Mushroom Sauce

Name: Mushroom Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Ukrainian
Ingredients: 50 g (2 oz) dried mushrooms, soaked in 500 ml (2 cups) hot water; 2 onions, chopped; 3 tbsp sunflower oil; 2 tbsp flour; Salt, pepper and dill

Грибна підлива

Ukrainian Christmas Eve mushroom gravy

Wine & oil daysPrep 10 minCook 30 minServes 6

When to eat it. Poured over boiled potatoes and varenyky at the Ukrainian Holy Supper on Nativity Eve. Made with oil. Keep it for days when wine and oil are allowed, like weekends in Lent and most of the Nativity Fast.

Ingredients

Method

Chop the mushrooms and strain their soaking water.
Fry the onions in the oil until golden, add the mushrooms and cook 5 minutes.
Stir in the flour, then the soaking water.
Simmer 15 minutes until thick, season and add dill.

Tip. Dried forest mushrooms give the deep flavour of the Carpathians.

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