Name: Sweetbread Medallions with Horn of Plenty
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 small fresh red chilli, finely chopped; 350 g horn of plenty mushrooms, cleaned weight; a little plain flour for dusting; 3 tbsp dry red wine; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 tbsp finely chopped mint; juice of 1 lemon; 600 g calf’s sweetbreads; salt and pepper to taste; 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley; 60 g butter; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Mushroom Book

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2005

About

Not everybody likes offal in general, but sweetbreads, together with liver and kidneys, seem to be loved by most gourmets from around the world. In Italy we also appreciate other parts of the animal like spinal cord, tripe, brains, spleen and testicles, which we cook so that they become delicacies. One day, I will write an entire book about offal!