Delicious Hot or Cold Mushrooms A La Grecque

"Mushrooms a la Grecque is a French dish in which mushrooms are prepared in a Greek style with lemon juice, olive oil, and Greek herbs and spices. This recipe is adapted from The Food of France"
 
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Ready In:
50mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Wash the mushrooms and set aside.
  • Put the tomatoes, olive oil, vermouth or white wine, shallots, garlic, coriander seeds, bay leaf, thyme, and water in a saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Then put in the mushrooms, and simmer for 10 more minutes, uncovered.
  • Remove the mushrooms and place in a serving dish.
  • Boil the liquid until there is only 1 cup.
  • Take out the bay leaf and thyme.
  • Add the lemon juice, pinch of sugar, and a few grinds of sea salt and pepper to taste.
  • Pour liquid over mushrooms; garnish with chopped parsley.
  • Serve warm, or refrigerate and then serve chilled.
  • *Youcan use a variety of mushrooms in place of the white mushrooms: Baby Portobellos, Crimini, Shitake.

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  1. Tish, thank you for posting this! I used to have an old James Beard cookbook that I lost among my many moves over the years, which contained a recipe for this. I always meant to try it, and now thanks to you I have. I used a combo of white buttom, portobello and shiitake shrooms. I chilled them and brought them to room temperature before serving! Fungus never tasted so good!
     
  2. Hey Tish! I have to tell you that there is no way that "a la Grecque" would ever use that much olive oil or vermouth/wine, because you can't effectively reduce 1 1/3 cups of olive oil to 1 cup. If you lose the 1 in front of both, you are spot on though. I would also use more like 1 tsp of coriander seed to bring out the Grecque :)
     
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