Mushrooms and watercress | Lawrence Murphy
If you forage for anything in our countryside I suspect, like me, you stick to things you can positively identify. The world of fungi is so confusing that something that looks good to eat will probably give you a bad tummy – or much worse.
It’s an area I leave to the experts.
Ingredients – serves 2
300g hedgehog mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
Small bunch thyme
1 clove garlic, chopped
30ml olive oil
Pinch sea salt
Juice from a quarter of a lemon
Small bunch watercress
Knob of butter and olive oil for cooking
Method
1. Pick the leaves from the thyme and put them into a small blender with the garlic and olive oil.
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Hide Ad2. Add a pinch of sea salt and blend until you have a pungent green dressing.
3. Put a large frying pan on a medium to hot heat. Put a small amount of olive oil in the pan and add the sliced mushrooms.
4. Fry for 1 min and add a knob of butter. Don’t worry if liquid comes out of the mushrooms, keep cooking until the liquid goes and your mushrooms will then fry.
5. Add the lemon juice once the mushrooms are colouring and then a tbspn of the dressing.
6. Arrange on plates, add more of the dressing, season and put the watercress on top.
7. Serve with crusty bread for lunch or as a side dish.