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Mushroom layer of a beef Wellington
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duxelles
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n. A finely chopped mixture of mushrooms, onions, shallots and herbs sautéed in butter and reduced to a paste, used in stuffings and sauces (as in beef Wellington) or as a garnish.
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Duxelles is a finely chopped (minced) mixture of mushrooms or mushroom stems, onions , shallots , and herbs sautéed in butter, and reduced to a paste. Cream is sometimes used as well. It is a basic preparation used in stuffings and sauces (notably, beef ...
Usage examples of duxelles.
Prepare a Duxelles Sauce, boil down until thick, and cook the fish with it.
Prepare according to directions given for Baked Smelts a la Duxelles, omitting the chopped onion and the wine from the sauce.
This was even worse than preparing choux pastry in front of Maitre Chef Duxelles at the Cordon Bleu in Paris.
Christian Dior is the same, but on a bed of duxelles of mushrooms and covered with hollandaise sauce.
I looked, it was a toss-up between Chicken Duxelles with Sauce Supreme and Turban of Chicken with Watercress Sauce.