Black Pearl Mushrooms

Name: Black Pearl Mushrooms
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 lb (500 g) mushrooms; a bunch of spring onions; 3 garlic cloves; 6 tablespoons (6 x 15 ml spoon) olive oil or sunflower oil; 6 tablespoons (6 x 15 ml spoon) olive oil or sunflower oil; coarsely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) red wine vinegar; a handful of finely chopped parsley; a pot of Danish lumpfish caviare; a bunch of watercress; salt, black pepper; salt, black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

About

The rich feasts at Christmas hardly need first courses but something really light and titillating like this, which takes no time to prepare, is a useful idea to have up your sleeve. Serve with crusty brown bread to mop up the juices

Ingredients

1 lb (500 g) mushrooms
a bunch of spring onions<

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
December
Christmas

Method

Slice the mushrooms fairly thinly. Cut the roots off the spring onions and chop the rest into 1-inch (2.5 cm) pieces using as much of the green part as possible. Peel the garlic cloves and slice them across very thinly.

Put the oil into a large, deep frying-pan over a medium heat, add the sliced garlic and stir it around for a minute or so; add the sliced spring onions and the grated le