Mushroom pasta salad
This salad is very simple to prepare and is absolutely delicious. Sure to quickly become one of your favourites. Lightly fried sliced spring onions and mushrooms are mixed together with toasted pine nuts and pasta twirls in a dressing of crème fraîche, chopped chives and lemon juice.
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Mushroom pasta salad recipe
Serves: 4 persons
Prep time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Ingredients
- 8 oz (225 g) of button mushrooms
- 4 oz (115 g) of pasta twirls
- 1 bunch of spring onions
- 6 tbsp of low fat crème fraîche
- 4 tbsp of freshly chopped chives
- 3 tbsp of olive oil
- 2 tbsp of pine nuts
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- Salt and pepper
Method
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- Cook the pasta until al dente, drain and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
- Slice the spring onions and the mushrooms.
- Heat a large frying pan on dry heat and add the pine nuts. Fry until lightly toasted and then remove from the pan and set aside.
- Pour the olive oil into the pan and heat.
- Add the spring onions and the mushrooms, season with salt and pepper and fry for about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the lemon juice and lemon zest and cook for a further 3 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and mix together with the pasta. Leave to cool.
- Finally stir in the pine nuts, chopped chives and the crème fraîche.
- Check the seasoning and then serve.
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