Sautéing • Simmering and Stewing • butter • lemon juice • mushrooms • oil • Central Africa
Sauce aux Champignons et Citron
In the Congo region, this sauce is made with wild mushrooms and green lemon. Since African mushrooms may not be available outside of Africa, substitute your favorite edible mushrooms. Serve this sauce over any roasted or grilled meat.
Sauce aux Champignons et Citron (Mushroom and Lemon Sauce) Recipe
Serve this sauce over any roasted or grilled meat.
Ingredients
1 lb mushrooms; cleaned and chopped into small pieces
3 tbsp cooking oil, butter, or margarine
juice of 1 or 2 lemons (green lemons may be used)
Instructions
1
Heat oil (or butter or margarine) in a sauce pan or skillet over a medium heat. Add mushrooms and stir-fry them until they are tender. Add lemon juice. Reduce heat and simmer a few minutes.
Ingredients
1 lb mushrooms; cleaned and chopped into small pieces
3 tbsp cooking oil, butter, or margarine
juice of 1 or 2 lemons (green lemons may be used)
Directions
1
Heat oil (or butter or margarine) in a sauce pan or skillet over a medium heat. Add mushrooms and stir-fry them until they are tender. Add lemon juice. Reduce heat and simmer a few minutes.
African Proverb
Obi ntu mere ensie siw so.(Oji) : Nobody gathering mushrooms replaces them on the ant-hill. N.B. — Mushrooms most frequently grown on ant-hills, the red-clay structures of the termites, conical heaps 8 to 12 feet high : therefore the first person coming to the place would apprepriate them, not thinking they belonged to anybody.
(from: Wit and Wisdom from West Africa, Richard Francis Burton)