Creamy Garlic Pasta with Bacon and Mushroom

Creamy Garlic Pasta with Bacon and Mushroom! It is in all aspect, an honest-to-goodness decadent and ultra-luxurious pasta dish. What’s in the sauce? Crispy bacon, mushroom, and toasted garlic—smothered in a rich and creamy sauce.

This dish is actually known as “Dada’s Pasta” in our household. It is the Dada’s most favorite pasta, hands down! It was his birthday the first time I made this so I knew I had to make it “extra indulgingly” special.

To spoil him (in other words), I put together all the good stuff that he likes in one dish—garlicky flavor, bacon, mushroom, and cream-based pasta. Yep! All the “good” stuff.

CRISP THE BACON, MORE FLAVOR!

Before anything else, make the crispy bacon. You will need its fat to make the sauce flavorful.

Start by putting the bacon strips in a cold pan. Turn on the heat and cook it slowly until it turns brown and crispy. Remove the bacon from the pan then transfer one tablespoon grease to another pan where you are going to cook the pasta. I wanted a white and less bacony sauce, hence a separate pan.

If you prefer to keep all that bacon flavor, use the drippings with gusto! The sauce will turn light brown in color and really rich with flavor. Like this one.

Enjoy. Indulge. Celebrate.

CREAMY MUSHROOM PASTA SAUCE

To make the cream slightly thicker, make a roux. Add equal parts of butter and flour to the browned garlic. Then finally to balance all that richness, add mushrooms. I used brown button mushrooms; other subtly-flavored mushrooms are good alternatives. It is the light earthy flavor we are after.

Note that slices of broccoli were also added for some pop of color (and probably and to lessen the guilt just a bit, haha). Just add your choice of vegetables.

Garlicky creamy sauce

• Cook the garlic in the bacon oil (fat), keep stirring until just brown.
• Watch it carefully to avoid over-toasting; burned garlic can make the sauce bitter.
• Scoop out more than half of the browned garlic and add it again once the cream and milk are simmering.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you infused the garlic flavor to the sauce. Hmm…Can you smell it already?

Easy dinner recipes for your weekly menu:

• Soy Chicken Stew with Mushrooms
• Mushroom Pasta with Canned Soup
• Easy Oven Roasted Chicken
• Pasta with Cream Cheese Sauce
• Chicken Sandwich BBQ flavor
• Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy
• Quick and Easy Beef Stir-fry
• Chunky Mushroom and Celery Soup
• Sardines Pasta

Watch the video on how to make Creamy Garlic Pasta with Bacon and Mushroom

Last Updated on August 4, 2020