Duxelles (Minced Mushrooms with Herbs)
Duxelles is a French mushroom dish.
Ingredients
- ½ pound fresh mushrooms or mushroom stems, minced
- 1 small onion or 1–2 shallots, minced
- 1–2 tablespoons butter
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
- Chopped parsley to taste
- 1 pinch tarragon or thyme (optional)
Ingredients for 1 serving (330 g) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
In a frying pan, sauté the onion in butter until soft but not brown (about 3–5 minutes).
Stovetop - 2
Stir in minced mushrooms, salt, pepper, chopped parsley, and tarragon.
- 3
Cook the mixture over medium high heat until the mushrooms give off a lot of liquid; that liquid will evaporate completely (about 5–10 minutes). The duxelles should look like a coarse mash.
Stovetop - 4
Cool the mixture slightly, and taste for seasoning.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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