Creamy Mushroom Pasta
Creamy Mushroom Pasta is always a hit in our home. We are carb lovers, except my “always on diet hubby”…haha!
Creamy Mushroom Pasta
This Mushroom pasta is so good. If you are missing the meat on your vegetarian days this dish more than makes up for it.
It has a meaty flavour with some smokiness, from the spanish paprika.
Chilli in my books, always adds a nice kick to almost every dish. And this dish has a fair amount of chili.
Ingredients Required
For this dish I used 150 grams of exotic mushrooms and 250 grams of portobellini mushrooms.
You can use just portobellini mushrooms if you prefer. However, the exotic mushrooms does add more “meatiness” to the dish.
I used penne pasta for this dish. However, you can also use macaroni, it will work fine.
You will also need a few herbs and spices, chillies, butter, flour and milk. Of course some cheese because how can you have pasta without cheese.
How to cook this dish
Just because… I am the queen of simple recipes I have kept this recipe as fuss-free as possible.
Unfortunately if you are cooking a dish there will always be chopping. Unless you have a sous chef to assist.
However, I tried to cook most of the ingredients in one pot. The only other pot you will need is to cook the pasta.
When cooking pasta there is no need to add oil to the pasta water. Which I know many people do.
You should place your pasta in rapidly boiling water and immediately swirl the pasta around.
This will prevent the pasta from sticking to the pot. The sauce adheres to the pasta better if there is no oil added to the water.
Pasta water is liquid gold. Always reserve some to add to your pasta dishes.
It’s the pasta water that makes your sauce silky and delicious.
If you are not serving your pasta dish immediately you can also reserve some of the water to add to the dish when re-heating.
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First Published August 23, 2019. Updated October 5, 2024

Creamy Mushroom Pasta
Ingredients
- 2 cups dry pasta
- 150 gram exotic mushrooms
- 250 gram portobellini mushrooms sliced
- 3 tbsp vegetable or avocado oil
- 1 onion finely diced
- 3 large cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoon dried italian herbs
- 1 teaspoon piri piri chilli seasoning
- 1 teaspoon green chilli paste
- 3 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp cake flour
- 2&1/2 cups milk
- salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup cheddar or mozarella cheese
Instructions
- Cook the pasta until it's almost cooked, as per package instructions, drain and set aside. Reserve a cup of the pasta water
- Heat the oil and fry the sliced exotic mushrooms, season with salt and pepper. Once golden brown, remove from pan and set aside
- To the same pan, add the butter and diced onion. Saute until the onion is soft and translucent. Add garlic and fry for a minute. Add the piri piri seasoning, italian herbs and chillies.
- Add the sliced portobellini mushroom and fry on high heat until all the liquid has reduced
- Reduce heat. Add the flour and mix well. Cook for a minute and slowly add in the milk. Season with salt and pepper.
- Mix until the sauce thickens. It shouldn't be too thick
- Add the cooked pasta and the pasta water and mix well. Sprinkle the cheese on top. Add the reserved mushrooms over the cheese. Sprinkle the paprika on top
- Place the dish in the oven, using the grill function. Allow the cheese to melt, should take about 5 minutes
Notes
- If you don't have the piri piri seasoning you can leave it out. I love the extra smokiness it adds to the pasta. I purchased the seasoning from Woolworths. Alternatively if you have some chipotle seasoning you can also use that.
- You can add half mozarella and half cheddar cheese to the dish if you prefer. The quantity of cheese can also be increased if you prefer more cheese.
You can try some of other favourite pasta dishes:
Creamy Chilli and Garlic Prawn Pasta
Hello
I tried this for supper tonight and it was delicious. Simple, easy and tasty! Thank you for helping make working mum’s provide amazing food on a tight deadline.
You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed it:-)
Simple and easy – just added peppers and tasted delicious. Love all your recipes.