Fettuccine with Mushrooms, Tarragon, and Goat-Cheese Sauce

Name: Fettuccine with Mushrooms, Tarragon, and Goat-Cheese Sauce
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp butter; 340 grams fettuccine; 2 Tbsps chopped fresh tarragon, or 2 teaspoons dried tarragon; 227 grams mild goat cheese; 0 teaspoons fresh-ground black pepper; 79 milliliters milk; 454 grams mushrooms, cut into thin slices; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 79 milliliters grated Parmesan, plus more for serving; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 Tbsps chopped fresh chives or scallion tops

Fettuccine with Mushrooms, Tarragon, and Goat-Cheese Sauce might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 28% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 31g of protein, 29g of fat, and a total of 645 calories. If you have olive oil, scallion tops, mild goat cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a large frying pan, melt the butter with 1 tablespoon of the oil over high heat.

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Butter

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Add the mushrooms, 1/2 teaspoon of the salt, the pepper, and the dried tarragon, if using, and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes. Reduce the heat to moderately high and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are golden brown and no liquid remains in the pan, about 5 minutes.

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Dried Tarragon

Mushrooms

Pepper

Salt

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Frying Pan

In a small bowl, combine the goat cheese, Parmesan, milk, and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt. Stir until smooth.

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Goat Cheese

Parmesan

Milk

Salt

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Bowl

Meanwhile, in a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the fettuccine until just done, about 12 minutes. Reserve 1 1/2 cups of the pasta-cooking water and drain.

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Fettuccine

Pasta

Water

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Pot

Whisk 1 cup of the pasta-cooking water into the goat-cheese mixture. Toss the pasta with the mushrooms, the goat-cheese sauce, the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1 tablespoon olive oil, the fresh tarragon, if using, and the chives. If the pasta seems dry, add more of the reserved pasta-cooking water.

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Fresh Tarragon

Cheese Sauce

Mushrooms

Olive Oil

Cheese

Chives

Pasta

Water

Salt

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Whisk

Serve with additional Parmesan.

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Parmesan

Variation: Use fresh basil instead of or in addition to the tarragon and chives in the recipe.

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Fresh Basil

Tarragon

Chives

Wine Recommendation: Dolcetto, while beloved in Piedmont, is less appreciated in the United States. Yet its light tannins, cherry fruit, and clean, dry finish are just the ticket to balance the full flavor of the cheeses here.

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