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Recipe: Creamed Mushroom and Pastrami Pasta
Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 15 min.
Cooking Time: 15 min.
 
Ingredients:
  • 1 Lbs. fusilli or other curly pasta
  • 3/4 oz. unsalted butter
  • 1 Tbs. olive oil
  • 2 clove garlic, crushed
  • 4 green shallot, sliced
  • 1 red pepper, sliced
  • 1/2 Lbs. baby mushrooms, halved
  • 1 chicken stock cube, crumbled
  • 2 tsp. cornflour
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • 1/4 tsp. dried marjoram leaves
  • 1/3 Lbs. sliced pastrami
  • 1/2 cup cream
Cooking Directions:
Cook pasta in a large pan of boiling water 10 minutes, or until al dente. Drain. Melt butter and oil in a heavy nonstick pan over medium high heat. Add garlic and cook 1 minute, stirring. Add next 3 ingredients and stir over heat 2 minutes. Blend stock cube and cornflour with 2 Tbs. of the water in bowl. Stir in remaining water, wine and marjoram. Stir cornflour mixture into vegetable mixture. Stir until sauce boils and thickens. Combine warm sauce, pastrami, cream and noodles in pan and stir until heated through.
 
Per Serving: calories 497, fat 14.6g, calories from fat 26%, protein 16.5g, cholesterol 46.5mg, dietary fiber 2.9g

Nutrients Exchanges
Calories 497 Milk Exchanges 0.1
Protein 16.5g Vegetable Exchanges 0.5
Carbohydrates 69.6g Fruit Exchanges 0.0
Dietary Fiber 2.9g Bread Exchanges 4.3
Sugar 4.4g Other Carbohydrates/Sugar Exchanges 0.0
Fat Total 14.6g Lean Meat Exchanges 0.0
Saturated Fat 7.5g Very Lean Meat/Protein Exchanges 0.6
Mono-unsaturated Fat 5.5g Fat Exchanges 3.0
Poly-unsaturated Fat 1.6g
% Calories from Fat 26%    
Cholesterol 46.5mg
Sodium 432.9mg
Vitamins Minerals
Vitamin A 156.8IU Calcium 45.6mg
Thiamin (B1) 1.5mg Copper 1.0mg
Riboflavin (B2) 0.8mg Iron 4.6mg
Niacin (B3) 9.0mg Magnesium 53.1mg
Vitamin B6 0.6mg Manganese 0.9mg
Vitamin B12 0.1mcg Phosphorus 218.7mg
Vitamin C 23.8mg Potassium 428.1mg
Vitamin E 1.1IU Selenium 58.5mcg
Folate 25.4mcg Sodium 432.9mg
Pantothenic Acid 1.4mg Zinc 2.1mg