Red Wine Mushroom Sauce
- 3/4 pound white or cremini mushrooms, thickly sliced, or wild mushrooms, halved or quartered, depending on size
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cups full-bodied red wine, such as Merlot, Zinfandel or Rioja
- 1 medium shallot, minced
- 2 tablespoons prepared demiglace (see Note)
- 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- In a large skillet, saute the mushrooms in the oil over high heat for about 10 minutes, until softened and fragrant.
- In a medium nonreactive saucepan, combine the wine, mushrooms, shallot and demiglace.
- Boil over high heat, stirring occasionally until reduced to 2 cups, about 10 minutes.
- (To make the sauce with pan juices, discard the fat from the saute skillet, add the reduced wine mixture and boil for 30 seconds, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to dissolve the browned bits.)
- Off the heat, whisk in the butter to make a thickened sauce.
- Season with salt and pepper and serve.
white, olive oil, fullbodied red wine, shallot, demiglace, cold unsalted butter, salt
Taken from www.foodandwine.com/recipes/red-wine-mushroom-sauce (may not work)