Fresh tomato pasta with ham, cream and mushroom sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
375gramsFresh or packaged pasta
1cupSliced baby mushrooms
A little butter
4slicesLeg ham, chopped
1eachClove garlic, crushed
Chopped basil to taste
Butter
Salt and pepper
300millilitresCream
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Chopped parsley

Directions

SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN VOGUE WI

SAUCE

Cook pasta in boiling, salted water (2 minutes if fresh, 15 minutes if dried). Drain, return to saucepan and stir in some butter. To make sauce: saute mushrooms lightly in butter. Add ham, a little garlic, basil, salt and pepper; stir in cream and heat. Pour the sauce over the noodles, sprinkle with cheese and chopped parsley and serve.

Sandra and Bruce McLean. Bon-Appetit, Exec.Chef. Magnus Johansson Submitted By SHERREE JOHANSSON On 09-26-94