Awesome Mushroom Pâté Recipe

Updated May 15, 2019

Recipe Details

Active 10 mins

Total 25 mins

Serves 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

1 1/2 tablespoons finely ground dried mushrooms (a mini food processor should be able to grind a big handful of dried mushrooms)
13 ounces mixed mushrooms, caps quartered, stems roughly chopped (unless they're inedible)
3 tablespoons olive oil
4 cloves garlic, left whole and in their paper jackets
About 8 whole stems thyme
Kosher salt
Freshly cracked black pepper
3 ounces Neufchâtel cheese
1 tablespoon flat leaf parsley, packed
2 teaspoons lemon juice
Truffle oil, for drizzling
Baguette, thinly sliced, for serving

Preheat the broiler. Put a wide ovensafe braising pot on the stove over medium-high heat.
Add the olive oil to the hot pot, followed immediately by the mushrooms, dried mushrooms, garlic, thyme, salt, and pepper. Toss everything together with tongs so the mushrooms are well coated with the hot olive oil. Put the mushrooms about 5 to 6 inches from the broiler and cook for 15 minutes, tossing once. The residual heat from preheating the pot will help brown the mushrooms. Scrape everything out of the mushroom pot into a bowl to cool.
When the mushrooms are room temperature, set aside 1/4 cup for garnish. Squeeze the garlic from their jackets and put them and rest of the mushrooms in the food processor with the Neufchatel, parsley, and lemon juice. Whiz until smooth. Taste, and adjust the seasoning. Decant to a pretty bowl, then drizzle with truffle oil, top with the reserved mushrooms, and serve with thinly sliced baguette.

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 4 to 6
Amount per serving
Calories	118
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10g	13%
Saturated Fat 3g	14%
Cholesterol 10mg	3%
Sodium 260mg	11%
Total Carbohydrate 5g	2%
Dietary Fiber 2g	6%
Total Sugars 2g
Protein 3g
Vitamin C 4mg	22%
Calcium 27mg	2%
Iron 1mg	7%
Potassium 266mg	6%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.