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5 from 16 votes
By Hank Shaw
August 01, 2022
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This is a fun, easy, summertime recipe for chanterelle pasta: any sort of pasta tossed with with chanterelle mushrooms, sweet corn, cherry tomatoes and basil. You could use other mushrooms, too, found or bought.
Most of the United States sees their chanterelle flush in summer, unlike us here in California and the Pacific Northwest, so it’s only natural to pair these pretty, golden mushrooms with the bounty of a summer garden.
To that end, use this recipe as a guide, not dogma. The idea is fresh chanterelle mushrooms tossed with pasta and perfectly ripe vegetables and herbs from your garden or farmer’s market or supermarket.
I went with a yellow theme because chanterelles are yellow-orange: Yellow sweet corn, yellow cherry tomatoes, and a yellow bell pepper… oh yeah, and I snuck in a yellow datil pepper in there, too, because I like it hot.
The pasta in this chanterelle pasta is orecchiette, a hat-shaped pasta that holds sauce and small ingredients well. I’d definitely go with short pasta here because this recipe is every bit as good at room temperature as it is warm, and short pasta makes a better pasta salad.
Fresh chanterelles, or their cousins the cinnabars, or their northern, cool-weather cousins the yellowfoot chanterelles, will all work. You can find them in a forest near you, or in farmer’s markets and fancy supermarkets.
If that’s not an option, you can absolutely make this dish with pickled chanterelles. (Chanterelles don’t dry well, so don’t use them.)
No chanterelles? No worries. Use shiitake, cremini or another smallish fresh mushroom. Lobster mushrooms are a good option, as are meadow mushrooms or hedgehogs. Hell, we still get morels in the high country in summer, so if you got ’em, use ’em. (Another recipe you can use with a wide variety of foraged or store-bought mushrooms is creamy mushrooms on toast.)
Again, think pasta salad. Sauté the chanterelles with minced onions and garlic, then add the other ingredients at the last minute, to just barely cook them. Toss in the basil when you mix everything with the pasta, and bang, yer done.
Simple. Easy. Tasty, and great for a hot evening. Leftovers are great cold as lunch the next day.
Looking for more chanterelle recipes besides chanterelle pasta? I make a mean chanterelle risotto, and an even better chanterelle soup.
5 from 16 votes
Chanterelle Pasta
Use this recipe as a guide, not gospel. The idea is to make a nice pasta salad that you eat warm at first, then at room temperature if you have leftovers. Other mushrooms will work if you don't have chanterelles.
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Course: Appetizer, lunch, Main Course, Pasta
Cuisine: American, Italian
Servings: 4 servings
Author: Hank Shaw
Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh chanterelle mushrooms, cleaned and torn into small pieces
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt
- 1 medium yellow onion, minced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, diced
- 1 small hot pepper, minced (optional)
- 1/2 pound cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 cup corn kernels
- 1/2 cup feta or cotija cheese, crumbled
- 1/2 cup fresh basil, torn into pieces
- 1 pound short pasta, orecchiette, farfalle, penne, etc.
- A splash of vinegar or lemon juice
Instructions
Get a large pot of water hot, then salt it well. When it's boiling, add the pasta.
Put the mushrooms in a large sauté pan and turn the heat to high. Toss them as they heat up — they'll squeak — and they'll soon release their water. When that happens, add the onion and garlic and some salt and toss to combine.
Add the olive oil and toss to combine. Let this sauté for about 3 minutes, tossing or stirring often. Add the peppers, cherry tomatoes, and corn and mix well. Cook for a minute or two, the add the basil and cheese and turn off the heat.
Drain the pasta well, and if you want, toss it with a little more olive oil. Mix with the contents of the pan, and serve. Splash a little vinegar or lemon juice over everything right as you serve.
Nutrition
Calories: 643kcal | Carbohydrates: 101g | Protein: 21g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 240mg | Potassium: 1116mg | Fiber: 9g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 682IU | Vitamin C: 87mg | Calcium: 159mg | Iron: 6mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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