Sautéed Wild Mushrooms for Seafood or Meat

Name: Sautéed Wild Mushrooms for Seafood or Meat
Yield: Makes Enough to Top 6 Servings of Meat or Seafood
Ingredients: Salt; Pepper; 3 tablespoons butter or olive oil; 1 pound fresh wild mushrooms such as porcini, morel, chanterelle, or black trumpet, alone or in combination

Preparation info

Makes Enough to Top
6
Servings of Meat or Seafood

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking

By James Peterson

Published 2007

About

You can serve wild mushrooms as a side dish—they look great passed in a nice bowl—but since they generally shrink a lot when cooked, this can get very expensive. By spooning them over a piece of sautéed meat or fish, you can get by with fewer.

Ingredients

1 pound fresh wild mushrooms such as porcini, morel, chanterelle, or black trumpet, alone or in combination
3 tablespoons

Side dish
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Inspect the mushrooms for dirt. Give them a quick rinse in a colander, pat them dry, and look inside the hollow stem to make sure nothing is hiding there.

If the porcini are large, cut them into 1-inch-thick slices.

The slices are thick because they shrink a lot in the pan and you don’t want to compromise the meaty texture. The other mushrooms are usually small enough to leave w