Delicious Hot or Cold Mushrooms A La Grecque

Submitted by TishT

"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"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 2 tomatoes, peeled and coarsely chopped
• 1 1⁄3 cups extra virgin olive oil
• 1 1⁄4 cups dry vermouth or 1 1/4 cups dry white wine
• 2 shallots, diced
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 6 coriander seeds, crushed
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 sprig thyme
• 1 cup mineral water
• 1 lb button mushrooms or 1 lb white mushroom
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 pinch sugar
• sea salt
• black pepper
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

directions

1. Wash the mushrooms and set aside.
2. 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.
3. Then put in the mushrooms, and simmer for 10 more minutes, uncovered.
4. Remove the mushrooms and place in a serving dish.
5. Boil the liquid until there is only 1 cup.
6. Take out the bay leaf and thyme.
7. Add the lemon juice, pinch of sugar, and a few grinds of sea salt and pepper to taste.
8. Pour liquid over mushrooms; garnish with chopped parsley.
9. Serve warm, or refrigerate and then serve chilled.
10. *Youcan use a variety of mushrooms in place of the white mushrooms: Baby Portobellos, Crimini, Shitake.

Reviews

[yooper]

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!

 

[Aaron T.]

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 :)