Okay, okay so it's truffle. I swore I'd never put anything that was weird or pretentious here, but I simply couldn't resist - and the reason is that it's delicious. I don't mean that kind of Madagascan-lemur-kidney oh gosh it's so rare it must be good tasty, but really great. Truffles are expensive because they are freakin' AWESOME. Ahem.
Okay, rationalization aside, here's the recipe.
You'll need:
200g fettucini
150ml cream
150g mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 clove crushed garlic
25ml truffle oil (get the good stuff, with truffle bits floating in it)
10g butter
good handful of Parmesan
olive oil
In a frypan, get the butter frothing with a couple of glugs of the olive oil. Toss in the mushrooms and cook until very tender and rich. Set aside in a warm place. Meanwhile, cook your pasta.
When the pasta's done (saving a bit of the cooking water), put the cream, garlic and truffle oil in the pan and bring to a simmer. Grate your Parmesan into the simmering mixture until you get a lovely creamy sauce. Season.
Add the pasta and mushrooms, and toss until coated. Add a couple of glugs of the cooking oil to keep it from getting too gluey. Serves 2. A very happy 2.
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