Easy Vegan Pasta with Garlic and Mushrooms
This easy vegan pasta is a delight to make and certainly to eat! It’s wildly flavorful and comes together in under 30 minutes. Filled with delicious ingredients like garlic, capers and olives along with king oyster mushrooms, it will quickly become your go to meal. This pasta with garlic and mushrooms a keeper!
I am what you’d call a pastatarian; we LOVE pasta in our house 🙂 And I especially love finding unique shapes and flavors. Today, we’re using this beautiful buckwheat tortiglioni. Pasta that are little tubes with ridges making it perfecto hold on to flavors. To let the pasta shine, the sauce is simple; a little vegan butter (to add richness to an otherwise light sauce) garlic, basil, olives and capers. Bright and fresh.
As if that isn’t enough, to up the ante, added in are King Oyster mushrooms; probably my most favorite kind of mushrooms! It’s hearty and sturdy yet so tender and luscious when cooked. The mushrooms also soak up all the flavors from the aromatics, it’s divine!
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What you need to make this easy vegan pasta
A good quality pasta – you can use any kind. I’ve used buckwheat tortiglioni in this recipe
Vegan butter – There are several plant based butters available in the market, A couple of brands that I like are melt butter and miyokos. These are not sponsors, I am just sharing my favorites.
Flavor adds – dried basil, red chilli flakes, capers
Green olives – I’ve pimento chili stuffed, but you could use any type you like. The olives add that brininess that pairs so well with capers and mushrooms
King oyster mushrooms – these add so much texture and flavor to this easy vegan pasta
Vegan parmesan cheese – this is optional, but the combination of garlic butter pasta and this salty cheese is divine. I highly recommend adding it.
Fresh microgreens for topping – I used a mix of micro kale, arugula and cilantro to add on top. It brings so much freshness
Cooking with King Oyster Mushrooms for this Easy Pasta with Garlic
If you’re not a fan of mushrooms, the king oyster mushrooms are a great way to start! They don’t have a strong mushroom-y taste, they’re wholesome to bite into, juicy, quick to cook, and become really crispy. All wins in my book! A simple pan crisped mushroom with a sauce that you will make on repeat and eat with everything.
How to make this easy vegan pasta with garlic butter mushrooms
Prep the pasta first by dropping it in well salted boiling water. Cook per package instructions. While the pasta cooks, let’s make our sauce. Melt some butter and fry garlic, basil, chilli flakes and capers in it. Once the garlic is golden, cook the mushrooms and olives all together. The mushrooms will take only about 5-6 minutes to soften.
From the boiling pasta, measure out some pasta water and pour into the garlic butter mushroom mixture. This will add so much flavor and creaminess when it’s combined with the butter in the pan. It’s really that simple. Then finish it off with some vegan parmesan cheese and more pasta water! Keep stirring this until you have a creamy emulsified sauce. Toss in the cooked pasta, top with fresh greens and done!
If you like this recipe, also check out
Delicious Vegan Pesto Pasta with Crispy Mushrooms
Incredible Mediterranean Pilaf Bowl
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6 comments
Looks good
Thank you!
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Look’s so appetizing. Thanks for the recipe.
Such a very creative recipe! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Glad you like it.