Easy, Italian-style recipe: Sun-dried Tomato and Mushroom Pasta in a Garlic and Basil Cream Sauce. Enjoy this meatless pasta as is, or serve it with grilled chicken or grilled veggies!
If you're looking for a delicious and easy-to-make pasta recipe to add to your weekly/monthly recipe rotation, try this sun-dried tomato and mushroom pasta in a garlic and basil creamy sauce. The combination of flavors in this dish is SO GOOD, it's pure comfort food that you will be tempted to eat right out of the pan:
The fettuccine pasta is tossed with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, mushrooms, and basil in a very tasty, creamy and velvety sauce.
This Italian-inspired dish is great served with garlic bread on the side. And a big fresh salad. And please, don't forget about a glass of wine.
I've been eating the leftovers for 3 days now, and the pasta + the sauce still taste just great! The pasta is best reheated in a pan, on medium heat, with a little bit of milk added gradually to thin the sauce as it gets reheated.
This delicious, meatless pasta dish is TOTALLY WORTH making it!
Sun-dried tomato and mushroom pasta in a garlic and basil sauce
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 oz mushrooms sliced
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 3.5 oz sun-dried tomatoes diced
- 2 chicken bouillon cubes (use Vegetarian "Chicken" Bouillon for vegetarian version)
- 2 cups water
- ½ cup half and half
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup Parmesan cheese shredded
- 1 tablespoon dried basil or up to 2 tablespoons minced fresh basil
- ½ lb fettuccine pasta
Instructions
- Heat olive oil on medium-high heat, add sliced mushrooms and garlic - and cook the vegetables for about 3 minutes. Add diced sun-dried tomatoes. Reduce heat.
- Dissolve 2 cubes of chicken bouillon in 2 cups of boiling water. Carefully add the broth to the skillet - continue to cook the vegetables in a chicken broth on medium heat until the mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes absorb some of the broth and the broth reduces somewhat. Add half and half, heavy cream and bring to boil just for a short moment. Add Parmesan cheese and cook the sauce, stirring, for a couple of minutes, on low-medium heat until the cheese melts. Add the basil.
- If your sauce is too thick at this point - add another ½ cup half and half. If your sauce looks thin to you - do not continue simmering the sauce to thicken it as you will be adding pasta shortly (in the next step) - and pasta will absorb some of the sauce liquid. Even if the sauce looks thin now, it will not be so thin once you add pasta.
- Cook fettuccine al dente according to the package instruction. Drain and rinse in cold water (this will stop the cooking). Add the fettuccine into the sauce and continue cooking the sauce with the pasta in it, on medium heat, for a couple of minutes (or more - to achieve the desired thickness) stirring constantly to coat well.
- Note: do not add salt to the creamy sauce because it should already be salty enough from the dissolved chicken cubes. Only in the very end when the sauce is done, you may add some salt if needed.
Notes
Nutrition
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We love this dish! My family of five enjoys it even though they claim to not like mushrooms. This is on our “meals everyone likes” list, and that’s very hard with five picky eaters.
Karen, your comment made my day and made me smile at the same time! :). So glad your family enjoys this recipe, and thank you for taking the time to share such a heart-warming comment.
Hi Julia
My daughter found this recipe by accident. She loves sun dried tomatoes and we tried this and wow! What a dish! Easy and awesome. Thank you for this recipe. We are vegetarians and this was perfect. Hopefully we will find more such awesome recipes here
Kavita, yours is one of the best comments I have ever run across on my website! I am glad your daughter found this recipe and glad it was a success!
Can i use just half and half instead of heavy cream and sundried tomato in a jar with oil (that is all i have)
Yes, you can use half-and-half and sun-dried tomatoes in oil (make sure to drain most of the oil from the tomatoes).
Made exactly as directed. This one’s a keeper. I wanted to post a photo but don’t see a way to do that!
Nancy, I am glad the recipe was a success. Thank you so much for the comment! 🙂
Hi! This recipe is great! I used edamame pasta and diary alternatives and added tandoori seasoning and crushed red pepper. Delicious! Thank you for sharing.
I am glad you gave this recipe a try and enjoyed it! Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback! 🙂
A favorite in our house! My husband was raised in Italy and he loves this dish! And our picky eater (adult son) absolutely loves this! I have to double the recipe to feed 4 people!
Ann, that's the ultimate compliment to me - an Italian guy loves this dish! 🙂 So glad you've enjoyed this recipe!
This dish looks amazing and I will be making it this week! I would very much recommend amending the recipe to include preparing the broth and especially the pasta beforehand. I've been cooking for a long time and no doubt I will do these in advance of making the rest of the recipe, but for inexperienced cooks this will add a lot of time in between and the dish may not turn out so well.
Ethan, you make great points. I will update the recipe accordingly.
I am so sorry to say, but, this recipe made the worst pasta dish I have ever cooked in my life (I am 73 years old). I threw it all in the trash. I could not even feed it to the bears. Actually, I do not feed bears…bad idea! It may have been fine without the chicken bouillon, plus additional cream. Perhaps I made an error when cooking, considering the rave reviews from everyone else. Oh well. The single star is for the kindness of the thought. Thank you, anyhow… and thank you for everyone who loved it. I am still doolallified.
Thank you so much for a 1-star review (for the kindness of the thought) - how generous of you, in a true holiday spirit!
On the other hand, I understand your frustration, because a small number of people do have an issue with this kind of sauce - usually, the issue is that the sauce separates or clumps up. In that case, I provide tips on how to prevent these issues next time they make this recipe. You do not really mention what exactly you did not like about this recipe. Was it a flavor, dislike of sun-dried tomatoes, a texture issue, or something else?
One of my favorite recipes. Easy and delicious!!
Marta, your comment made my day - thank you!
First time I’ve made a cream pasta sauce and it turned out well! I doubled the amount of mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, basil and used about 3/4 lb of pasta; so there is a wide latitude in the ingredients list (i.e. it’s not a fussy recipe.). This recipe will be my starting point for creamy pasta sauce in the future. Thanks so much!
Jim, your comment made my day! I am so happy to read you found my recipe helpful and that it turned out well for you! 🙂
What do you mean with half and half? Many thanks.
Half-and-half is a US milk product (half milk, half cream). You can use heavy cream instead. Or, to make 1 cup of half-and-half, combine 1/2 cup of milk + 1/2 cup of heavy cream.
Do you use sun dried tomatoes in oil , or just the dry ones? Thank you
For this recipe, I used dry sun-dried tomatoes from the bag, not the sun-dried tomatoes in oil from the jar.
This recipe was amazing ! Bursting with flavor ! I substitute Asiago cheese in place of Parmesan ! Will definitely make again !
Brenda, I am so glad the recipe was enjoyed! Love Asiago cheese - what a great choice!
I saw this posted on Facebook and sounds good, I"m going to make this for my church lunch but have to make totally vegan, so I"m using the vegetarian chicken bullion, non dairy half&half, nondairy Parmesan cheese and having to make cashew cream instead of the heavy cream.
I will re-post after I have made this and let you know it turned out keeping my fingers crossed.
Seems like you have it all handled! Thank you so much for this detailed feedback - it will be really helpful for other readers, too!
Made this for the first time today - very easy and very tasty. It was a definite hit in our house - thanks for sharing.
Kate, I am so glad you gave this recipe a try and that it was a success. Thank you for taking the time to share such a positive comment - it means a lot and I appreciate it! 🙂
Tried this recipe several times & have never been disappointed. Very easy to follow & very delicious.Thank you for sharing with us.
Kay, I am so happy to hear that! Thank you for taking the time to share such a positive comment - I appreciate it!!
loved this recipe! had a similar dish at a restaurant and was so glad i got to replicate it
I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe. Thank you for the comment and the 5-star review! 🙂
This is delicious and easy. Followed the recipe and it turned out great.
Jennifer, so glad you liked it! Thank you for stopping by and sharing such a positive comment! 🙂