I thought it was about time to write up my recipe for this homemade Mushroom Sauce, as it has creeped into a few recipes now!
Plus, it’s really tasty and could be added as a side to a few other savoury dishes too.
The recipe is based on using a sweetened plant-based milk, so the amount of salt used will reflect that. However, an unsweetened plant-based milk would work fine too, just lower the amount of salt used to taste.
Either soy, oat or rice milk will work well with this recipe. I would avoid using almond-milk, and especially coconut milk, as the flavours in those milks don’t really suit and will overpower the spices and seasoning being used.
Mushroom Sauce is used as an appetizing alternative to cheese sauce in my vegan Lasagna. It also serves as a perfect complement to the Nut Roast and would even go well with the gluten-free Yorkshire Puddings.
Easy and quick to make, let me know what you think!
Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups portobello mushrooms chopped very finely
- 1/2 tsp crushed garlic
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander seeds
- pinch ground black pepper (to taste)
- 1 1/2 cups soy/oat/rice milk
- 2 tsp potato starch
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan, over a medium heat. Once hot, add the chopped portobello mushrooms and crushed garlic. Sauté for about 5 minutes until the mushrooms have soaked up the oil and are cooked through.
- Add the cumin, coriander, and a few pinches of freshly ground pepper (to your taste). Stir through and allow to cook for a further 2 minutes until all the flavours come together.
- Add ½ cup of the milk and mix through the flavours. Then add the rest of the milk, stir, and allow to come to boil.
- In a small cup or measuring jug, add a few drops of cold water to the potato starch – or just enough so that the starch is fully dissolved in the water. Then add the starch to the saucepan and stir constantly as the milk simmers and thickens.
- Lastly, add the salt! I like to add about 1 tsp of salt to balance out the sweetness of the milk, but you can add more or less to suit your personal taste. (Also, if you are using unsweetened milk, then you will need less salt.) Stir through well, then take off the heat and serve.