Pommes de Terre aux Champignons à la Carol Tilbury

Name: Pommes de Terre aux Champignons à la Carol Tilbury (Carol Tilbury’s Potatoes with Mushrooms)
Yield: Serves 3–4.
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: salt; 1 shallot, finely chopped; 1 sliver of garlic, crushed; 450 g(1 lb) waxy potatoes (e.g. Desirée); salt, milled pepper; freshly grated nutmeg; 2 teaspoons flour; 55 g(2 oz) butter; 115 g(4 oz) cultivated button mushrooms; 150 ml(¼ pt) single cream

Carol Tilbury’s Potatoes with Mushrooms

Preparation info

Serves
3–4
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

French Country Kitchen

By Geraldene Holt

Published 1987

About

Some years ago a francophile friend prepared this dish and served it to us in a small cottage near the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire. It was so delicious that I am amazed that it has taken me so long to get around to cooking it myself.

Ingredients

450 g(1 lb) waxy potatoes (e.g. Desirée)
salt
1 s

Europe
France
Side dish
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Peel the potatoes and cut into pieces about the size of a walnut. Cook in salted water until just tender. Drain and keep hot in the pan under a folded cloth.

Cook the shallot and the garlic in the butter for a few minutes, add the mushrooms and cook, stirring, until they have softened and almost all their liquid has evaporated.

Stir in the flour for 1–2 minutes and then t