November 6, 2007: Leek, Mushroom In Addition To Asparagus Pie

ravioli together with cannelloni together with a hankering for something a chip special, merely for me. Pastry. Cream sauce. chicken pie alongside morels together with asaparagus, together with alongside leeks inwards season, it's non hard to beef upward the mushroom quotient together with brand a vegetarian version.

This recipe makes plenty for a solid unit of measurement repast or inwards my case, plenty to repackage the leftover filling inwards fresh pastry together with portion alongside Michael 2 days later.

Leek, mushroom together with asparagus pie

15g dried porcini mushrooms (more if yous tin afford them)
40g butter
i leek, sliced
i clove garlic, minced
200g portobello mushrooms, sliced into meaty chunks
i heaped tablespoon flour
2/3 loving cup "chicken" stock
100mL cream
10 stalks asparagus, sliced into i inch lengths
i tablespoon parsley, finely chopped
tabular array salt together with pepper
i canvass frozen puff pastry
a piddling milk, for brushing the pastry

Rehydrate the dried mushrooms inwards hot water. Melt one-half the butter inwards a frypan together with gently gear upward the leek together with garlic until the leek is soft. Drain the rehydrated mushrooms together with reserve the liquid. Finely spell the mushrooms together with add together them to the frypan, along alongside the fresh mushrooms.

In a assort modest to medium saucepan, melt the remaining butter. Add the flour together with stir to combine, allowing a infinitesimal or 2 to cook. Whisk inwards the stock together with mushroom water, thus the cream. Simmer for 5-10 minutes.

Add the cream sauce, asparagus together with parsley to the frypan together with flavor to taste. (I distributed the pepper generously but needed no to a greater extent than salt.) Turn the rut off after a farther minute.

Thaw out the pastry. When it's flexible, spoon the filling into a casserole dish, cutting the pastry to size, together with house it carefully on top. Try to seal upward the sides, but poke a few air holes inwards the pastry. Decorate alongside the leftover scraps, it's a law-breaking to waste materials delicious pastry! Brush alongside a chip of milk.

Bake inwards the oven at 220 deg C for nigh twenty minutes, or until the elevation is golden brown.