Mushrooms and baked potatoes

Mushrooms and baked potatoes

Presentation

Today we are cooking in foil, a very versatile cooking methodology that allows you to cook from meat to pasta to vegetables. Here we will prepare mushrooms and potatoes, a recipe in full Italian style that I am sure you will like very much. All you need is a bit of potatoes, mixed mushrooms, the typical Mediterranean aromas and you're done!

Ingredients:

  • 300g of mixed mushrooms (cardoncelli / pioppini / chanterelles / champignons / porcini mushrooms)
  • 400g of potatoes
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 bay leaf
  • aromatic herbs as required (sage / rosemary / oregano / marjoram)
  • chilli pepper as required
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste
  • olive oil to taste

Preparation:

Preparation Ingredients

After having cleaned them carefully, 1 cut the mushrooms into pieces of about 4 centimeters and 2 then season them with olive oil, salt and pepper. 3 Then peel the potatoes and also cut them into 3-4 centimeter pieces.

Pan cooking

4 Add olive oil, chilli pepper, garlic and bay leaves to a pan and sauté the potatoes over high heat for a few minutes until they are golden brown. 5 Finally add the mushrooms to the pan and cook them together with the potatoes for 1 minute. 6 Cut two sheets of baking paper at least 30x30 centimeters and distribute half the mushrooms and potatoes on each, then season them with aromatic herbs, olive oil and salt.

Cooking in foil

7 Join the 4 edges of the sheet and close tightly, twisting to form a small bag 8 which you will then need to tie with roasting twine. At this point all you have to do is bake at 180°C for 15 minutes. If you decide to open the parcel before serving it at the table, you could take advantage of 9 by stirring it up a little and raising the mushrooms and potatoes which may have spread to the bottom during cooking.

Advise

  • Pre-cooking the potatoes : when browning in the pan, bring the potatoes more or less halfway through cooking.
  • Table service : you can serve the package still closed, so when the diners open it they will be inebriated by all the aromas of the dish.
  • Accompaniment : you can accompany this parcel with white rice or polenta for a vegetarian meal, or with fish or a grilled steak.

Author:

Luigi Silvestri Corradin

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