Garlic Mushroom Pasta

Garlic Mushroom Pasta 

Original recipe from: http://www.food.com/recipe/pasta-with-mushroom-garlic-sauce-11808?scaleto=4.0&st=null&mode=metric

Servings: 4 - 6 

INGREDIENTS

450g pasta of your choice 

80g butter

10 cloves of garlic (minced) 

1400g mushroom of your choice 

2 teaspoons of dried basil 

1 teaspoon of salt

pepper

2 teaspoons of dried parsley

Parmesan cheese (grated) 

STEPS

1. Boil pasta. If you plan to reheat this again, don't boil till too long. 
2. Melt half of the butter in a pan. Add garlic and saute until brown and fragrant. 
3. Add in mushrooms and saute a little while. 
4. Add in all the seasonings and herbs.
5. Add in Parmesan cheese. 
6. Mix together with pasta. Serve.

This recipe is ridiculously simple but yet so delicious. It tastes really like outside restaurant style mushroom pasta.. just that it is a little too fattening for anyone who is on a diet. =/ 

Basic Garlic Olive Oil Pasta

Basic Garlic Olive Oil Pasta 

Created by me

1 serving 

INGREDIENTS

1 teaspoon of olive oil 38 cal 

50g fussili 178 cal 

36g prawn (2 large) 36 cal 

1 chicken hotdog 73 cal 

1 lime (extract juice) 2 cal 

3 cloves of minced garlic 12 cal 

little sea salt for seasoning 

dry chili (small chunks) 2 cal 

TOTAL CALORIES: 341 cal 

STEPS

1. Boil fussili till cooked. Strain water and put aside to be used later. 
2. Marinate prawns with lime juice. Cook on stove without oil till the colour turns red indicating cooked. Put a side on the plate. 
3. Make slit cuts to the hotdog to check whether it is thoroughly cooked. 
4. Heat olive oil in pan. Stir fry garlic and dry chili chunks together with hotdog. 
5. Put in fussili and continue to stir fry for a while. 
6. Place hotdog on the plate and dash a small pinch of salt for seasoning. 
7. Serve. 

All recipes can be adapted very easily according to calorie plus and minus. So basically this dish's hotdog can easily be replaced with real meat. I didn't have time to thaw the meat so I just used the hotdog for a quick choice. All I can say is - I love limes lately. They are so lovely in marinating meat. What's more, it is so low in calories! And it is free. Grandma's house has a lot.