Black Pasta Sauce
Description
What to do with your slightly old Shaggy Manes
Ingredients
- 1/2 small onion, chopped fine
- 2 T. olive oil
- 3 C. chopped Shaggy Mane (some blackened OK & preferable, no goo)
- 2 T. dry sherry
- 1/2 t. dry thyme
- salt & fresh ground pepper
- 1 T. tomato paste
- 1 C. chicken broth
Methods/steps
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and saute until just browning.
- Raise heat to high. Add Shaggy Parasol. Saute until liquids release.
- Add sherry, thyme, salt and pepper to taste. Reduce mushroom liquids by half.
- Add tomato paste and chicken broth, stir together. Adjust seasonings. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes.
- Liquid should tighten up to coat a spoon.
- Serve over 'clingy' paste like fusilli, penne, conchiglie, farfalle.
Additional Tips
The blackened bit of mushroom turn the sauce black, almost like squid ink. The riper mushroom also imparts a richer almost smoky flavor.
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