Home cooked vegetarian food recipe - Pasta with fresh button mushrooms in home made tomato sauce

Here is another vegetarian cooking recipe for our yoga retreats guests here in Langkawi.

Pasta with fresh button mushrooms in home made tomato sauce (serve 2-3 people)

500 grams of fresh button mushrooms, sliced

3-4 ripe tomatoes, cut into chunks

About 20 cherry tomatoes

4-5 tablespoons home made tomato sauce (Click here for the recipe)

1 medium size onion, chopped finely

1 small red or green chilly, remove seeds and chopped coarsely (optional)

3 cloves of garlic, chopped coarsely

Some dried herbs - Italian Mixed Herbs or Basil

Black pepper & salt to taste

A bit of cooking oil

A bit of butter

A bit of olive oil

Pasta - Penne or Spaghetti

Boiling water to cook pasta

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Cook the pasta in hot boiling water with a bit of cooking oil and salt until the preferred texture. Drained and keep warm.

Heat up the pot or the non-stick wok in medium heat.

Add some cooking oil and butter. Add in onion, stir well until slightly soften, and then add chopped garlic and chillies. Stir evenly until the onion browned and fragrant.

Add sliced button mushrooms, black pepper and a bit of salt. Stir well until fragrant and slightly changed colour.

Add the tomatoes chunks. Cooked for about 1 minute.

Add 4-5 tablespoons of homemade tomato sauce, a bit of water, dried herbs, salt and black pepper to taste.

Add the cherry tomatoes and some olive oil.

Stir evenly until the sauce thicken.

Remove from the heat.

You can either serve the pasta and the sauce separately, or mix the pasta into the sauce just before removing the sauce from the heat.

Bon Appétit!