Duxelles

Name: Duxelles (Sautéed Mushrooms and Onions)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon confectioners’ sugar; Dash of freshly-ground pepper; ⅛ pound butter; ½ cup minced onions; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 cups minced mushrooms; 1 minced shallot (if available)

Sautéed Mushrooms and Onions

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

Duxelles as such is not a sauce, but a mixture. It is added to sauces and used as a farci, or filling. Duxelle usually lends its name to the dish in which it is being used, or becomes a part of the name.

Ingredients

½ cup minced onions
⅛ pound butter
1 minced shallot</

Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Sauté onions in butter for 5 minutes. Add shallot and simmer another 5 minutes. Add mushrooms. Stir-cook 5 minutes. Season, and mixture is ready to use in other recipes.