Homemade pasta with mushrooms and cream cheese sauce

Making homemade pasta can be such a fun family or couple project to do. Kids will love turning the wheel of the pasta maker and for couples there is something so romantic about cooking together.
This recipe is for an easy and delicious sauce for topping any pasta, but taste extra good with homemade pasta.

Serves 4

Pasta  (in this picture it is home made from Jamie Oliver’s recipe, where we used 1 egg + 100g flour per person. Get recipe here.)

500g mushrooms sliced
300g Lactofree Soft White Cheese
2 big handfuls of chopped parsley
2 cloves of garlic pressed (can be left out)
150-250ml of pasta water (water that has been strained from the pasta after cooking)
salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste.
Olive oil

Put the pasta in a pot of boiling salted water to cook.

While the pasta is cooking, sauté the mushrooms in a little bit of oil until they start to brown, then take the pan of the heat and wait till the pasta is done.

Strain the pasta, keeping some of the water for the sauce.

Put the pan of mushrooms back on the heat and add the pressed garlic and sauté for a minute, then add the soft white cheese and some of the pasta water and let it all melts together and cook for a few minutes (adding more pasta water if needed) until you get a creamy sauce that is a bit on the runny side, so the pasta has something to soak up.

Add salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste (the pasta water will have added some salt, so taste before adding spices), and then turn in the pasta and parsley in the sauce.

Hey presto, dinner is served.