Want to cook a simple snack, but don't know which recipe to choose? Then I propose a good mushroom dish - champignon pate, which is suitable for a lean table.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Champignon pate has a different name - mushroom caviar. This appetizer is very simple to implement, it turns out to be very tasty, but you can make it, made of any mushrooms: forest, dried or salted. In addition, several types of mushrooms are allowed in one recipe.
Usually fried onions, boiled carrots and all kinds of seasonings are added to mushroom pate. Before use, the pate is slightly cooled. An appetizer is served with toast, and, if desired, it is decorated with chopped herbs or slices of fresh vegetables.
If, in addition to champignons, other mushrooms are used, then special attention should be paid to their processing. Forest mushrooms are sorted from garbage and spoiled specimens, boiled thoroughly, and then fried. When using porcini mushrooms, they can be fried immediately, however, for safety reasons, it is advisable to boil a little beforehand.
There are also some secrets of making mushroom pate, knowing which you will get an amazingly tasty appetizer.
- For additional tenderness and creamy mushroom pate, you can add a little processed cheese to it.
- If the mushrooms are boiled, then the fire should be low, otherwise they will turn out to be hard and flabby on an intense flame.
- In order not to interrupt the aroma and delicate taste of mushroom pate, you need to carefully and a little add too hot spices.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 70 kcal.
- Servings - 400 g
- Cooking time - 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Champignons - 500 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Butter - 50 g (vegetable oil is used for a lean table)
- Seasoning for mushrooms - 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Making mushroom pate
1. Wash the champignons, peel the caps and cut into strips. Although the cutting method is not at all important, since then the mushrooms will be crushed.
2. Peel the onions and chop into half rings, peel the garlic and cut into strips.
3. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat well. Then pour the mushrooms into it.
4. Set the heat to high to cook the mushrooms well. They will emit a lot of liquid that will need to be evaporated, or pour it into a glass to use it for any other dish. Then add the onions and garlic to the pan.
5. Stir the ingredients, turn medium heat, and simmer until golden brown. Then season the mushrooms with salt, pepper and mushroom seasoning. You can also add some of your favorite spices.
6. Stir the champignons and fry over medium heat for another 10 minutes. Then chill them slightly and place in a chopper or food processor.
7. Kill the mushrooms until a homogeneous smooth paste is formed. You can also do this process using a meat grinder. Add room temperature butter to the crushed mass or pour in vegetable oil and stir the products.
8. Fold the snack into a container, seal with a lid and store in the refrigerator.
See also the video recipe on how to make mushroom pate.
