Wild Mushroom and Potato Mould with a sauce of Dried Mushrooms

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Potato Year: 300 Classic Recipes

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

  • About

The fields, after a warm, wet summer, may be full of mushrooms for the creation of a wide range of lovely vegetable dishes. This dish can be made with farmed mushrooms but will inevitably lose some of its flavour. Dried mushrooms, especially the Italian porcini – or dried ceps – are available in most good delicatessens.

Ingredients

  • 1 lb (450 g) potatoes, peeled
  • 2 oz (50

Method

Boil or steam the peeled potatoes. While they are cooking, melt half the butter in a pan and cook the sliced mushrooms with the garlic. Raise the heat at the end to evaporate some of the liquid.

Purée the cooked potatoes and stir in the beaten eggs, the seasoning and the parsley with the remaining butter. Butter a