Creamy Bison and Bacon Linguine
with Mushrooms and Apple-Spinach Salad
This creamy linguine dish is full of savoury umami notes from mushrooms and bison, with bacon adding another level of savoury flavour. A light and refreshing apple-spinach side salad is the perfect balance for the delightfully rich cream sauce.
Ingredients: Ground bison • Linguine (durum wheat semolina, water, liquid egg yolk, liquid whole eggs) (egg, wheat) • Gala apple • 35% Cream (cream, milk, dextrose, cellulose gel, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate) (milk) • Mushrooms • Bacon (pork, water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, spices, smoke) • Spinach • Cream cheese (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, lactic acid, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Dijon mustard (water, mustard seed, mustard flour, vinegar, salt, white wine, spices, xanthan gum, citric acid, tartaric acid) (mustard) • White wine vinegar (wine vinegar, potassium metabisulfite) (sulphites) • Cream sauce spice blend (wheat flour, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, canola oil, silicon dioxide) (wheat) • Chives.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
250 g
Lean Ground Bison
100 g
Bacon Strips
227 g
Fresh Linguine
(Contains Wheat, Egg May contain Egg, Wheat)
1 tbsp
Cream Sauce Spice Blend
(Contains Wheat May contain Peanuts, Triticale, Tree nuts, Sesame, Soy, Wheat, Milk, Sulphites, Mustard)
113 mL
Cream
(Contains Milk)
1 tbsp
Dijon Mustard
(Contains Mustard May contain Fish, Milk, Soy, Wheat, Tree nuts, Egg, Sulphites, Mustard, Crustaceans, Sesame, Gluten)
7 g
Chives
1 unit(s)
Gala Apple
113 g
Mushrooms
1 tbsp
White Wine Vinegar
(Contains Sulphites)
56 g
Baby Spinach
2 unit(s)
Cream Cheese
(Contains Milk)
Not included in your delivery
2.5 tbsp
Oil*
¼ tsp
Salt*
¼ tsp
Pepper*
½ tsp
Sugar*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Add 10 cups water and 1 tbsp salt to a large pot (use same for 4 ppl). Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Add linguine to the boiling water.
- Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until tender, 2-3 min.
- Reserve 1 cup (2 cups) pasta water, then drain and return linguine to the same pot, off heat.
- Meanwhile, core, then cut apple into 1/4-inch slices.
- Thinly slice mushrooms.
- Thinly slice chives.
- Pat bacon dry with paper towels, then cut into 1/4-inch pieces.
- Add vinegar, 1 tsp (2 tsp) Dijon, 1/2 tsp (1 tsp) sugar and 1 1/2 tbsp oil (3 tbsp) to a large bowl. Season with salt and pepper, to taste, then whisk to combine.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- When hot, add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) oil, then mushrooms. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 5-6 min.
- Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Transfer mushrooms to a plate.
- Heat the same pan over medium-high.
- When hot, add bacon to the dry pan. Cook, stirring occasionally, until bacon starts to render fat, 3-4 min.**
- Add bison. Cook, breaking up bison into smaller pieces, until no pink remains, 3-4 min.**
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Add mushrooms. Sprinkle Cream Sauce Spice Blend over top. Cook, stirring often, until combined, 30 sec.
- Stir reserved pasta water, cream, cream cheese and remaining Dijon into the pan with sauce, then bring to a simmer, stirring often.
- Once simmering, add linguine. Cook, stirring often, until sauce thickens slightly, 1-2 min.
- Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Add apples and spinach to the large bowl with vinaigrette. Toss to combine.
- Divide linguine between plates.
- Sprinkle with chives.
- Serve salad alongside.