Pasta with mushrooms and sweet potatoes in miso butter

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 150g pasta
• 350 g mushrooms, brown
• 350 g sweet potatoes
• 4 stalk(s) spring onion(s)
• 10 g ginger root
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 small organic lime(s), grated peel and juice
• 100 ml vegetable stock
• 80 g butter
• 40 g miso paste, light (Shiro)
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tsp sesame oil, toasted
• ¼ tsp chili flakes
• 1 tbsp oil for frying

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 35 minutes

vegetarian

Clean the mushrooms and cut them into sixths or eighths, depending on their size. Peel the sweet potato and cut into bite-sized cubes. Wash the spring onions and cut the white parts into pieces and the green parts into thin rings. Keep the rings separate. Peel the ginger, peel the garlic, and finely chop both. Rinse and zest the lime. Prepare the pasta according to the package instructions. Dry roast the mushrooms in a hot pan over high heat for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then pour in the cooking oil and toasted sesame oil and add the sweet potatoes. Roast everything for another 5-6 minutes. Reduce the heat slightly, add the white parts of the spring onions to the pan, and fry for about 1 more minute. Deglaze everything with the vegetable stock, add the lime zest, bring to a boil briefly, and then continue to cook with the lid on for about 4 minutes, until the sweet potatoes have reached the desired consistency. Meanwhile, heat the butter in a saucepan until foamy, then reduce the heat to low. Add the chopped ginger, garlic, and chili flakes to the butter and let it simmer for about 5 minutes. Then add the miso paste and stir in the soy sauce until smooth. Add the cooked pasta to the pan, add the miso butter, and mix everything together. Finally, stir in the green spring onion rings and season with lime juice. Note: If you don’t have toasted sesame oil, you can use more regular oil for frying. However, the toasted sesame oil imparts a rich sesame flavor, which serves as an additional touch. Alternatively, you can garnish the dish with some toasted sesame seeds.