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Today I show you my recipe for mushroom cream sauce. The mushroom sauce you can prepare with chanterelles, porcini, mushrooms and oyster mushrooms. Fresh mushrooms are the first choice, frozen you can use exceptionally 🙂 also.
You may just discover a new universal recipe: the sauce succeeds easily, goes well with gnocchi, pasta and dumplings. It is vegetarian and tastes delicious.
You will find here a step by step guide with a guarantee of success. Leave me a comment, a cooking question or kitchen gossip. Wish you good luck and a good appetite!
The handy list helps in the supermarket and speeds up your shopping. You need the following ingredients:
fresh chanterelles or other mushrooms
1 piece of shallot or a small yellow onion
Optionally some garlic
Optional dry white wine
vegetable broth
salt, pepper, nutmeg
butter, sunflower oil
cream
cornstarch
parsley
cranberries
You can serve the sauce with spaghetti, tagliatelle, gnocchi or with dumplings. You can find more information in the recipe section.
2. Recipe Mushroom Cream Sauce
Look at the step by step photos at your leisure, a video accompanies you in the kitchen. Wish you good luck 🙂 Feel free to leave a comment, a cooking question or kitchen gossip!
Mushroom Cream Sauce
Guidance from Chef Thomas Sixt.
Servings 2 Persons
Calories 579
Preparation Time 15 Min.
Cook Time 28 Min.
Total Time 43 Min.
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Mushroom cream sauce served on spaghetti.
Ingredients
Risotto Zutaten
500
g
Chanterelles(I also use mushrooms or porcini mushrooms )
1
EL
Sunflower oil
etwas
garlic(Optional according to personal taste)
1
pc
Shallot(I sometimes use a small yellow onion.)
50-80
ml
dry white wine(optional)
300-400
ml
Vegetable broth
150-200
ml
Cream
1
tbsp.
Cornstarch
50
g
butter
4
pinches
Salt
2-3
pinches
Pepper
3
pinches
nutmeg
Dekoration und Beigaben
1-2
tsp
Cranberries
1-2
tbsp
Parsley
Optionale Beilagen
spaghetti
Gnocchi
Dumplings
Instruction
Prepare sauce
Preparation step 1 Fresh chanterelles photographed in a bowl.
Provide fresh chanterelles in the kitchen. Alternatively, use other mushrooms or defrost frozen mushrooms.
Preparation step 2 Cleaned chanterelles
Choose the most beautiful mushrooms for decoration and clean them. Clean the remaining mushrooms in the same way. In the article washing chanterelles I show you the variants with brush and professional washing step by step.
Preparation step 3 Cream sauce ingredients on a kitchen board.
Prepare the ingredients for the mushroom cream sauce.
Preparation step 4 Fresh mushrooms cleaned and prepared.
Sauté the beautiful decorative mushrooms first in a pan over high heat with a little oil. Season with salt and pepper, then remove from the pan.
Preparation step 5 Freshly cut parsley.
Pluck off the leaves of the parsley and chop finely.
Preparation step 6 Diced shallot
Halve, peel and finely dice the shallot.
Preparation step 7 Vegetable broth
Bring vegetable broth to a boil and have ready.
Preparation step 8 Fry the mushrooms in the pan.
Fry chanterelle cut into small pieces without decoration chanterelles in a pan over high heat with a little oil.
Preparation step 9 Fry the mushrooms and onion
Add the shallot cubes and bay leaf and sauté. Optionally, add finely chopped garlic.
Preparation step 10 Mushrooms with cream in the pan.
Deglaze the gravy with white wine and broth and bring to a boil. Add the cold cream to the boiling mushroom broth.
Preparation step 11 Cornstarch in a bowl.
Mix a heaped teaspoon of cornstarch in a little cold water and add to the mushroom sauce. Bring the sauce to a boil and thicken. Season the sauce with salt, pepper, nutmeg, cayenne pepper and parsley. I personally balance the taste of the sauce with a little sugar or cranberry juice.
Serve sauce with spaghetti
Preparation step 12 Cooked spaghetti
Cook spaghetti in a large pot of salted water until al dente and drain.
Preparation step 13 Served mushroom cream sauce with spaghetti
Arrange the spaghetti on warm plates and serve with the sauce. Decorate with mushrooms, Parmesan cheese and some cranberries.
Serve sauce with gnocchi
Preparation step 14 Fresh gnocchi on the board.
Alternatively, prepare gnocchi or use ready-bought potato dumplings.
In gnocchi with mushrooms you will find another variant with porcini mushrooms and decoration diced tomatoes.
Serve sauce with risotto
Preparation step 16 Chanterelle risotto served in close-up
You can prepare a simple risotto with white wine and vegetable broth and serve the mushroom sauce with it. Alternatively, I have prepared a mushroom risotto with chanterelles for you.
How about adding chili sauce on top?