Morels in a Cream Sauce

• 3/4 ounces, weight Dried Morels Mushrooms
• 1 cup Warm Water
• 1 whole Sheets Of Puff Pastry
• 2 Tablespoons Mushroom Sage Olive Oil Or Olive Oil
• 1/2 whole Small Onion, Diced
• 2 cloves Garlic, Minced
• 1/2 cups White Wine
• 1 Tablespoon Sherry
• 1/2 cups Sweetlet Peas, Frozen
• 1 Tablespoon Flour
• 1- 1/4 cup Half-and-half Or Cream
• Salt And Pepper, to taste

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. In a small bowl soak mushrooms in the warm water for 20 minutes.
3. Lay the sheet of puff pastry on a floured work surface.
4. Roll out the puff pastry to 10x13 and cut out six 2 1/2 squares (youll have extra left over).
5. Bake on a cookie sheet for 12-15 minutes.
6. Set aside.
7. Gently squeeze the water out of the mushrooms and reserve the water after straining it through a fine mesh sieve.
8. Set the mushrooms and the mushroom water aside.
9. In a medium saute pan over medium heat, add the olive oil and saute the onion and garlic until translucent.
10. Add the reserved mushroom water, white wine and sherry and cook to reduce to roughly 3 tablespoons.
11. Cook the peas in the microwave or by steaming them, then keep warm.
12. Add the flour to the mushroom water and wine mixture and let it cook for 1-2 minutes.
13. Add the cream slowly and let the mixture simmer to thicken.
14. Add more cream if it is too thick or let it cook longer and reduce if too thin.
15. Salt and pepper to taste.
16. Slice the morels thinly and add them into the sauce.
17. Stir to heat through.
18. Put the squares of pastry onto plates.
19. Top each of the 6 squares with some of the morel cream sauce and top with the warm peas.
20. Serve immediately.

morels, water, pastry, mushroom sage, onion, garlic, white wine, sherry, sweetlet, flour, cream, salt

Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/appetizers-and-snacks/morels-in-a-cream-sauce/ (may not work)