Mushrooms with tomato and orange sauce

Mushrooms with tomato and orange sauce is a variation of mushrooms à la Grecque.  Quite delicious, it tastes of the sun.

Serve as a starter or as a tapas dish.

It can be prepared in advance.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 13 Mins

Total Time: 1½ Hrs

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

340 gms          Mushrooms  - small button      

¼                   Lemon      

4 tbs               Olive oil    

3 tbs               Water       

1 clove            Garlic  - chopped     

340 gms          Tomatoes  

½                   Orange  - zest of      

1                    Orange  - juice of     

1                    Bay leaf     

2 sprigs           Thyme      

1 sprig            Parsley     

                      Pepper      

                      Salt          

1 tsp               Honey  - runny        

Method

Rub the mushrooms with the lemon quarter.

Simmer the remaining ingredients for 10 minutes and then add the mushrooms and cook for a further

3 minutes.  Remove the mushrooms to a dish.

Boil down the sauce to a strongly-flavoured purée.  Adjust the seasonings and then remove the thyme and parsley stalks.  Pour the sauce over the mushrooms and chill.  Serve from the dish or transfer to ramekins.

Wine recommendations

A white wine.

Conventional

     Vouvray sec

Interesting

     Côtes de Gascogne blanc

     Côtes du Jura blanc

     Mâcon

     Riesling

Adventurous

     Amontillado Sherry