Mushroom Fusilli With Three Cheese Sauce

Creamy, unctuous, comforting and tasty!

Serves 5-6

Costs £6.00-£6.50 depending on what you use

The music is from the album Grow

This isn't the cheapest dish on the site, but at about £1 per person, it's not too bad!

It's quite simple to make, and rewards you with a dish that is comforting, creamy and tastes like it cost a lot more than you spent!

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INGREDIENTS

1 onion - 10p

150g mushrooms - 45p

1/2 tub of Ricotta - 65p

tub of blue cheese - £2.50

90g Grana Padano cheese - 90p

glug of white wine - if you have it - 20p

fusilli - 85p

parsley - 40p

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METHOD

• Top, peel and finely chop the onion

• Slice the mushrooms to about a coin's thickness (modern pound coin, not a doubloon)

• Finely chop the parsley

• Grate the padano (or parmesan if you're going that way)

• Grate nutmeg - or use grated nutmeg

• Pop it in a jug and add the ricotta and blue cheese

• Mix it around to a paste

• Heat up olive oil and a good lump of butter in a pan

• Add some pepper

• Add the onions and cook till soft - 10mins

• Add the mushrooms and a glug of white wine

• Cook down for 10 minutes

• Bring salted water to the boil

• Pop in the fusilli and cook (at 80ºC) for the required time

• Meanwhile, add parsley to the mushrooms

• Add a couple of ladles of pasta water and stir through

• Cook this down while the pasta cooks

• Drain the pasta and return it to the pot - we're not putting this in the frying pan due to the physics of volume...

• Add the mushroom mix and stir through

• Add the cheese mix and stir through till everything is coated in creamy goodness

• Boom

• If you fancy it, top with fried breadcrumbs

The music is from the album Grow

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