Italians love both farmed and foraged mushrooms, and there are so many delicious ways they can be cooked and eaten. However, I would say that the most popular way is with pasta, as in these mushroom pasta recipes.
Mushrooms can be paired with meat or seafood or be the main protagonists of a recipe. You can prepare mushroom pasta with just one type of mushroom or with a mix. However, I particularly like the ones made with sautéed mushrooms. Have you ever gone mushroom hunting? It’s a popular pastime here. Although, of course, you need to know your mushrooms!
20 Mushroom Pasta Recipes from Italy
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1) Chestnut maltagliati with creamy mushroom sauce
This chestnut pasta with creamy Lombard mushroom sauce is one of the simplest homemade maltagliati recipes to make. The combination of pasta with chestnut flour and mushrooms gives life to a dish full of hearty and tasty flavours. Ideal for an intimate dinner, this pasta brings the warmth and richness of Northern Italy directly to your table.
2) Mushroom Cannelloni (Manicotti) Recipe
This Italian cannelloni recipe is sure to be a hit with mushroom lovers! It features a filling of tasty mushrooms and creamy potatoes, all cooked to perfection in a delicious white sauce. It is without a doubt one of the tastiest cannelloni dishes you will ever taste!
3) Creamy Mushroom Gnocchi with Stracchino (Crescenza)
These creamy mushroom gnocchi with stracchino are a vegetarian dish that brings the flavors of the autumn and winter of Northern Italy to your table. The sauce, made with a blend of porcini mushrooms and button mushrooms, adds a deep, flavorful richness to the cheese sauce. It’s simple enough for weekdays but elegant enough to impress guests!
4) Chicken Liver Pasta with Porcini Mushrooms
This rich and nutritious liver pasta with porcini mushrooms is a traditional recipe from Central Italy. It’s simple enough for family meals but special enough for guests! I used gluten-free pasta, so this is a gluten-free recipe. But you can use any type of pasta.
5) Short Fusilli Bucati with Gorgonzola, Pancetta and Mushrooms
Anyone who loves the combination of bacon, blue cheese, and mushrooms will love this easy-to-make, flavorful short fusilli pitata recipe. You can serve this dish raw for quick meal prep, but the crunchy, cheesy topping in the baked version makes it even more delicious!
6) Olive leaf pasta with cardoncelli mushrooms
Enjoy the robust flavors of Puglia with this olive leaf pasta recipe with cardoncelli mushrooms. The protagonists of the dish are cardoncelli mushrooms, also known as trumpet mushrooms, but other varieties can also be used. Ready in just 50 minutes, it’s a simple but delicious choice for a nutritious vegetarian dinner.
7) Ricotta Gnocchi With Mushrooms Recipe
These ricotta gnocchi with mushrooms are a delicious homemade recipe from the mountains of Piedmont in northwestern Italy. Traditionally prepared with Piedmontese ricotta and fresh porcini mushrooms, this vegetarian recipe is equally delicious with other types of ricotta and mushrooms.
8) Genovese Mushroom Ragu with Trofie (Tocco de Funzi)
Enjoy some of the rich flavors of Liguria with this Genoese mushroom ragù, known locally as “tocco de funzi”. This vegan recipe combines porcini mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, garlic and herbs to create a flavorful, umami-rich sauce that pairs perfectly with pasta.
9) Pasta with Chanterelle Mushrooms and Speck
This creamy pasta with chanterelles and speck is a classic recipe from Trentino-Alto Adige, rich in the flavors of this mountainous region of Northern Italy. The preparation is simple and, if necessary, you can easily replace the chanterelles with other mushrooms.
10) Mezzi Paccheri with Mushrooms and Cream
Known as ‘miezi paccheri alla capa’ and ‘mbrello’ in the local dialect, this Neapolitan recipe for half paccheri with mushrooms and cream is very simple to prepare and extraordinarily delicious! You can make it with fresh or dried mushrooms. I used a mix of white and cremini mushrooms.
11) Tagliatelle with Porcini Mushrooms
The goodness of pasta with porcini mushrooms can only be understood by those who have had the pleasure of eating it. This classic traditional dish is easy to prepare as long as you find good quality porcini mushrooms. So, it’s definitely worth going mushroom hunting (even at your local supermarket!)
12) Senatore Cappelli organic wholemeal pasta with Nduja and mushrooms
This recipe is a delicious example of how nduja (a spicy Calabrian spreadable cured meat) pairs well with different ingredients. I used pioppini and white mushrooms. But this recipe is also excellent with foraged mushrooms such as porcini.
13) Traditional White Ragout with Mushrooms
For this mushroom pasta I used what the Italians call ‘chiodini’ or ‘good family’. Chiodini mushrooms (Armillaria mellea) grow on or near deciduous trees. In English they are better known as honey mushrooms. Honey mushrooms have a slightly sweet taste and a rich umami flavor. Many people say they are better than shiitakes! Of course you can also use farmed mushrooms.
14) Homemade Cavatelli with Oyster Mushrooms and Sausage
The mushrooms usually used in this Apulian recipe are called cardoncelli (pleurotus eryngii) in Italian. These are the largest of the oyster mushroom genus. In fact, they are also called cardoncello mushrooms.
For this recipe I used other cardoncelli mushrooms because I couldn’t find cardoncelli. However, the sauce was very tasty even though these cardoncelli mushrooms had a milder flavor than cardoncelli. You could also use shiitake or even porcini or a mix of different mushrooms.
15) White lasagna with mushrooms and burrata
If you want to amaze your guests, this lasagna is the way to do it! The taste is exceptional but the ingredients are simple. I guess the most important thing is the quality of those ingredients, especially the use of fresh burrata and, if you can find them, fresh porcini mushrooms make it really special.
This dish is typically prepared with fresh cardoncelli mushrooms (cardoncelli mushrooms) or porcini mushrooms. I chose to use 3 types of mushrooms; porcini mushrooms, white champignons and pioppini mushrooms. The porcini mushrooms were frozen, not fresh.
16) Spaghetti ‘Mare e Monti’ Recipe from Le Marche
This is a classic “surf and turf” pasta recipe from the Marche region of central Italy. The Marche is a beautiful, uncontaminated region, quite mountainous and hilly, with a long coastline on the Adriatic Sea. Food in this region is greatly influenced by both the land and the sea. So, the combination of different mushrooms and calamari (squid) in this delicious pasta dish is very representative of the local cuisine.
17) Paccheri with porcini mushrooms, speck and pistachio
There are a number of wonderful pasta recipes using paccheri and porcini mushrooms. This is one of my favorites! I made it with paccheri and pistachios from Sicily, porcini mushrooms from our woods and speck from Alto Adige! All wonderful traditional Italian ingredients. This recipe can be made with dried or frozen porcini mushrooms!
18) Pasta alla Boscaiola (with sausage and mushrooms)
In Italian the word “boscaiola” means lumberjack or woodcutter. So, this boscaiola pasta recipe is traditionally based on the most popular food found in the woods, mushrooms. Most boscaiola recipes include porcini mushrooms. However, it can also be prepared with other mushrooms. I used porcini mushrooms and pioppini.
19) Tagliatelle with rabbit ragout; Marche recipe
Pasta with rabbit is very traditional in many parts of Italy. This very tasty recipe comes from the Marche region in central Italy. It’s easy to make and full of flavor! Instead of porcini mushrooms you can use your favorite mushrooms.
20) Italian Ricotta Mushroom Baked Lasagna
This Italian Baked Lasagna is my favorite vegetarian baked mushroom pasta recipe. Made with the fabulous dry curly lasagna of Southern Italy and porcini mushrooms, this dish is as good as it sounds! I used frozen porcini mushrooms and fresh cremini mushrooms. However, you can use other dried or fresh mushrooms and porcini mushrooms.
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