Creamy Porcini Mushroom Sauce
A wonderfully tasty, fragrant, and satisfying way to dress up any side dish! Porcini (also called cep or king bolete) are prized among wild mushrooms and packed with flavor and nutrition. There are plenty of ways to cook with them, and one of the most popular is this sauce, which takes just a handful of ingredients and very little time.
Katya1
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Creamy Porcini Mushroom Sauce
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 8 %
2 g
Fats 81 %
21 g
Carbohydrates 12 %
3 g
204 kcal
GI:
100
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- Gather your ingredients. You can use either fresh or frozen porcini for this sauce. If they're fresh, rinse them, trim away any debris, and cut them into small cubes. Peel the onion and dice it the same way. Melt the butter in a skillet (it gives the sauce a lovely rich flavor) and sauté the onion until translucent. Add the mushrooms, stir, and cook until they turn lightly golden. If your cream is very thick, thin it with a little water; you can adjust how much cream you add depending on how thick you'd like the sauce. Season with salt and ground black pepper to taste — you can add other spices if you like, but go easy so you don't overpower the mushrooms' natural woodsy aroma. Stir everything together, lower the heat, and simmer for about 15 minutes. The liquid should reduce by about a third and the sauce should thicken. If instead your cream is thin and you want a thicker sauce, you can stir in a tablespoon of flour — but be sure to whisk the flour into cold cream first, then pour that mixture into the skillet, or the flour may clump and spoil the sauce. If you like, stir in some finely chopped fresh dill. The sauce is ready. You can blend it smooth, or leave it as is if you enjoy little pieces of mushroom throughout. Porcini sauce is a perfect match for almost any side dish, and it's so hearty it can stand in for meat, so you can serve the meal meatless. It's great over pasta, grains, mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes, or potato dumplings — you can even spread it on bread and sandwiches or use it to top various appetizers. Enjoy!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh porcini mushrooms - 34 kcal/100g
- Fried white - 162 kcal/100g
- White pickled - 24 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Cream 35% - 337 kcal/100g
- Cream 40% - 362 kcal/100g
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