Best Creamy Mushroom Miso Pasta Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 lb mushroom mix of choice, cleaned and sliced or hand-torn into smaller bite-sized pieces (button, cremini, shiitake, shimeji, black oyster, king oyster, etc.)
• 1 lb spaghetti or pasta of choice
• Oil, for cooking
• 5 Tbsp butter, cut into 5 pieces
• Salt, to taste
• 2 Tbsp finely minced garlic, from about 6 small cloves
• 4 Tbsp white or yellow miso paste (see note)
• ½ cup milk or cream (the higher the fat content, the creamier the outcome)
• 1-1 ½ cup pasta cooking water, more or less as needed to achieve desired consistency
• ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt
• ½ cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano or Pecorino Romano cheese
• Chives, scallions or aonori (Japanese green seaweed flakes), to garnish, optional