Pasta ai Funghi
Pasta with mushrooms cooked trifolati, the Italian way — fried hard in olive oil with garlic and parsley until browned, deepened with a handful of dried porcini and finished with butter and cheese.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 400 g tagliatelle or pappardelle
- 500 g mixed mushrooms (chestnut, oyster, button), sliced
- 15 g dried porcini
- 150 ml hot water, for soaking
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 80 ml dry white wine
- 30 g butter
- 3 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 50 g vegetarian hard cheese or Parmesan, grated
- to taste salt
- to taste black pepper
Nutrition (estimated)
medium confidenceRecipe total: 1320 kcal · P 43.8g · C 57.4g · F 102g
Estimated from 10 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Soak the porcini in the hot water for 15 minutes, then squeeze them out and chop; strain the soaking liquid through kitchen paper and keep it.
- 2Cook the pasta in well-salted boiling water until 1 minute short of al dente and reserve a cupful of the water.
- 3Meanwhile heat the oil in your widest frying pan over high heat and fry the fresh mushrooms in two batches, leaving them untouched for the first 2 minutes, then tossing, for 5–6 minutes in all until well browned. Crowded mushrooms steam and turn grey.
- 4Return all the mushrooms to the pan, lower the heat to medium, add the garlic and porcini and cook for 1 minute.
- 5Pour in the wine and the porcini liquid and let it bubble down by half. Season with salt and pepper.
- 6Add the drained pasta, the butter and most of the parsley and toss over the heat with splashes of pasta water until glossy.
- 7Off the heat, toss in half the cheese and serve with the rest and the remaining parsley.
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Questions and answers
How long does Pasta ai Funghi take to make?
About 35 minutes: 15 min prep and 20 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Pasta ai Funghi?
12 ingredients: tagliatelle or pappardelle, mixed mushrooms (chestnut, dried porcini, hot water, olive oil, garlic cloves, dry white wine, butter, flat-leaf parsley, vegetarian hard cheese or Parmesan, salt, black pepper.
How many servings does this Pasta ai Funghi recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Pasta ai Funghi?
About 330 kcal, with 11 g protein, 14.3 g carbohydrate and 25.5 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Pasta ai Funghi recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Pasta ai Funghi?
Pasta ai Funghi comes from Italian cuisine.
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