Pasta With Mushrooms, Tomatoes, and Broccoli Cream

"This is a great recipe I got from my friend in Portland, OR. It is always refreshing and very healthy. Great for any season!"
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
4

ingredients

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directions

  • Cut broccoli into florets with 1 inch stem.
  • Drop broccoli into pot of boiling salted water.
  • Boil until easily pierced with a knife.
  • Drain.
  • In a sauté pan add butter and broccoli.
  • Cook over medium-low heat until broccoli is broken down and all the moisture is cooked off.
  • Place broccoli in a blender or food processor.
  • Add milk and olive oil and puree until a smooth cream (add more milk if needed to make creamy).
  • Season with salt and pepper.
  • Set broccoli cream aside.
  • Cook pasta.
  • In sauté pan, head 2 TB olive oil over medium heat.
  • Add mushrooms and cook a couple minutes.
  • Add chopped thyme and garlic.
  • Before garlic begins to brown, deglaze with wine (or broth) and simmer until almost dry.
  • Drain pasta and toss with mushroom mixture and lightly toss in chopped tomato.
  • On each plate layer broccoli puree with pasta on top.
  • Season with salt and pepper, top with cheese.

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Reviews

  1. Excellent recipe, I took the advice of another reviewer who said it was bland and sauteed garlic and onions with the broccoli before pureeing, and added sea salt and pepper, I then added tomato sauce to the blender. The sauce was delicious! Also, served it with roasted red peppers. Thank you for the great recipe!
     
  2. This was really good. I added some romano cheese and we really liked it. Thanks for posting. Made for Pick a Chef Spring 2009.
     
  3. I really love the idea of this, and it is beautiful to look at. However, we found it a bit on the bland side. I definitely think with a few additions this could be a GREAT meal though! I had already used about double the mushrooms but there still wasn't many considering the recipe used a lb of pasta. So I may use more mushrooms and perhaps a mix of them and sautee them up in some butter for more flavor. I would also maybe add some more seasonings and possibly some type of cheese to it. And I was thinking possible some cut up ham or chicken would be really good if you wanted to add a meat to this dish. I might have to try this again and try a few things to see what else might jazz it up a bit. I added more salt and pepper at the table to my own and that did help a bit to really pull the flavors that were already there out as well. Great way to eat your veggies though!
     
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