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vegetarian mushroom pate
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
6 hours chilling
tasty snack
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oil+butter for frying
- 2 shallots
- 3garlic cloves
- 500g chestnut mushrooms
- 4 tbsp port optional
- 2 sprigs fresh tarragon
- 100g cooked chestnuts or hazelnuts if chestnuts unavailable
- 300g cream cheese
- salt+pepper
- bread to serve
Method
step 1
put oil+butter in a frying pan over medium heat, peel+finally chop shallots+garlic,add to pan cook for 3 minutesstep 2
Finely sliced mushrooms, add to pan with port if using and season with salt+pepperstep 3
turn up heat+cook for 8 mins or till mushrooms have softened and liquid has evaporatedstep 4
roughly chop chestnuts,step 5
tip mushrooms in food processor with chestnuts and some of the tarragon and cheese, blitz for a few minutes till smooth, divide into ramekins, place remainder of tarragon on top and chill
