Lemony Linguini in Mushroom Sauce

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Lemony Linguini in Mushroom Sauce
This a good and healthy recipe for all those who yearn to have the “white” sauce pasta and yet want to avoid the creamy fattiness of it – there have been many approaches to make a less fatty white sauce, however, every time we go out to eat and have desired Fettucini Alfredo or other white sauce pastas, you come back loaded in more ways than one – guilt being the strongest in my case – So taking the law (or in this case ) ladle in my own hand, I whipped up a lemony, zesty, linguini pasta with canned mushroom soup for the sauce. I used a cup of 1% milk and ½ cup of buttermilk to make the soup and add my lovely herbs and spices to it.  It is amazing what a little lemon and zest can do to another otherwise simple pasta – gives it the gourmet effect, if you know what I am saying :) Here goes!

Linguini Pasta
Ingredients
1 pack of linguini (serves 5-6 amply)
1 can of mushroom soup
1 cup of milk
½ cup of buttermilk
1 cup of chopped mushrooms
Zest of 1 lemon
1tbsp lemon juice
1 Sprig of basil (i used some dry basil as well)
1 crushed red chili (optional)
3 cloves of garlic
3 tsp of olive oil
Grated parmesan to top
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Preparation
Boil the linguini al dente with 1 tsp of olive oil and salt
In a saucepan, heat 2 tsp of olive oil. Crush garlic into it and add the diced mushrooms and sauté for a minute – if you want the red chili, now is a good time to crush it into the oil.
Add some salt to the mushrooms
Open your can of mushroom sauce and scoop contents into the saucepan
Add the milk and stir in the two together
After stirring the pot, add the buttermilk and mix it in well
Once the sauce is boiled, add the basil and keep closed
Now drain your linguini and set it back in the pot that you boiled it in
Add the sauce and mix in well.
Now your pasta is ready to be poured into your serving dish
Once poured, add the lemon juice and sprinkle the lemon zest and mix into the pasta
Top the pasta with grated parmesan and ground pepper either in the serving dish or on individual plates
Enjoy the experience J
Skills

Posted on

April 8, 2011

47 Comments

  1. Ila on April 8, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    looks yummy and delicious :) awesome :)

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  2. Suman Singh on April 8, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    I love pasta and this looks so inviting and delicious..love the idea of using lemon zest and juice..

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  3. Amritha Kalyani on April 8, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    linguini looks delicious and creamy.. yummm… i can finish the entire bowl.

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  4. S.Menaga on April 8, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    woww looks delicious…love this method of preparing..

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  5. yummychunklet on April 8, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    This looks delicious! I'll have to try it with some clams thrown in!

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  6. Swathi on April 8, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    Nice ctirusy mushromm pasta. like one pot meal.

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  14. Samyuktha on April 8, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    Made my birthday party even better!!! <3 :-)

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  16. Sneha Benny on April 8, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Delicious and yummy looking pasta.

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  18. Sensible Vegetarian on April 8, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    This looks so delicious. Had a very hectic week and dear looks like I have to catch up with so many of your interesting posts.

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  19. AMMU MOHAN on April 8, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    wonderful pasta..looks delicious……..

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  20. R on April 8, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    luv the sauce u have used for the pasta. delicious!

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  21. Pasta and Paratha on April 8, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    Love the use of mushrooms, have to confess I end up cooking Penne all the time as there are so many things one can do with it, but this pasta looks delicious ..

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  22. Vidhya on April 8, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    This look extremely yummy.

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  23. Cooks on April 9, 2011 at 12:55 am

    Yumm.. pasta looks perfect.

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  24. Nandini on April 9, 2011 at 2:09 am

    Linguini Looks creamy and inviting:)

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  25. Shanavi on April 9, 2011 at 3:15 am

    There's no limit for ur creative thought it seems.. Super …

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  27. savitha ramesh on April 9, 2011 at 3:34 am

    utterly delicious and awsome dih.love the pictures.

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  28. sojo on April 9, 2011 at 4:27 am

    Creamy, flavoury, yummy and guilt free!!! cOUNT ME IN!!!

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  31. Edible Art on April 9, 2011 at 6:54 am

    ooh wow very clever!
    & sounds better than any regular alfredo judging by the recipe ~

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  32. Edible Art on April 9, 2011 at 6:54 am

    ooh wow very clever!
    & sounds better than any regular alfredo judging by the recipe ~

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  33. Shobha on April 9, 2011 at 7:46 am

    Looks awesome… makes me hungry.
    Lovely clicks.

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  34. schmetterlingwords on April 9, 2011 at 9:12 am

    Wowww… This lemon mushroom sauce looks awesome… I can imagine how it wud taste… A nice sauce idea for pasta… great recipe Priya :-)

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  35. Priya on April 9, 2011 at 10:53 am

    Wat a wonderful looking pasta, love mushroom sauce with pastas,my daughter's fav..

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  36. Ambreen on April 9, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    Oh wow, amazing! looks so tempting. I just wish I could have this now!

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  37. Ramya on April 9, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    What a creamy n delicious pasta!!!
    Now that makes me hungry:-(

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  40. divya on April 9, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    Fantastic…irresistibly yumm..

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  43. Rosita Vargas on April 10, 2011 at 1:44 am

    Una pasta muy deliciosa con la salsa de limón,una delicia,cariños.

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  44. Plateful on April 10, 2011 at 10:38 am

    Ahhhh, that looks too scrumptious and irresistible!

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  45. Anna C on April 10, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    Priya, the pasta dish looks so luscious, it's making me hungry and it's not even lunchtime.

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  46. Priyanka Agrawal on April 10, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    loos good dear, i also tried pasta over the weekend but missed to tk a pic

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  47. cook from doha on April 11, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    loved this new version………..will try……….

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