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

Recipe Process Overview | In Brief

Creamy Pasta With Mushrooms And Herbs | Chefs At Heart

Recipe by chefsatheartCourse: Special Feature, Cooking, prep around 15 min, dairy free, baby food

Servings

6

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

11

minutes

Calories

401

kcal

Ingredients

• Step 1: Boil Water & Cook Pasta

• 400 gr – 500 gr of pasta, used Tripolini from Carrefour which are baby friendly

• 1.5 L of boiled water in a kettle, quicker than waiting to become boiled when on the stove

• Step 2: Prepare The Sauce

• 250 ml of cream, used Cream Alternative of Alpro Soya

• 125 gr White Mushrooms

• 50 gr of Almond Flour

• 40 gr grated Cheddar Cheese

• 25 gr of frozen sweet corn

• 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil, used Ladinio Cretan Olive Oil from Kibsons

• 2 tablespoons of Basil Pesto, used Sacla

• 1 brown onion, chopped/diced

• 1 glove of garlic, chopped/diced

• some fresh coriander

• some Everyday Spices, from Spinneys

• some Nutmeg

Directions

• UTENSILS
• Step 1: Boil Water & Cook Pasta | < 12 mins
  Boil around 1.5 liters of water in your kettle
  Add this to a casserole in medium to high heat
  Then add the pasta with a splash of olive oil
  Cook for about 11 mins
  Then drain them
  Add a splash of oil when put back in the empty casserole
• Step 2: Prepare The Sauce | < 12 mins *
  Sauté the onion and the garlic
  Then add the mushrooms, some corn
  Then add plant based cream, herbs & spices, almond flour and some cheddar cheese
  
  * to be done in parallel with Step 1
• Step 3: Mix Step 1 + Step 2 | < 1 min
  Mix everything together
  Wait for 1 min or so for the flavour to be absorbed from the pasta
• Step 4: Enjoy!
  Ideally as a lunch or dinner or as a side dish
  

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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.