Porcini Mashed Potatoes Recipes

CREAMY GARLIC-PARMESAN MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
• While potatoes are cooking, melt butter over medium-low heat in a small saucepan. Add garlic and saute until soft, about 5 minutes.
• Drain potatoes and return to the pot. Add garlic-butter mixture, milk, Parmesan cheese, parsley, sea salt, and pepper; mash until smooth.

PORCINI MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Place the dried mushrooms in a small bowl and cover with water.
• Allow to reconstitute while potatoes cook.
• Thoroughly wash potatoes and leaving skin on, quarter them.
• Place quartered potatoes and garlic cloves in medium saucepan and cover with water.
• Cover pan and bring to a boil.
• Cook until potatoes are easily pierrced with a fork; drain.
• Place potatoes and cooked garlic in a large bowl, beat with mixer.
• Add cream, olive oil, and nutmeg.
• Drain mushrooms reserving the water.
• Coarsly chop mushrooms.
• Use enough of the reserved water to thin potatotes to desired consistency.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste, stir in mushrooms.
• Serve immediately.

PORCINI MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• In a small bowl soak porcini in boiling water 30 minutes. Remove porcini, squeezing out excess liquid, and reserve soaking liquid. Rinse porcini to remove any grit and pat dry. Chop porcini. Line a sieve set over a small saucepan with a dampened paper towel or coffee filter and pour reserved soaking liquid through it. Add porcini to soaking liquid and boil until liquid is reduced to about 1/3 cup.
• Peel potatoes and in a large saucepan cover them with salted water by 1 inch. Simmer potatoes, until they can be pierced easily with a fork, about 25 to 35 minutes. Drain potatoes in a colander and force them while still hot through a ricer or a food mill fitted with medium disk into a large bowl.
• With a slotted spoon transfer porcini to potatoes in bowl and with a wooden spoon beat in yogurt, olive oil, salt to taste, and about 4 tablespoons reduces porcini liquid, or just enough to thin potatoes to desired consistency. Potatoes may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Reheat potatoes, tightly covered, in a preheated 500°F. oven 10 minutes, or until heated through.

PORCINI MUSHROOM MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• In a heatproof bowl pour boiling water over porcini. Soak porcini 30 minutes. Lift out porcini, squeezing out excess liquid, and reserve soaking liquid. In a sieve rinse porcini to remove any grit and pat dry. Chop porcini. Pour reserved soaking liquid through a sieve lined with a dampened paper towel or coffee filter into another bowl.
• Thinly slice white mushrooms. In a skillet heat oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté white mushrooms until liquid mushrooms give off is evaporated and they begin to brown. Stir in porcini and salt and pepper to taste and sauté, stirring, 2 minutes.
• Peel and quarter potatoes. In a kettle cover potatoes with salted cold water by 2 inches and simmer until very tender, about 30 minutes. Drain potatoes in a colander and transfer to a large bowl. With a potato masher mash potatoes. Stir mushrooms and 1/2 cup soaking liquid, or to taste, into potatoes until combined well and season with salt and pepper. Potatoes may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Reheat potatoes, covered, in a 350°F. oven about 30 minutes.
• Garnish potatoes with chives.

PORCINI MUSHROOMS EGG NOODLES WITH BASIL PESTO SAUCE

Steps:

• Fill a pot with water and bring it to a boil.
• Add salt and cook the noodles for 2 minutes.
• In the meantime, chop the fresh pistachios and brown them in a pan with a little extra-virgin olive oil.
• In another pan, heat the pesto sauce with a little cooking water, then drain the noodles and add them.
• Stir fry for one minute until the noodles have absorbed the sauce, then serve immediately with the chopped pistachios and parsley garnish.
• Variant with Mushrooms: Brown in a pan some Edendum Porcini mushrooms, add the pesto sauce with a little cooking water, then proceed as above.

OVEN-BAKED PORCINI ON A BED OF POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Remove the porcini stems from their caps. Shave the dirt from the stems with a small, sharp knife until you reach the clean flesh. Wipe the caps clean using a damp paper towel. Working in two batches, place the stems in a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped.
• Brush 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil on the bottom of an 8-by-11-inch shallow baking dish. Arrange the potatoes in the dish in a slightly overlapping layer. Sprinkle 1 clove of garlic evenly over the potatoes and season with 1 teaspoon of salt and pepper. Place the stems in an even layer over the potatoes.
• Sprinkle the remaining garlic and the oregano evenly over the stems. Season with 1 teaspoon of salt and pepper and drizzle with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Arrange the caps over the stems, season with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and pepper and drizzle with 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
• Bake for 20 minutes. Cover with aluminum foil and continue baking until the porcini and the potatoes are tender when pierced with a small knife, about 30 minutes longer. Sprinkle the parsley over the top and serve immediately.