Mushrooms With Port and Stilton Sauce in a Bread Bowl
"This recipe is adapted from the October 1991 issue of Gourmet magazine. This makes a great appetizer course or a lunch or late supper with a crisp green salad. I suggest simply using plain old button mushrooms for this due to the distinct strong flavours you acheive from the sauce. You will need to flame the port in this recipe."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
2
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 3⁄4 lb mushroom, trimmed and quartered, about 2 cups
- 1⁄4 cup ruby port
- 1⁄4 cup Stilton cheese, crumbled
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
- 2 crusty rolls, about 3-inch in diameter, tops cut off and hollowed out
- chopped fresh parsley (to garnish)
directions
- In a skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the butter over moderately high heat until the foam subsides. Saute the mushrooms in the melted butter, stirring, until they are golden and season them with salt and pepper.
- Heat the Port ( You are going to ignite it and heating it before hand is necessary for it to ignite.) Add the heated Port to the skillet and ignite it, shaking the skillet gently until the flames go out.
- Stir in the Stilton and the heavy cream and cook the mixture over moderate heat, stirring, until the cheese is melted.
- Brush the insides of the hollowed out rolls with the remaining melted butter. Toast the rolls on a baking sheet under a preheated broiler, about 4 inches from the heat until they are golden.
- Divide the mushroom mixture between the rolls and garnish with chopped parsley.
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I am a classically trained chef and a grad of NECI in Vermont. I ran my own catering company for years and then decided to switch gears and go to law school. I now practice law and cook just for fun.
I enjoy cooking for friends and DH and I entertain regularly. I also cook for my three golden retrievers and have found several wonderful biscuit recipes here at Zaar.
I collect cookbooks and food literature. My all time favourite food writer is MFK Fisher. If you have not read it, I commend her short story "Borderland " to you. It is one of the most evocative pieces of food writing ever. My current favourite cookbook is "Urban Italian - Simple Recipes and True Stories from a Life in Food" by Andrew Carmelini.
For years I managed to hang on to all of my back issues of Gourmet some of which date back to the 1980's. Sadly, I recently lost that particular battle and to promote marital harmony, I am recycling my old mags but am posting my favorite Gourmet recipes along with some interesting ones worthy of a test drive.
