Another episode of "Cooking with rfc1437" - this time Juliana was the cook and I was just the photographer and assistant. And there was a salad with wild mushrooms, in our case porcini mushrooms, after all it is the right season for it. Our ingredients:
- about 250g wild mushrooms (we actually had 500g porcini mushrooms, but only used half of them for the salad)
- lettuce (we forgot to check how much we had beforehand, so there was definitely not enough)
- one bell pepper (which we added because otherwise there would have been too little salad)
- cherry tomatoes or dwarf tomatoes (8-9 pieces)
- 180g chicken breast fillet
- a bit of parsley
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- half a lemon
- hot paprika powder and ginger to marinate the chicken
- vinegar, oil and apricot-mustard sauce to make the salad dressing
- pepper and salt for the mushrooms
For the preparation, we took a lot of pictures again, so the points here are based on the pictures above.
- We used the recipe as a basis, but changed it significantly. It comes from a book that we received as a wedding gift and has already served us well several times.
- We had already cut the chicken into strips in the morning and marinated it with hot paprika powder and ginger.
- Cut the porcini mushrooms into small pieces and fry them with olive oil. They need about 15 minutes to be done.
- Then fry the chicken strips thoroughly.
- Squeeze the lemon
- optionally eat the lemon zest
- Mix the mushrooms with the finely chopped parsley and the briefly fried garlic
- Pour the squeezed lemon over the mushrooms and mix everything well
- In between, ask the husband to mix a salad dressing from vinegar, oil and apricot-mustard sauce (the apricot-mustard sauce is actually something like jam or chutney, we just had it in the fridge, of course any other variant would work too)
- Cut the lettuce and put it in the bowl. And yes, that was really all we had, it was a bit little.
- Therefore, quickly chop a bell pepper
- Mix lettuce, bell pepper and the dwarf tomatoes with the salad dressing
- Put the mushrooms on the salad (do not mix anymore, it looks prettier)
- Arrange the chicken strips on the salad
- Once again the spices we used for chicken strips and salad dressing, the oil was already in the picture. The vinegar was simply balsamic vinegar.
- serve the whole thing with bread
- and then eat!
The result was very tasty, but for next time we plan to have a larger amount of lettuce and I think making the salad dressing with part of the lemon juice instead of vinegar would also be a good idea. But it was a very tasty salad that also fits perfectly with the season.