Today, I decided to take a well known recipe and pimp it up to make it more tasty. It turned out divine and thought I will share it with you. Besides… I have not shared one of my recipes with you for a while 🙂

This can be served as either a main dish or as a starter…

Ingredients (for 2)

• 200g pasta of your choice
• olive oil
• garlic, crushed
• chili oil  (optional)
• chilies, de-seeded and chopped thinly
• mushrooms, chopped
• butter
• fine herbs
• parsley, chopped thinly (optional)
• spring onions
• salt and pepper
• cheese (grated Parmesan or Pecorino Romano, optional)

Method

1. Start with cooking the pasta of your choice according to the instructions on the packet. Make sure that you leave them al dente. Drizzle some olive oil and fine herbs.
2. Reserve 3 tablespoons of the cooking liquid in a glass on the side.
3. In a frying pan I melted the butter and sauteed the crushed garlic and soon after, added the mushrooms.
4. Once golden and not yet browned, I’ve put in the thinly chopped chilies, and added chili oil for the extra hot spice.
5. Add the reserved cooking liquid.
6. I didn’t want the spring onions to be fully cooked which is why I added them at this point. I wanted the bits to remain crunchy-ish.
7. Once ready, add the pasta and season with parsley, salt and pepper.
8. Toss to make sure that the pasta is covered in the mixture and everything is combined.
9. Serve immediately with grated Parmesan or Pecorino Romano.

Bon Apetit!