A study in porcini mushroom

Mushroom puree:

1kg brown mushrooms

200g porcini

1 chopped onions

2 cloves chopped garlic

200g butter

500g cream

Method

1. Sauté the chopped onions in bu er and olive oil, add chopped garlic, sauté till tender, add the chopped mushrooms, cook till the liquid from the mushroom has cooked away and add seasoning and the cream and reduce by half. 2. Place in a blender and add small cube of bu er bit by bit. Pass through a chinois and check seasoning again.

Pea Puree:

200g peas ½ chopped onion 1 clove garlic 250g butter

Method

1. Sauté the onions and garlic with olive oil and bu er, add a litre of water and bu er and allow to boil and form an emulation. Place the defrosted peas in the emulation and cook for 3-4 min. 2. Drain the peas and blend with some of the emulation till thick but smooth, pass through a chinois and check seasoning again.

Foam:

¼ of the mushroom puree

200g cream

100g butter

2 gelatine

Method

1. Take some mushroom puree and thin down with the cream and bu er.

2. Sponge the gelatine and add to the hot puree mix.

3. Pour into espuma gun and charge with 2 chargers.

4. Refrigerate.

Pickling Liquid:

1 litre vinegar

330g sugar

1 Bay leaf

5 pepper corn

1 pack shimiji mushroom

Method

1. Boil the sugar and vinegar with the bay leaf, peppers and some salt.

2. Add the mushrooms once it has been removed from the heat and allow them to cool completely.

Dried Mushroom:

1 packet shimiji

Method

1. Separate the mushrooms and place in a dehydrator for 2 hours on highest se ing.

Sauteed Mushroon:

6 each king oysters 12 each button mushrooms

Method

1. Slice the king oyster in halflength ways and scour with a diamond shape. Scrub the dirt off the bu on mushroom and slice wedges out of the cap of the mushroom in a north, south, east & west fashion.

2. Get a sauté pan very hot and place some olive oil and season the pan, place the king mushroom scoured side down and brown well, turn over add bu er and a clove of garlic smashed by hand with some thyme in the pan.

3. Get a new pan and do the same with the bu on mushrooms.