Thursday, 19 March 2015

Mushroom Ragout

17th March, 2015

Working my way through Plenty now, we've done some root veg, onions and now its mushrooms. My favourite.

While the dried mushrooms were soaking, I started making the croutons with bread garlic and oil baked them in the oven for 15 minutes. Then I chopped what felt like a mountain of mushrooms and fried them in batches, because we should never ever crowd the mushrooms!

Next I fried the onion, carrot and celery for a few minutes and then added water, stock from the dried mushrooms, salt and mixed herbs to simmer for 20 minutes to create a mushroom stock. At the same time I begun to fry the tofu. The recipe was supposed to have poached eggs but as someone who's not a fan of eggs I decided to use a substitute. I'm not an expert in using tofu in cooking and its always a lot better from restaurants, so who was I to know it would disintegrate a bit when stirred in the pan... 


I sieved the stock liquid off the veg and poured the mushrooms back into the pan to heat up with a small amount of the stock and stir in the soured cream. Serve on a bed of garlic croutons for delicious creamy garlicky mushroom goodness!


Unfortunately I ate this too quick to take a final shot. But trust me, it was good :D

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