Recipe - Rice And Mushroom Pilaf

1 ounce Dried wild mushrooms,
preferable porcini, well
rinsed
9 tablespoon Unsalted butter
2 One half cup Chopped onions
1 pound Fresh white mushrooms,
cleaned and cut or sliced up
2 Mediumsize cloves garlic,
minced
One fourth cup Sour cream
1 cup Longgrain rice (or may
substitute barley)
1 One half cup Water
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper, to taste
3 tablespoon Chopped fresh dill (or use
herb or your choice)

Jenipher Lapoint was looking for a particular barley recipe. I couldn't
find anything similar until I looked in the book _Please to the Table, The
Russian Cookbook_ by Anya von Bremzen and John Welchman. They give a recipe
for Rice and Mushroom Pilaf and say that the recipe works very well if you
use barley instead of the rice. So, here is their Rice Pilaf recipe, maybe
it will work for you Jenipher, or you can try your favorite rice pilaf
recipe.

1. Soak the dried mushrooms in 2/3 cup water for 2 hours. Remove the
mushrooms from the soaking liquid, pat dry with a paper towel, chop fine,
and set aside. Strain the soaking liquid through a coffee filter and set
aside.

2. Melt 4 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet. Saute the onions
over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until nicely browned, about 25
minutes.

3. Meanwhile, in another skillet, melt 4 more tablespoons of the butter and
saute the dried and fresh mushrooms until golden also about 25 minutes.
Toward the end add the garlic and sour cream, stir, and cook for 3 to 4
minutes longer.

4. While the onions and mushrooms are cooking, combine the rice, water,
mushroom soaking liquid, and the remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a large
saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Add salt, then reduce the
heat, cover, and simmer until the rice has absorbed all the liquid, about
20 minutes.

5. Stir the mushrooms and the onions thoroughly into the rice, add salt and
pepper, and heat for about 5 minutes. Transfer to a serving bowl and
sprinkle on the dill. Serves 4 to 6.

Posted to EATL Digest 23 November 96

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:24:50 EST

From: Felicia Pickering MNHAN063@SIVM.SI.EDU