ALFREDO SPAGHETTI WITH SHRIMPS AND MUSHROOMS

ALFREDO SPAGHETTI WITH SHRIMPS  AND MUSHROOMS

INGREDIENTS

spaghetti 32 oz

i used whole wheat spaghetti

Butter 1/2  cup ( 1 stick)

Milk 11/2 cup

Cream cheese 8 oz ( 1 pck)

Mushroom 8 oz chopped

Shrimps deveined and tail out 16 oz

basil leaves  1 tsp

Garlic cloves 3-4

salt

white pepper 1 teaspoon

METHOD

Alfedo sauce 

1. Melt butter and cream cheese together in a sauce pan . Keep stirring

2. Add milk and bring to boil. 

3. simmer and cook till creamy and then add salt,pepper and basil leaves and garlic

For Pasta

1. Boil spaghetti as per package instructions and keep it el dente. 

2. Drain spaghetti and preserve half cup water in a cup. 

3. In a pan stir fry  shrimps and mushrooms for 3-4 minutes separately.

4. Add mushrooms and shrimps to pasta.

5. Add the sauce to pasta and mix and cook for 3-5 minutes more. 

Yummy Alfredo Spaghetti with shrimps ready to relish. 

Mushroom Manchurian

Take all the ingredients for making the batter in a bowl.

Ingredients for batter are – 

1 cup all purpose flour/maida, 3 tbsp cornflour, 1 tsp ginger garlic paste, ½ tsp black pepper powder or freshly crushed black pepper, 1 tsp soya sauce and salt & sugar as required

2: Add ¾ cup water and make a smooth batter. not too thick nor too thin.

3: Rinse, wipe and halve the mushrooms (200-250 gms button mushrooms).

4: Dip the mushroom in the batter.

5: Heat oil for shallow frying or deep frying. once the oil is moderately hot, then deep or shallow fry the mushrooms.

6: Once the mushrooms are golden browned, remove and keep them aside.

7: Heat oil in another pan or remove the extra oil from the pan in which we fried the mushrooms. add spring onions and stir fry them for a minute.

8: Add 2-3 chopped green chilies, 1 tsp finely chopped celery, 2 tsp garlic, 2 tsp ginger and some of the spring onion greens. stir fry for a minute.

9: Add bell pepper/capsicum (1 medium size green sliced, diced or chopped).

10: Stir fry till the capsicum gets cooked a little but still retains its crunchiness.

11: Finally add salt, sugar, 1 tbsp soy sauce and ½ tsp black pepper powder or crushed black pepper

12: Stir fry and mix well.

13: Add the fried mushrooms.

14: Stir fry and mix well so that the sauce coats the mushrooms.

15: Remove and serve mushroom manchurian hot garnished with some spring onion greens and/or celery…. enjoy