Penne With Mushroom Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• prepare pasta as directed.
• place sliced mushrooms, olive oil, garlic and parsley in a pan on medium heat.
• heat mushrooms for approximately 5 minutes.
• add chicken broth, milk, and wondra to mushrooms.
• stir until thickened.
• add salt and pepper to taste.
• serve over pasta, add parmesan cheese.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Place the penne pasta in the pot, cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until al dente, and drain.
• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat, and cook the garlic and mushrooms until mushrooms are tender. Season with salt and pepper, and mix in the butter.
• In a large bowl, toss the cooked pasta and the mushroom mixture. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and garnish with parsley to serve.

Steps:

• In a 6-quart kettle bring 5 quarts salted water to a boil for pasta.
• Make pesto:
• In a 10- to 12-inch non-stick skillet heat 1 tablespoon oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté mushrooms with Worcestershire sauce, Sherry, and salt and pepper to taste, stirring, until liquid mushrooms give off is evaporated and mushrooms begin to brown, about 10 minutes.
• In a food processor purée mushroom mixture with garlic, pine nuts, Parmesan, and remaining 3 tablespoons oil. Add parsley and blend until parsley is chopped fine. Pesto keeps, surface covered with plastic wrap, chilled, 1 week.
• Cook pasta in boiling water until al dente. Reserve 1 cup cooking water and drain pasta.
• In a large bowl whisk together pesto and 2/3 cup reserved hot cooking water. Add pasta and toss well, thinning pesto, if necessary, with remaining reserved cooking water.

Steps:

• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add in onion, celery, and carrot; stir/saute for 5 minutes.
• Stir in tomato paste; cook 2 minutes, stirring continually.
• Add in wine; cook for 10 minutes or until liquid almost evaporates.
• Stir in thyme, pepper, and consomme; bring to a boil; cook until reduced to 1 cup (about 3 minutes).
• Strain through a sieve into a bowl; discard solids; keep consomme mixture warm.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a pan over medium-high heat.
• Add in mushrooms; stir/saute for 5 minutes.
• Add in consomme mixture; bring to a boil.
• Lower heat, and simmer 5 minutes.
• Combine water and cornstarch, add to mushroom mixture along with salt; bring to a boil.
• Cook 1 minute.
• Combine pasta and sauce; tossing gently to coat.