Boiled Rice with Tomato and Mushroom Sauce

This delicious rice dish from Liguria uses freshly picked porcini mushrooms (Boletus edulis), but any sort of wild mushroom can be used instead. Dried porcini are not suitable. I have even used giant puffballs, which grow in profusion near my home in Norfolk, with marvellous results. Unusually for an Italian rice dish, it isn’t a Risotto but a dish of dressed boiled rice. I have often used brown rice as it complements the flavour of the mushrooms very well. The dish is normally served as a