Garlic Mushroom Whole Wheat Pasta

This post is scheduled to post on the 3rd Friday of Lent, as most of you know, Catholics fast on Lenten Fridays by not eating meat- hence the meatless weekly posts Dana and I have been doing. So here’s my meatless recipe for the week, its a garlicy, mushroomy whole wheat pasta that is delicious, the sad part is, this Friday is also St. Patrick’s Day and many Catholic dioceses have granted a dispensation, allowing us to eat meat on this Friday. Hooray for reubens! I should have posted a reuben recipe. But alas, I shall remain the good Catholic girl that I am and post a meatless recipe. If you are a Catholic and are joining in the celebetory meats this St. Patty’s Day, then you can just eat this on a different day or next Friday 🙂

Those of you who follow the blog know that I only recently started liking and eating mushrooms, the magic of turning 30 apparently. I wonder what will happen when I turn 40? Anyway, that is why I pinned this recipe, and it really is good! I missed out on mushrooms for so many decades, it’s a tragedy. Not only is this pasta garlicy and has a nice robust earthyness to it with a little kick from some red pepper flakes, but its also super easy and quick! Here we go.

You’ll need these things:

I used to think that whole wheat pasta tasted like cardboard, I was dumb. Mushrooms are good, whole wheat pasta is good, young Tory was so foolish.

Cook your pasta according to package instructions, I used whole wheat angel hair, you can really use any pasta you like.

Heat some olive oil in a pan over medium high heat, add your mushrooms and cook a few minutes until they turn golden brown. then shove ’em aside.

like this:

And add the garlic and red pepper flakes, cook a couple minutes until they starts to smell all nice and garlicy.

Put your cooked and drained pasta in a bowl, top with your mushroom mixture, sprinkle on some parmesan cheese and parsley and dig in!

If you like mushrooms and garlic, I suspect you’ll find this recipe to your liking. Enjoy 🙂

An after thought- maybe don’t make this on St Patrick’s Day, it probably doesn’t pair well with green beer, or whiskey for that matter, this is a wine kinda meal.

Gravel & Dine

Garlic Mushroom Pasta

A robust pasta dish with garlic and mushrooms, tasty and ready in 15 minutes- there's nothing not to love!

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Servings: 4

Course: Main

Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 4 servings whatever the box says uncooked whole wheat pasta (I used angel hair)
• 5-6 cloves garlic finely minced
• 1 package about 2 cups whole white mushrooms, sliced (or any type of mushroom)
• 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• olive oil
• Parmesan cheese for topping
• Parsley for topping

Method

 

1. Cook pasta according to package instructions
2. Meanwhile, cook the mushrooms in olive oil over medium high heat for about 3 minutes, push aside
3. Add garlic and red pepper flakes, cook until fragrant, about 2 minutes
4. Stir mushrooms, garlic, red pepper, into pasta, top with parmesan cheese and parsley