Creamy Mushroom Parmesan Pasta
Sharp, creamy mushroom pasta comes together in just thirty minutes with a silky parmesan black pepper sauce. YES is the word you're looking for!
Ingredients
- 1 pound short-cut pasta
- 12 ounces sliced baby bella mushrooms
- 4 ounces sliced shiitake mushrooms
- 4 shallots sliced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 cups milk or half and half
- 4 ounces parmesan cheese freshly grated (about 1 ½ cups grated)
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Cook the pasta to al dente in heavily salted water per the package directions. Right before draining, scoop out and save about a cup of the cooking water.
- Meanwhile, preheat a large skillet to medium-high heat with a drizzle of oil. Add the mushrooms with a sprinkle of salt and saute for five minutes.
- Add the shallots to the pan and stir for five minutes more to soften.
- Add the butter to the pan and sprinkle the flour over the mushrooms. Stir to coat for one minute, then very slowly drizzle in the milk or half and half to create a bubbly sauce. Turn the heat down if the sauce bubbles very aggressively.
- Add the pasta, 1 cup of grated parmesan cheese, and a splash of pasta water to the sauce. Stir to combine.
- At this point, adjust! Add salt and pepper, more pasta water or parmesan, and stir a few times until the pasta is coated but not soupy and the sauce tastes great.
- Serve with extra parm and black pepper. Enjoy!
Notes
This is the skillet I use! It's one of my absolute favorites.
Feel free to use any mushrooms that you like, and change it up each time! The wild mushroom blends that are already stemmed and sliced are particularly quick and easy.
I like freshly grated parm for this because it melts nicely into the sauce, but you DON'T have to use imported Parmigiana Reggiano - any parmesan will work well as long as you grate it yourself! Or don't, it'll be fine either way.
Tried this recipe?Let me know how it was!