Easy
6
Published 1991
Cultivated mushrooms are greatly improved by spices, and this creamy sauce transforms roast and grilled chicken or lamb. It is quite piquant despite the cream. Serve the sauce with pasta dishes. Alternatively, you can make a delicious egg curry by slicing hard-boiled eggs and mixing them in with the sauce. The meatier chestnut mushrooms are ideal for this sauce if available.
Melt the butter and oil in a heavy-based saucepan over a medium heat, then add the ground coriander, cumin and cinnamon and the chopped ginger and garlic. Stir the spices for a minute or so and then add the chopped mushrooms. Toss around until beginning to soften, and then add the tomato puree, the water and the strained lemon juice.
Mix the contents of the saucepan thoroughly and bring to the boil, then lower the heat and simmer very gently in the open pan, stirring now and then, for 15–20 minutes. Bring to the boil again (if the mushroom mixture is very liquid bubble for a few more minutes to reduce it slightly) and add the double cream.
Stir and bubble the mixture for about 2 minutes, then remove the saucepan from the heat. Add salt and cayenne pepper to taste and stir in the roughly chopped coriander or mint leaves just before serving.
If you want to make the sauce well in advance, which you can, add the fresh herbs after you have reheated it gently.
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