Champignons are the most common mushrooms in stores due to their low calorie content and taste. Mistresses often wonder what to cook from this product quickly and with the help of those ingredients that are in the house. In this case, paste is the lifebuoy.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
The main ingredient of home-cooked dishes are mushrooms, the taste of the snack depends on the freshness of which.
Did you know? The pate is often called "Terrin", as before the dish was served in earthenware, which had such a name.
When buying, follow these rules:
- the color of the fresh mushroom is white, beige or slightly brown;
- there should be no spots or splashes on the hat;
- if the film between the leg and the cap on the small mushroom is damaged - this is a sign of stale;
- the smell of fresh champignon is pleasant, mushroom.
Before cooking, wash the mushrooms and dry with paper towels. Rinse vegetables and peel off dirt and peel.
Champignon Mushroom Pate Recipes
Homemade mushroom pate is designed to diversify the daily diet or serve as a warm-up for a feast. Below we look at two simple recipes step by step.
Classic Mushroom Pate
1025-30 minutes
refined sunflower oil
3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Mushrooms need to be cut into thin pieces.
- Heat the pan and, without adding oil, send mushrooms there.
- At this time, divide the onion into four parts and finely chop.
- Grate carrots on a coarse grater.
- After the liquid secreted by the champignons has dissolved, add a few tablespoons of oil, salt and pepper. Mix.
- Send onions to the mushrooms, mix and let fry for 5 minutes.
- At the end of time add carrots there, leave to fry for 7-8 minutes.
- Turn off the burner, move the workpiece to a container and allow to cool slightly. To beat the filling and cottage cheese in a blender.
- When the mass becomes homogeneous, transfer the resulting paste into a pastry bag.
- The whole baguette must be cut into rings, then cut each in half.
- Gently spread the mushroom paste on pieces of bread.
- Garnish the resulting appetizer with parsley.
Important! To make the dish as tasty as possible, fulfill the main condition — Do not use sour or too dietary cottage cheese.
Video recipe
Classic Mushroom Paste
With cheese
820 minutes
mushroom flavored cheese
1 PC.
ground black pepper
4–5 g
refined vegetable oil
2-3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut the onion into small cubes, set aside on a plate. Cut the champignons in half, and then chop in any convenient way.
- Preheat the pan and add vegetable oil (can be replaced with butter).
- Send the onion to the pan, and when it becomes golden and has a softer texture, add mushrooms. Fry, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes.
- Cut the cream cheese into several parts, then send to the blender bowl.
- Finely chop the dill and also send it to the blender.
- Add champignons to the bowl, pour a little pepper and salt.
- Grind the contents thoroughly using technology.
- To serve, take white bread, cut it, and then spread with a prepared paste and garnish with a sprig of dill.
Important! It is not recommended to overdo it with salt because the cheese is so salty enough.
Video recipe
With damp
Mushroom paste, cooked at home, is not only delicious, but also a very satisfying dish, suitable even for people on a diet. In addition, its preparation does not take much time, and also does not require special culinary skills.