Tortellini With Creamy Mushroom Sauce

Submitted by Katanashrp

"You can use any kind of tortellini, and mushrooms for this recipe. You can make this a vegetarian dish, or not."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 lb tortellini
• 1⁄4 cup olive oil
• 1 1⁄4 mushrooms, thinly sliced
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1⁄2 cup dry white wine
• 10 ounces heavy cream
• 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
• parmesan cheese, for topping
• nutmeg, a pinch

directions

1. Cook the pasta until al dente, drain and return to the pan to keep warm.
2. Meanwhile, heat the oil, add the mushrooms, and cook for 5 minutes.
3. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute.
4. Stir in the wine, and cook for another 5 minutes, or untill the liquid has reduced by half.
5. Add cream, nutmeg and parsley and stir to combine.
6. Cook for another 3-5 minutes, until the sauce has thickened slightly.
7. Season with salt and pepper.
8. Place tortellini on serving plates, spoon the sauce over and sprinkle with Parmesan
9. Enjoy!

Reviews

[I'mPat]

I scaled back for 3 serves and used a 375 gram pack of mixed pasta veal tortellini and about 8 baby belle mushrooms, otherwise made as per recipe except when serving I put the tortellini into a oven proof dish and poured the sauce over and mixed through the pasta to and put in a warm oven to let the flavours develop while a made a side of a garden salad and heated up the garlic bread and when serving I sprinkled sharp cheddar cheese on top as my lot do not like parmesan which they refer to as spew cheese but all 4 of us enjoyed immensely as was, thank you Katanashrp, made for Name that Ingredient tag game.

 

[duonyte]

I was in a bit of a quandry on how to rate this recipe. I gave it a 4 because of the flavor of the sauce. The flaw in this recipe is that there is just not enough sauce. I had ended up with 1 1/4 cup mushrooms, simply because I had sliced them up before measuring, so I made the full amount of the sauce except for using half the cream, and made only 1/2 lb of tortellini. There was not enough sauce for two servings. I had also added a 1/2 cup of dried shiitakes, rehydrated, as I find dried mushrooms really punch up the flavor. The garlic was a bit too subtle for me, I would probably slice the cloves next time. I used half and half instead of cream and that worked quit well. So if you are making this, keep in mind that you may want more sauce.