Pasta with Porcini

Here is a quick and easy dish I made last week.

What you need

• Dried Porcini mushrooms, ca 15-20g
• Dry white wine
• Sour cream
• Pasta , e.g. rigatoni. But better still, tagliatelle 
• Parsley
• Olive oil
• Salt, Pepper for seasoning
• 1 Garlic, 1 small onion
• sour cream
• parmesan cheese

Equipment: small bowl, pot (for the pasta) sieve, frying pan

How you do it

Prepare the mushrooms

• take the small bowl and put the dried porcini in it. Pour white wine over it until it is covered.
• Leave for at least 2 hours.

Next start putting the pasta on the boil

• put 2 teaspoons of salt into the pot and fill with water.
• bring to boil and put the pasta in.
• when pasta is al dente (i.e. is not overly soft), pour the hot water/pasta through a sieve.
• At that stage you may want to preserve a cup of the hot pasta water for later.
• give the pasta in the sieve a good stir - otherwise it may glue together.
• store the pasta for later

Finally, the sauce

• chop garlic, onions.
• clean/wash and chop the parsley
• grate the parmesan - and store for later
• put a tablespoon of olive oil in the frying pan and heat up.
• put the garlic and onions - and half of the parsley into the hot oil/frying pan - and sautee the onions/garlic
• add salt and pepper
• now put the Porcini mushrooms together with the white wine into the frying pan.
• let it boil until the sauce starts to thicken. then put a tablespoon of sour cream to it and stir again.
• you may also want to put a little of the hot pasta water to it
• let it cook until the sauce thickens again (stir while doing so).
• now add the pasta and mix with the sauce
• add the rest of the parsley to it
• add the grated parmesan
• continue to stir until the parmesan starts to melt

Serve straightaway.