Tortellini with porcini mushrooms and blue cheese

Instead of cooking a tomato sauce, you can prepare this recipe with the tasty liquid that you get when you soak the porcini mushrooms.

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Ingredients for 4 servings

– 500g tortellini with cheese

– 150-200g dried porcini mushrooms

– 2 gloves of garlic

– 200g blue cheese

– 100g ground walnuts

– 10-15 basil leaves

– salt, pepper, olive oil

 

1.

Start by soaking the dry porcini in a bowl for at least 5 minutes. The mushrooms will colour the water brown. Don’t throw away that water.

 

2.

Start boiling the pasta in salted water.

 

3.

Heat some olive oil in a pan and add the finely chopped garlic cloves and then the mushrooms. When the garlic turns more transparent, add some of the water where the porcini soaked in.

 

4.

2-3 minutes before the tortellini are done, add the blue cheese and let it melt into the sauce.

 

5.

The cheese will seem to disappear but it actually blends in very nicely.

 

6.

Coarsely grind the walnuts and add them into the sauce.

 

7.

Add the basil leaves just before draining the pasta.

 

8.

Add the tortellini into the saucepan and stir. Your dish is ready and you really don’t have to serve with more cheese.

 

Here is a video version of this recipe:

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