cazalea
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A Little Mushroom Experiment
We saw some Chanterelle mushrooms at our local market yesterday, so I bought a basket and tried a recipe for Mushroom Butter. You start with 2-3 good-sized mushrooms, brush them clean, then slice into very thin strips. The recipe suggested to do an equal amount of white or oyster mushrooms as good chanterelles can be quite strong.
So I did that.
You place 2-3 sticks of butter (1/2 lb) into an enamel or stainless steel pan, and place on as low a heat as your cooktop can produce. In about 15-20 minutes the butter should be melted, not browning at all, and the color and flavor of the mushrooms will slowly transfer to the butter (mushroom bouquet is fat-soluble). Then you can pour off all the butter through a screen into a croc for later use. In the meantime, something has to be done the mushrooms which are now at their peak of richness.
I had two beautiful little filets of beef so put them in the sous vide machine and gave them a bath to rare, then a quick searing in the mushroom butter! and served together with fresh hot toast.
I forgot to take a picture of the mushrooms in the butter, but you can project from this. Sadly you can’t capture the smell with your eyes. However if you looked closely enough, you might discover the healthy splash of cognac that I couldn’t resist tossing into the pan.
We needed more color on the table so I whipped up a tomato, avocado and shrimp salad as a side dish.
One lonely scrap of bread remained until I took this picture, then that hand snatched it up, and it disappeared too.
Luckily we have 1/2 pound of butter with that lovely Chanterelle flavor, plus a few more mushrooms in the fridge. But we have eaten almost half the loaf already!
Try it, you’ll like it.
Cheers,
Cazalea
A Little Mushroom Experiment
We saw some Chanterelle mushrooms at our local market yesterday, so I bought a basket and tried a recipe for Mushroom Butter. You start with 2-3 good-sized mushrooms, brush them clean, then slice into very thin strips. The recipe suggested to do an equal ...
A very interesting recipe…
We have drastically reduced our mushroom intake over the past years, as they did not sit that well with us anymore. They tend to be quite heavy (especially in the evenings) but the ones you show do look delicious and I am sure the butter will be equally f...
