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!

Home cooked vegetarian food recipe - Oven Roasted Portobello or Button Mushrooms

Here is another vegetarian dish that sometimes we prepare for our yoga retreats guests here in Langkawi.

Oven Roasted Portobello or Button Mushrooms (serves 4 people)

4 big Portobello mushrooms, or 500 grams of button mushrooms or brown mushrooms

About 2 tablespoons of olive oil

4-6 cloves of whole garlic, peeled and lightly pounded

Salt and black pepper

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Rinse the mushrooms and drain off any excess water.

Put the Portobello mushrooms into an oven dish, with the stem facing up and cross cut the stem a bit.

Mix the garlic into the olive oil. And spread the garlic olive oil over the mushrooms. and sprinkle some salt and pepper over them. Sprinkle more olive oil if prefer.

If using button or brown mushrooms, then put them into a bowl. Mix them well with the garlic olive oil, salt and pepper. Then put them into the oven dish.

Put it into the oven cook for about 20 minutes (without preheat the oven) at 220 degrees Celsius.

Serve hot.

It is good to eat with some fresh mixed green salads, tomatoes, and potatoes dishes.

Bon Appétit!