Cheap family recipe for 4 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has olive oil, fennel bulb, onion, garlic cloves, red chillies, tomato puree, streaky bacon, fusilli, chestnut mushroom, parsley and parmesan.
Chestnut mushroom, fennel & bacon fusilli
Course: Cheap family
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Parmesan: parmesan, grated, to serve
- Olive Oil: 50ml olive oil, plus 1 tbsp
- Streaky Bacon: 250g pack streaky bacon, diced
- Onion: 2 onions, finely sliced
- Parsley: small pack parsley, roughly chopped, to serve
- Garlic Cloves: 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- Tomato Puree: 4 tbsp tomato puree
- Fusilli: 350g fusilli
- Fennel Bulb: 2 fennel bulbs, finely sliced
- Red Chillies: 2 red chillies, deseeded and finely sliced
- Chestnut Mushroom: 280g baby chestnut mushrooms, sliced
Directions
- Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large pan over a medium heat and fry the fennel and onion for 15 mins, or until softened. Add the garlic and chilli, and cook for 1 min, then add the tomato puree and stir for 1 min more. Toss in the bacon and fry for 5-6 mins.
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to pack instructions. Add the mushrooms to the frying pan, stir and cover for 8 mins, or until the mushrooms are soft.
- Drain the pasta, adding a ladle of the cooking water to the sauce. Tip in the pasta and stir to coat. Add the rest of the oil and scatter over the parsley and Parmesan.
