Creamy Pasta With Mushrooms And Herbs | Chefs At Heart

• A Yummy & Baby Friendly dish in less than 15 minutes
• Recipe Insights | In Brief
• Recipe Process Overview | In Brief
• Technical Details

A Yummy & Baby Friendly dish in less than 15 minutes

These Creamy Pasta With Mushrooms And Herbs are yummy, quick, light in calories, light in flavour, rich in protein and can be eaten for lunch or for dinner.

We love pasta in our household. We tend to cook a pasta dish at least once per week. We tend to joke that Faye is probably Italian somehow as pasta is the only dish that she always eats in whatever mood she is. And for that reason, we always have some pasta stored in our fridge for just in case Faye does not fancy another dish that we made or if not, it takes less than 15 min to make a pasta dish anyway. Pasta can remain fresh in your refrigerator for up to 5 days.

We usually eat pasta for lunch and avoid doing so for dinner time. Why? Check the technical details section below.

Recipe Insights | In Brief

Item	Info
Cost	AED ~19.51 | GBP ~4.16 | EUR ~4.49 | USD ~5.32 for the amount of the ingredients required by the recipe AED ~188.25 | GBP ~40.06 | EUR ~43.28 | USD ~51.3 if assumed that new packages will be bought for the recipe and that some part of it will remain unused i.e. 500 gr of almond flour will be bought but only 50 gr are needed
Difficulty	quick & easy
Makes	6 adult portions that can be split in 4 adult and 4 toddler portions or more
Life Span	up to 5 days in the fridge up to 3 months in the freezer – yes you can freeze it!

Recipe Process Overview | In Brief

Technical Details

• Pasta is high in carbohydrates, and for that reason it often takes the blame of being unhealthy. However, everything is relative they say. Carbohydrates are an important part of our nutrition: the are our body's main source of energy. According to NHS, muscles have limited carbohydrate stores, and need to be topped up regularly. A diet, that is low in carbs, can lead to a lack of energy during exercise, early fatigue and delayed recovery.
• They become unhealthy when consumed in large quantities and in not great quality, as their excess is turned and stored as fat. For this reason
  • keep your portion sizes right - usually the right amount of a portion if indicated by the size of your fist.
  • pick healthy toppings such as home made sauces that have vegetables, healthy and good quality fats such as plant based fats and protein.
  • pick whole grain pasta instead as they are higher in fiber and lower in calories and will make you feel fuller than the refined pasta.
• Carbs and pasta can be eaten at any time in the day. Do you know that there are cultures that they have noodles for breakfast? Or carbs are an essential element of the Mediterranean diet which everyone recognizes that is probably one of the healthiest and most balanced diets recommended? However, in our nutritional routine, we do tend to have pasta for lunch rather than for dinner. Why? Because eating pasta for lunch tends to be the biggest meal in our day. By doing that, we ensure that we keep our stomach fulfilled and can can have a lighter in calories meal at night. In that way, we have a greater potential to burn those carbs throughout the day until we go to bed whereas if it was for dinner that would be less likely. If we do not manage to burn the most, then those will be stored as fat.