Creamy Mushroom & Spinach Pasta

I bought this cook book couple of months back. A great book with a collection of over 100 vegetatian recipes. As soon as I went thru the book at the airport, I decided to buy it and bought it. However it is today for the first time that I actually tried a recipe from it. Made little changes as per my taste. I've never had creamy pasta and did not know whether it will please my palate(coz I love spicy food). However I was pleasantly surprised on how tasty it turned out. When my DH came home he said if I had told him that I ordered the pasta from a restaurant he would have believed it. I was thrilled to the core and have decided to make atleast one recipe a week from that book. So here's the recipe... Happy cooking...

Ingredients:

Pasta of your choice - 300 gms( I used fusilli/spiralli)
Mushrooms - 250 gms
Spinach - 150 gms/1 cup(heaped)
Dried Oregano - 2 tbsp
Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp
Cream - 8 tbsp
Water/Veg stock - 1 cup
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt and Pepper to taste

Method:

Heat oil in a heavy bottom kadhai over medium heat. Add chopped mushrooms and cook for about 5 - 6 minutes stirring frequently.

Add oregano, stock/water and lemon juice and cook for 10 - 12 minutes or until sauce is reduced to half. 

Now add cream and spinach and cook over medium low heat for about 3 - 5 minutes.

Now add cooked pasta, season with salt an pepper and serve hot. 

Cook the Pasta in a large pan of salted boiling water according to the instructions provided in the package.
Heat oil in a heavy bottom kadhai over medium heat. Add chopped mushrooms and cook for about 5 - 6 minutes stirring frequently. Add oregano, stock/water and lemon juice and cook for 10 - 12 minutes or until sauce is reduced to half. Now add cream and spinach and cook over medium low heat for about 3 - 5 minutes. Now add cooked pasta, season with salt an pepper and serve hot. 

This recipe is off for this weeks CCC January