Red pine mushrooms ragù
Make this deliciously cooked red pine mushrooms ragù as the next choice for your meal. If you don’t have red pine mushrooms, you can cook any other mushrooms of your choice, like shiitake or oyster. Served with pasta, rice, mashed potato, polenta or with any other side of your choice. It tastes perfect with anything and everything.
Celebrate the treasures of seasonal forest foraging with this luxurious Red Pine Mushrooms Ragù. Built upon wild saffron milk cap (Lactarius deliciosus) mushrooms simmered with shallots, garlic, thyme, and robust tomato reduction, this rustic stew radiates deep woodland elegance.
Why This Recipe Works
Red pine mushrooms possess an exceptionally firm, toothsome flesh and distinct piney umami profile that out-performs cultivated white buttons. Sautéing the mushrooms until their moisture evaporates concentrates natural glutamates before braising in rich tomato coulis.
Chef's Pro-Tips
- Gentle cleaning: Wild edible fungi absorb water like sponges; clean your pine mushrooms by wiping caps gently with a damp cloth or soft brush rather than immersing in a water bowl.
- Polenta pairing: Spoon this sumptuous ragù generously over creamy polenta or garlic-rubbed toasted country crostini for an unforgettable appetizer.
Ingredients
- 1 olive oil to cover saucepan base
- 500 gramsred pine mushrooms (or other mushrooms), sliced
- 1 large brown onion, finely chopped
- 5 clovesgarlic, crushed
- 5 gramslightly dried parsley
- 200 gramstomato purée
- 1 teaspoonsalt
- 1/2 teaspoonground black pepper
- 100 milliliterswhite wine
- 3 tablespoonsred wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoonswhite sugar
- 200 milliliterswater
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large, deep saucepan over medium heat.
- Add onion. Cook, stirring, for 4 minutes or until onion has softened.
- Toss in mushrooms. Cook for about 6 minutes.
- Add in rest ingredients, down to, and including white wine.
- Cook for about 20 minutes.
- In a separate bowl mix red wine vinegar, white sugar and water.
- Add in the mixture, and cook for about 10 more minutes.
- Served with pasta, rice, mashed potato, polenta or with any other side of your choice.