Creamy Chicken and Mushroom Fettuccine

This creamy sauce is the heart of the dish, I am not sure if there were a name for the sauce....as I am actually made this on my own intuition, not based on other people's recipes. It is creamy, but not super creamy as I mix the cream with milk, and also adding some chicken stock to enhance the flavour. Because I am not an Italian, so I add this and that so that this sauce is tastier and suitable for my very demanding (for spice) Indonesian tongue.

Ingredients :

300 gr fettuccine

200 gr chicken fillet, cut into cubes

150 gr fresh mushroom, or canned champignon mushroom

3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

1 onion, finely chopped

1 tsp all-purpose flour

1 tsp butter

2 tbsp extra light olive oil

salt and crushed black pepper, to taste, depending on your liking

2-3 tbsp grated parmesan

a bunch of parsley, finely chopped

250 ml cooking cream/heavy cream

250 ml uht milk

100 ml chicken stock

Instructions :

1. Bring a large pot of slightly salty water to a boil. Add the fettuccine and a tbsp of cooking oil. Cook about 8-10 minutes until aldente.

2. Saute the garlic and onion with butter and olive oil until fragrant, add the all-purpose flour, mix until no more lumps. 

3. Add in the chicken cubes, saute until cooked. Then add the mushroom, saute again for few minutes.

4. Add in the chicken stock, cream and milk, bring to the boil. Continuous stirring is required. Season with parmesan, salt and crushed black pepper. Turn off heat.

5. Add pasta to sauce. Use enough pasta so that all the sauce is used and the pasta is thoroughly coated. Sprinkle some chopped parsley.Serve immediately.

Tuna Aglio e Olio

If you read every post, you must be aware that I write in almost every post that  “this food is my family’s favorite” “gone in a sec” and so on.  You see, one of my reason to make this blog, is to documented my family’s recipe. No more missing in action recipe! 

This simple pasta dish is my husband’s favorite. He could eat it for lunch, dinner and the next day breakfast. It is THAT good. The ingredients also very simple. Garlic and olive oil is the key ingredients here.  You can add almost everything you like here, I sometimes toss some smoked beef, smoked chicken and prawn. This time I am adding tuna chunks.

Ingredients : 

250 gr spaghetti, cook until aldente

Tuna chunks (I am using canned tuna)

5-6 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced

2 stacks of celery, thinly sliced

2-3 chilie

3 tbsp olive oil

Salt and black pepper

Grated parmesan

How to :

1. In a pan, heat the oil and sautee the sliced garlic until fragrant, and the color is golden brown.

2. Toss the sliced chilies, tuna chunks, stir. 

3. Add in the spaghetti, stir. Add the celery, salt and blackpepper. Stir well. Serve on a plate, and sprinkle some grated parmesan.