.
• Soften garlic in two tablespoons butter and the olive oil in a medium-size pan. Coarsely chop porcini and wild mushrooms and add to the pan. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring frequently, over low to medium heat.
• Meanwhile, cut asparagus into half-inch pieces and blanch. Add with the peas to mushrooms; season to taste.
• Pour in cream and reduce over high heat until it is thickened. Add basil leaves and toss. Correct seasoning. Crumble pancetta into little pieces and add.
• Meanwhile, cook farfalle in six quarts boiling salted water until al dente (it will take about 10 to 15 minutes). Drain, place in heated bowl and toss with one tablespoon butter. Add sauce and a little grated cheese and toss. Serve immediately, with more Parmesan passed separately.

BAKED CHEESY PASTA WITH WILD MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 450 degrees. Trim the mushrooms and cut into 1-inch pieces. Toss with the olive oil, the salt, a few grinds of pepper and the rosemary. Spread on a large baking sheet and roast, tossing once or twice, until golden brown and crisped around the edges, 15 to 18 minutes. Discard rosemary.
• Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook for at least a few minutes less than the package directs. (You want the pasta very al dente; it will finish softening in the sauce.) Drain well.
• Turn oven up to 500 degrees. In a large bowl, stir together the cream, ricotta, fontina, Parmesan, sage, pepper, garlic and a pinch of salt. Stir in the pasta and mushrooms. Arrange in a shallow 2-quart gratin dish or 9- by 13-inch pan. Bake until cheese is melted and bubbly and browned in spots, 10 to 15 minutes.

FARFALLE WITH CREAMY WILD MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt, drain.
• In a large nonstick skillet, melt the butter over medium high heat.
• Add the mushrooms,onion, shallots, garlic, 1 tsp salt, and black pepper.
• Cook for 12 minutes or until liquid evaporates and mushrooms are tender, stirring occasionally.
• Add wine, cook 2 more minutes or until liquid evaporates, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat.
• Add pasta, cream, cheese, and parsley. Toss gently to coat.
• Stir in remaining salt.