Saturday, April 17, 2010

Pasta with Apple and Oyser Mushrooms

I walked down to the Rittenhouse square farmer's market this morning as part of my attempt to jump back into cooking.

I found an excellent selection of mushrooms and threw together this delicious pasta dish.

Ingredients:

1 cup oyster mushrooms, washed and broken into large bites
1 cup shitake mushrooms, washed and broken into large bites
1/2 large cortland apple with skin, cut into half-inch pieces
2 cups freshly cooked pasta (I like Barilla Plus)
olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

To prepare:

1. Lightly coat a medium frying pan with olive oil over medium heat.
2. Add the mushrooms and toss lightly until coated, add salt and pepper to taste, cook, covered, for 3-5 minutes.
3. Lower the heat and add the apple, recover and cook for about 2 minutes until the apple are just blanched.
4. Add the pasta and drizzle with olive oil. Season to taste.