Creamy, unctuous, comforting and tasty!
Serves 5-6
Costs £6.00-£6.50 depending on what you use
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!
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
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