Best Pasta Shells With Portobello Mushrooms And Asparagus In Boursin Sauce Recipes
PASTA SHELLS WITH PORTABELLA MUSHROOMS AND BOURSIN SAUCE
This is one of my all time favorite pasta dishes. It came from one of my mom's old cookbooks, although I have made a couple tweaks here and there over the years. I know Boursin is a little more expensive but if you can help it, don't use the inexpensive imitation brands. The sauce just won't come out right. I have used the low fat Boursin and it works fine. In a pinch, the alouette brand will work, or you can try subbing goat cheese made with garlic and herbs. For a really big meal, add in some chicken, either grilled, rotisserie or just leftover! As a note, this isn't the best dish to reheat so keep that in mind.
Provided by Bakabeth
Categories Pasta Shells
Time 35m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Snap the tough ends off the asparagus and discard them. Cut the spears into 1/2 inch pieces.
- Melt butter with the oil over medium heat in a large frying pan.
- Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally until the mushrooms are tender and well browned, about 6 minutes. Add salt, pepper and garlic. Stir and reduce heat to medium/medium low.
- Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, heat chicken broth. Once lightly boiling, add in Boursin cheese and white wine, stirring with a fork to help melt cheese. Lower heat and simmer to thicken. If not using pepper Boursin, add 1/4 tsp black pepper. Once the cheese is fully incorporated to the liquids, add sauce to mushrooms, stir and simmer.
- In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the pasta until almost done, about 6 minutes.
- Add the asparagus and cook until it and the pasta are just done, about 3-4 minutes longer. (If using broccoli add with 2 minutes left to go, snap peas about 1 1/2 min).
- Drain the pasta. Toss with the mushrooms and sauce. Season to taste.
- Serve with Parmesan cheese on side. Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 448.1, Fat 8.6, SaturatedFat 2.8, Cholesterol 7.6, Sodium 581.5, Carbohydrate 73.9, Fiber 6.5, Sugar 7, Protein 17.9
PASTA WITH PORTOBELLO MUSHROOMS
The key to giving a portobello (or any mushroom) dense texture is to cook it slowly in oil so that most of its moisture is driven out. My biggest successes came in taking whole mushrooms and cooking them, covered, for as long as two hours. Nearly as good, however, and more than twice as fast, is to cut up the mushrooms and cook them in oil, uncovered, for 30 to 45 minutes. At that point, you not only have fabulous mushrooms, which you can use in a pasta sauce, as I do here, or to top salads or stir into rice dishes, but you also have very good-flavored oil. To further improve the mushrooms' flavor, I like to use the trick popularized by Marcella Hazan: add a few reconstituted dried porcini to the portobellos.
Provided by Mark Bittman
Categories brunch, dinner, easy, lunch, main course
Time 1h
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Trim hard parts from mushrooms and discard. Rinse mushrooms quickly to remove grit; cut caps into slices and stems into small chunks. Combine in a medium skillet with 1 clove garlic (crushed and peeled), thyme, olive oil and some salt and pepper. Cook over sufficiently low heat so that mixture bubbles but mushrooms do not brown. Continue to cook, stirring infrequently, until they are quite shrunken in size and appear firm, 30 to 45 minutes. (At this point, you can pause for several hours before resuming cooking.) If you are using porcinis, soak them in hot water to cover for a few minutes so that they soften.
- Set a large pot of water to boil for pasta and salt it. Mince remaining garlic. Turn heat under oil to medium, and add garlic to the portobellos along with the drained porcinis. Cook, stirring occasionally, until garlic begins to color. Add tomatoes and raise heat to medium high. Cook, stirring occasionally, until they break up and become saucy, about 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta until it is tender but not mushy. Taste sauce and adjust its seasoning. When pasta is done, drain it, toss with sauce, top with Parmesan, and serve.
PASTA WITH PORTOBELLO MUSHROOMS
Provided by Marian Burros
Categories dinner, lunch, quick, pastas, appetizer, main course, side dish
Time 20m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Cook the pasta in boiling water.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet, and saute the shallots, ginger and mushrooms until the mushrooms soften and release their liquid.
- Blend the ricotta and yogurt thoroughly. Then, thoroughly blend a little of the yogurt mixture with the cornstarch to form a smooth paste. Spoon the cornstarch mixture into the remaining yogurt-ricotta mixture, and blend thoroughly.
- Reduce the heat under the mushrooms to very low. Stir in the yogurt mixture, and cook until the sauce is warmed, but not hot. If it gets hot, it will separate.
- Season with salt and pepper, and spoon over the pasta. Sprinkle with parsley. Serve with cheese.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 843, UnsaturatedFat 11 grams, Carbohydrate 121 grams, Fat 23 grams, Fiber 9 grams, Protein 40 grams, SaturatedFat 10 grams, Sodium 494 milligrams, Sugar 21 grams
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