Name: Mushrooms in Caroenum
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: generous freshly ground black pepper; salt or a splash of fish sauce; 100 ml caroenum; 250 g open field mushrooms; a small handful of coriander sprigs

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking Apicius

By Sally Grainger

Published 2006

About

A simple and delicate way to serve mushrooms. The recipe includes no fish sauce or salt and I prefer to add one or the other as well as pepper to finish the dish properly.

Ingredients

250 g open field mushrooms
100 ml caroenum
generous freshly ground

Method

Peel large mushrooms and cut into thick slices. Put in a pan with the grape syrup and pepper. Cut the leaves from the coriander and fold the stalks into a bundle and tie with kitchen string. Put in the pan with the mushrooms and bring to heat and simmer until the mushrooms have lost their firmness and shed all their fluid. Remove the bundle and add a