Cream of Mushroom Sauce

I think that is one of the easiest cream sauces to do, but it is also a bit heavy due to usage of whipping cream as a main ingredient.

Personally I think the taste this sauce completely worth working out those extra calories later on. But it is for you to decide: try substitute cream with smaller amount of half & half to make it a bit lighter if you wish.

Cream of Mushroom Sauce is perfect addition for potato-based dishes: potato dumplings, potato pancakes or simply boiled potato; it will also benefit grilled or fried chicken meat or roasted beef; as well as it can be served as a pasta sauce.

Ingredients:

• 14-16 oz of fresh field mushrooms
• 3 shallots
• 2 cups of heavy whipping cream (25%-30%)
• 2 tbsp of sour cream
• Vegetable oil of your choice
• Salt to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients: I prefer to skin field mushrooms, but you can also simply clean them with a water:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 1

2. Warm up a skillet with about 1 tbsp of oil over low-medium heat (I use sunflower oil). Skin and chop shallots, add them to the skillet and fry until yellowed in color, stir from time to time:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 2

3. Dice mushrooms (size doesn’t matter much) and add mushrooms to the skillet with shallots:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 3

4. Fry mushrooms until the juice they produced evaporates almost all (about 15-20 mins), then turn the heat off and move skillet to cold burner:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 4

5. Next step will require using some kind of grinding device: blender, hand blender, grinder/chopper, food processer – anything what can get the food processed into a cream state. You may need to cool the fried mushrooms till some temperature acceptable for the tool you use before you pour the fried mushroom-onion mix into the container:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 5

6. Add 2 table spoons of sour cream and salt to taste:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 6

7. Add about 1 cup of heavy cream:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 7

8. Cover the container with a lid (if needed) and start chopping on medium speed, it does take some time to chop and blend whole cup so just leave it for some time:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 8

9. When the mix got cream-puree like, pour it in to the sauce pan:
   
   

   Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 9

10. Add remaining heavy cream (at this point you may correct thickness of the sauce: if you want it to be more thin – just add a bit more cream):
    
    

    Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 10

11. Put the sauce pan over low heat burner, mix the sauce and bring to simmer (but don’t boil!). Remove sauce pan from the burner:
    
    

    Cream of Mushroom Sauce Recipe: Step 11

12. Cream of Mushroom Sauce is ready! Serve it to in a sauce bowl or simply pour over your favorite vegetable, meat or chicken dish:
    
    

    Cream of Mushroom Sauce

Enjoy!

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