Pasta with Sauteed Mushrooms and Thyme

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV

Pasta with mushrooms can be watery and tasteless. Thirty pounds of mushrooms later, we discovered a simple technique to produce a woodsy, creamy sauce quickly.

SERVES 4 as a main course, 6 to 8 as a side dish

TIME 55 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a weeknight pasta and mushrooms recipe with a woodsy, full flavor, we used a combination of mushrooms—cremini for their rich, meaty nature and shiitake for their hearty flavor and chewy texture. Cooking the mushrooms with salt released ...

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