Mushroom Carpaccio Recipes

MUSHROOM CAPPUCCINO

Steps:

• Melt butter in a heavy bottomed pan.
• Add bay leaf, onion and garlic.
• Saute for 2-3 minutes or till the onion becomes translucent.
• Add mushrooms.
• Saute for a minute.
• Add 1 cup of vegetable stock.
• Cook for 5 more minutes.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Remove bay leaf.
• Make a puree of the cooked mushrooms.
• Add the remaining vegetable stock to it.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add salt and white pepper powder.
• Simmer the soup for 2-3 minutes.
• Add fresh cream and remove from heat.
• Place soup in individual cups.
• Keep a deep bowl in the refrigerator to chill it.
• In this chilled bowl pour in the chilled milk and beat it with a fork.
• This will develop froth in it which can be collected with a ladle and placed on the hot mushroom soup giving it a cappuccino effect.
• Sprinkle powdered cinnamon and serve immediately.

MUSHROOM CARPACCIO

Steps:

• Using a mandoline slicer or very sharp knife, slice the mushrooms as thinly as possible and arrange them in a single layer on a large serving platter. Scatter the arugula evenly over the top.
• Just before serving, squeeze the juice of the lemon over the arugula and very lightly drizzle with some olive oil. Season with salt and pepper, to taste, and using a vegetable peeler, shave thin strips of Parmesan evenly over the top. Serve immediately.

MUSHROOM CARPACCIO WITH PECORINO TOSCANO

Steps:

• Slice mushrooms lengthwise as thinly as possible with slicer.
• Spread mushrooms out on a large platter and drizzle with lemon juice. Using a vegetable peeler, shave some of Pecorino Toscano over top. Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with celery leaves.
• Fontaleoni Vernaccia di San Gimignano '07

PORTOBELLO MUSHROOM CARPACCIO

Steps:

• Boil the mushroom, after being well washed, and rubbed with lemon. Save the stems for another use. The water must have salt. For 30 minutes, aprox. Sliced the mushrooms very thin. Make wiht 2 tomatoes a sauce,only salt and pepper. Pass thru a sieve. Makes 3 or 4 measuring tablespoons. Put first the virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons. Then the tomato sauce. After, the slices of portobello mushroom. Salt and pepper. Parmegiano sliced and on top mozzarella, that has been salted and pepper Baked at 350, for gratine, only. Serve hot with toasted thin slices of bread.