Week Night Winners

Garlic Mushroom Pasta

Ingredients

  • Serves 4
  • 1 onion sliced (white or red!)
  • 2 -4 cloves crushed garlic (More the merrier for me!)
  • 300g mushrooms (Any type! When feeling fancy I use mix of mushrooms) sliced.
  • 200g frozen peas
  • 400ml Vegetable stock
  • Pasta (we like spaghetti but any type and as mush as you want)
  • 50g vegan yoghurt or vegan cream cheese (I like Oatly but any will work)

Method

  • Boil your water for the pasta
  • In another pan add a tablespoon of olive oil and heat. Then add your sliced onions.
  • Soften the onions on a medium heat until they start to colour, then add in the garlic and sauté for 2 minutes.
  • Add in the mushrooms and cook on a medium heat until they start to soften.
  • Add in the frozen peas and vegetable stock.
  • Add the pasta to the boiling water.
  • Leave the vegetables to simmer without a lid to reduce the liquid whilst the pasta cooks.
  • Drain your pasta and turn the heat of the vegetable mix.
  • Add in your yoghurt or cream cheese to the vegetable mix and stir through until combined.
  • Then toss int he drained pasta mix and serve!

Tips and cheats

This is the one dinner my kids would eat every night if I let them, it is one of our firm favourites no matter what time of year. If you want to jazz it up for guests then use cream cheese, fancy mushrooms like shitake and oyster alongside normal white mushrooms anything works! Add as much of as little garlic as you like, I like more but others may not. I also like to finish off my pasta with a generous sprinkle of M&S vegan parmesan cheese. This is bowl of comfort and happiness, it is quick easy and can be cheap to make. If you have no vegan yoghurt then before you add the peas take 2 tablespoons of the mushrooms and onion mix and blend to a cream; add this little mix at the end like the yoghurt and it will make your pasta creamy! Enjoy!!

Soups and lunches · Week Night Winners

Lemon Pasta

Ingredients

  • 200g dried pasta
  • 4 tbsp lemon juice
  • Zest of 1 large lemon
  • 4tbsp grated Violife Prosociano Wedge (or vegan Parmesan) (a little extra for presentation)
  • 1.5tsp dried mixed herbs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 5 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 200g chestnut mushrooms sliced
  • 200g tender stem broccoli chopped into 1 inch chunks

Method

  • Boil the kettle.
  • Place the dried pasta in a large pan with a pinch of salt and cover with boiling water. Cook until tender or as packet suggests.
  • In a frying pan fry off the mushrooms then remove from the stoves. In the same pan add the broccoli and fry for a few minutes. Then add in a cup of boiling water and pop on a lid. Cook for a further 3 minutes until just cooked.
  • Drain the broccoli and put with the mushrooms on one side.
  • Meanwhile in a large jar add all of the other ingredients with 1 cup of the water the pasta was cooked in.
  • Pop the lid on the jar and give it a good shake!
  • Drain the pasta and return to the pan, add in the veggies and the contents of the jam jar.
  • Heat for a few minutes to bring it all up to temperature and then serve with a little more cheese on top and some nice crunchy salad.

Tips and cheats

I love this dish it is so light and its actually even better the next day cold for lunch like a pasta salad! You can add in any veggies you like but in this house mushrooms and broccoli rule. Its also a great dish in our camper van as it can be cooked on 2 gas hobs with limited pans!