Courgettes and Mushrooms in Cream and Soy Sauce

Name: Courgettes and Mushrooms in Cream and Soy Sauce
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tbsp dark soy sauce; 5 fl oz/140 ml single cream; 3 oz/84 g butter; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 8 oz/225 g mushrooms; About 10 medium courgettes

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

We grow courgettes, and after the first season, they tend to grow in such abundance that I rack my brains for ideas for cooking them. This is a recipe of my mother’s. It is easy, good, and can be used either as a first course, or as an accompaniment; it is especially good with plain grilled chicken or fish.

Ingredients

About 10 medium courgettes
8 oz/225 g mushrooms

Starter
Side dish
Vegetarian

Method

Cut the courgettes into 1-inch/2.5-cm pieces and slice the mushrooms.

Melt the butter in a wide, shallow pan, ideally a large frying pan. Put the courgettes into the melted butter, and cook for abo