This rustic vegan pasta dish is loaded with hearty flavor from wine-braised leeks, wild mushrooms, and crumbled vegan sausage. Yum!
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I grew these mushrooms!
After reading about Back to the Roots mushroom growing kits on several blogs, I decided to try them out for myself. Having had so little luck in my recent backyard gardening efforts, I figured that I'd try my hand at growing mushrooms.
Mushrooms grow on trees! They grow on our lawn after rain! Mushrooms are everywhere! You can't not grow mushrooms! Right?
Well, yes and no. I managed to get two crops out of my mushroom kit, but they were a little bit stunted because the first crop came when the air conditioning was on and the second was when we started turning on the heat.
Mushrooms need dampness and even with my obsessive misting, the mushrooms kind of dried out (as you can see in the picture below). Bummer.
But still, I got some oyster mushrooms out of the deal, and I can say that I grew them myself, so that was awesome.
Wild Mushrooms + Field Roast Apple Sage Sausage
So naturally, I had to create a new recipe to show off my home grow mushrooms. I thought the earthy flavor of the mushrooms would be a perfect match for one of my other favorite vegan products - Field Roast's Smoked Apple Sage Sausage. Obviously, not sausage, since it's vegan.
And this recipe did not disappoint! It's a simple dish of fettucine pasta tossed with wine braised leeks, sweet and savory vegan sausage, and my own wild mushrooms. Yum!
Oh, and if you're experimenting with vegan sausage, be sure to try my Sweet Corn, Vegan Sausage, and Thyme Pizza too.
Tips & Variations
Of course, if you don't plan on growing your own mushrooms, you can use any type of mushroom you like in this pasta dish. I would opt for oyster mushrooms, baby portobellas, or a mix of both.
And if you can't find the Field Roast sausage near you, you can substitute your own favorite vegan sausage brand. Or if you're feeling really ambitious, you can make your own homemade vegan sausage.
Feel free to experiment with other veggies as well. I bet this would be delicious with some wilted spinach or even roasted butternut squash.
More Vegan Recipes
If you love this Wild Mushroom Fettucine, be sure to check out these other delicious plant based ideas:
- 17 Vegan Recipes that Replace Meat with Mushrooms
- Spicy Vegan Mushroom Pasta
- 30+ Easy Vegan Weeknight Dinner Recipes
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 large leeks halved lengthwise, cut into 1 inch pieces and rinsed thoroughly to remove grit (use the light green and white parts only!)
- ½ cup white wine
- 4 oz oyster mushrooms coarsely chopped
- 8 oz button mushrooms sliced
- 2 Smoked Apple Sage Field Roast sausages crumbled
- 8 oz whole wheat fettucine cooked according to package directions
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add leeks and ¼ c. wine. Cover and cook 7-8 minutes.
- Add mushrooms and remaining wine. Cook about 8 minutes more, stirring frequently, until mushrooms are just beginning to brown. Add crumbled sausage to pan and cook 2-3 more minutes.
- Add fettucine to pan and toss. Season with salt and pepper.
Julie says
I'm drooling...... also very impressed you grew mushrooms! Fingers crossed I can grow some too!!
The Type A Housewife says
Are you growing them from a kit? I've seen ones for shiitakes too and they're calling my name, but I'm going to wait until the spring. It's probably cheaper to buy them, but not nearly as much fun!
BKWilliams says
This looks so good. I love mushrooms fresh or cooked.
The Type A Housewife says
I love cooked mushrooms, but I have never liked them raw. Have you tried roasting mushrooms? They are great like that!
BusyWorkingMama says
I have never tried to grow them but remember in Poland that there were several farms near my grandmother's farm that did. They were cinder-blocked, dark and moist greenhouses. I remember going to sneak a taste every now and then 🙂 We also went mushroom picking in the local forests.
The Type A Housewife says
I have heard about people picking mushrooms in forests, but that would make me nervous! I am so inept, I just know I'd end up poisoning myself. 🙂
Now I want a cinder-block mushroom farm in my backyard!!!
BusyWorkingMama says
We picked them in the woods of Michigan when I lived up north.
Kelly says
This sounds so good and perfect for fall! The mushrooms looks so pretty, it's a shame they weren't very good.
The Type A Housewife says
The mushrooms were really good--I just couldn't get them to grow very big because they started drying out on the edges.
blueviolet says
That looks terrifically yummy!
Alicia@ eco friendly homemaking says
Oh how impressive!! This looks so amazing!
Val says
Oh mah gawd. I am totally going to get a mushroom kit now!!!
The Type A Housewife says
They sell them at Whole Foods too! The ones at ours literally have mushrooms busting out of the tops. 🙂
snixykitchen says
So impressed that you grew your own mushrooms! I'm too scared that I'd accidentally grow mold or hallucinatory mushrooms instead - haha. I was just saying that foraging for my own mushrooms is on my bucket list though...
The Type A Housewife says
Ha! I had that thought too, but at least with oyster mushrooms, they have such an obvious shape that you know you haven't grown something poisonous. 🙂 Now, foraging for mushrooms, I just KNOW I would pick the wrong ones!