The evening meal is the one that decides whether a person keeps eating this way. If dinner feels like less than what they had before, they stop.
This is a real dinner. Mushrooms browned until they are deeply savory, a sauce made silky with oat milk instead of sour cream, wide noodles underneath. One step matters more than the rest, and it is in the method below.
Ingredients
The stroganoff
- 16 oz cremini mushrooms, sliced
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 Tbsp whole wheat flour (or 1 Tbsp arrowroot)
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
- 1 cup unsweetened plain oat milk
- 2 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 Tbsp tamari
- 1 tsp dried thyme (or 1 Tbsp fresh)
- Unprocessed salt (Himalayan, Celtic or Real Salt) and black pepper, to taste
To serve
- 12 oz egg-free fettuccine or pappardelle
- Fresh parsley, chopped
Method
- Put the pasta water on to boil and cook the noodles while you make the sauce. Drain them a minute early — they finish in the pan.
- Heat the olive oil in a wide skillet over medium. Cook the onion until soft and translucent, about five minutes.
- Add the mushrooms in a single layer and leave them alone. Let them brown before you stir. They will release their liquid, and you want that liquid to cook away entirely — eight to ten minutes. This is the step that makes the dish; rushing it gives you gray mushrooms and a thin sauce.
- Add the garlic and cook one minute more.
- Sprinkle the flour over and stir for a minute so it loses its raw taste.
- Pour in the broth, scraping the bottom of the pan. Add the oat milk, Dijon, tamari and thyme.
- Simmer eight to ten minutes, stirring now and then, until the sauce coats the back of a spoon. Taste and season.
- Add the drained noodles and toss until coated. Finish with parsley.
Notes
- Use a wide pan. Crowded mushrooms steam instead of browning, and a steamed mushroom never gets that savory depth back. If your pan is small, brown them in two batches.
- The oat milk must be plain and unsweetened. Vanilla or sweetened will be obvious in the sauce.
- The Dijon is what makes this read as stroganoff rather than mushroom pasta. Don’t reduce it.
- Cremini give a better flavor than white button mushrooms. A handful of dried porcini, soaked and chopped, goes further still — add the soaking liquid in place of some of the broth.
- It reheats well. Add a splash of broth in the pan, since the noodles drink the sauce overnight.
- Use unprocessed salt — Himalayan, Celtic sea salt or Real Salt. Standard table salt and most standard sea salt have been refined, and that processing matters more than the trace minerals people usually talk about.
Makes: Serves 4
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