When I say mushroom pasta, I mean REAL mushroom pasta: silky, loaded with cheese, and every forkful tasting of mushrooms roasted in butter. This is not a sensible Tuesday-night plate of noodles, it’s rich and it owns that. And you’ll still clean your plate and want more, because a hit of lemon and Dijon mustard cuts through all that fat at exactly the right moment. Make it once for company and watch what happens.<\/p>\n
That’s where the flavour lives, so don’t cut corners on it. Most recipes have you use a single pack, the mushrooms vanish into the sauce, and you end up with ordinary parmesan noodles. I use a pound and a half in a 12-inch skillet, let them release every drop of water, and only then do they start to brown. Ten to twelve minutes of patience and they taste like toasted hazelnuts and seared meat.<\/p>\n
Pre-shredded parmesan is coated in cellulose to keep it from clumping in the bag, and that coating refuses to melt. It stays gritty in the pan and you’re left wondering why your sauce looks sandy. Grate a wedge yourself, a full cup, and throw it in all at once off the heat. It dissolves into the hot starchy pasta water and becomes the sauce. This isn’t a purist’s detail, it’s the difference between silky and grainy.<\/p>\n
There’s butter, cream and a cup of cheese in here. Without acid you’d eat three bites and be done. Two teaspoons of Dijon mustard, the juice of half a lemon and the zest of a whole one cut straight through all that fat and hand your appetite back between forkfuls. Nobody else does this in a mushroom pasta, and I’ve never understood why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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