Name: Buckwheat Groats with Mushrooms and Cream (Драгомировская каша)
Yield: 8 to 10 Servings
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons chopped parsley; ½ cup heavy cream; Salt, freshly ground black pepper to taste; 4 tablespoons butter; dried Mushroom Sauce; 2 pounds mushrooms, trimmed and minced; Cooked carrots

Preparation info

8 to 10
Servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Russia

By Darra Goldstein

Published 1983

About

Here, homely buckwheat groats are embellished with mushrooms galore in a dish named for the nineteenth-century general Mikhail Dragomirov.

Ingredients

1 recipe Buckwheat Groats which have been kept warm
2 pounds mushrooms, trimmed and minced
4 tablespoons

Method

In a large frying pan cook the mushrooms in the butter until the pan juices have evaporated. Then stir in the cream, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and stir in the parsley.

Grease a l-quart mold. Place one third of the cooked groats in the mold, pressing down with the back of a spoon. Make sure they cover the entire bottom of the mold. Place half of the mushroo