You’ll want to put this creamy Mushroom Sauce on everything! From steak to chicken, porks chops to roasts, smothered omelettes and baked potatoes, you’re only limited by your imagination. It’s a luxurious yet simple sauce you’ll make again and again and again….
A Mushroom Sauce for everything!
An omelette smothered in a creamy mushroom sauce. A mushroom sauce for steak. A baked sweet potato stuffed to the brim with mushrooms in a creamy sauce.
I had all 3 of these on The List and no idea how I was going to share them all without a complete and utter creamy mushroom overload.
Solution: Just share the sauce and a bunch of ways to use it!
Jeez. Only took me 5 months to figure that out!!!🙄
Simple yet luxurious.
It’s simple to make but doesn’t call for any gourmet ingredients. You absolutely could just sauté up some mushrooms in a load of butter and stir through a gallon of cream.
But if you want one that stacks up to the great sauces of the world served at fine dining establishments, add wine and parmesan. These are the two ingredients that add an extra something-something to this sauce. Depth of flavour and savouriness (that’s umami, if you want to get technical 🙂 ).
Don’t worry if you can’t consume alcohol, just use more chicken or veg broth and be sure not to skip the parmesan!
What you need for creamy mushroom sauce
Here’s what you need to make this:
How to make creamy mushroom sauce
And here’s how to make it: sauté mushrooms until golden, deglaze the pan using wine (extra flavour trick!), then add the cream and parmesan and simmer until thickened. Easy!
Oh the possibilities!
Sauces like this are terrific because they are so incredibly versatile. So here are a few ideas for how to use this Mushroom Sauce…. just a few…..
Mushroom Sauce for steak or other seared proteins – beef, pork chops, chicken, turkey. Just sprinkle with salt and pepper and cook to your taste, then smother in this sauce. Here’s a complete recipe with chicken breast;
Baked potatoes – scrub ’em, bake ’em, slit ’em then stuff ’em;
Roasts – use as a sauce for roast chicken, turkey, beef or pork. Spectacular!
Schnitzel with Mushroom Sauce (oh my…..)
Smothered omelettes;
Add pasta and toss, toss, toss! (250g/8oz long strong pasta or 300g/10oz short pasta like ziti, penne, orecchiette, serves 3 – 4)
Meatballs! Use it for these baked Italian meatballs, chicken meatballs, or these Swedish Meatballs. (Makes enough sauce for one batch of meatballs);
Steamed vegetables – imagine steamed beans or asparagus with this Mushroom Sauce over it…
Outta-This-World-Mashed-Potatoes: It’s like mash and gravy.… but a million times better!
To be honest though, you could hand me a hunk of crusty bread and I’d be one happy girl. Imagine dunking hot crusty bread in this!!!! – Nagi x
PS Also added a lightened up version in the recipe notes. Just in case it’s more to your taste. ❤️
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Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1/2 tbsp olive oil
- 300g / 10 oz mushrooms , sliced (Note 1)
- Pinch of salt and pepper
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 1/4 cup (65 ml) white wine or rose , dry (Note 2 subs)
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) chicken or vegetable broth
- 1 cup (250 ml) heavy / thickened cream (Note 3)
- 1/2 cup parmesan ,finely grated (30g / 1 oz) (Note 4)
- 2 tsp fresh thyme leaves (or 1/4 – 1/2 tsp dried)
Instructions
- Heat oil and melt butter in a skillet over medium high heat. Add mushrooms and leisurely cook until golden brown – takes about 4 to 5 minutes. No need to stir constantly.
- Just before they’re done, add the garlic and a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook until garlic is golden (~ 1 minute).
- Add white wine – it will sizzle! Stir, scraping the bottom of the skillet, for 1 minute or until mostly evaporated.
- Add broth, cream and parmesan. Stir, then lower heat to medium so the sauce is simmering – do not boil rapidly, cream may split.
- Stir occasionally and simmer for 2 – 3 minutes until it thickens. It shouldn’t be super thick, this is a rich sauce.
- Stir through thyme, adjust salt and pepper to taste. Remove from stove.
- Serve over steak or other cooked protein. Toss through pasta, stuff into baked potatoes, serve with roast beef, chicken or pork, smothered omelettes. See in post for more ideas!
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
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LIFE OF DOZER
If you eat in my house, this is what will be in front of you. Still as a statue (except for the odd flicker of a pink tongue). Unblinking. Silently willing you to break.
Very, very effective strategy.
Thanks Zachariah for this info
Me too! Thanks Zachariah!
*Grinning from ear to ear* No arguments from here ! A kitchen with no mushrooms in it ain’t a kitchen for me . . . OK: may ‘fiddle’ with that amount of cream a tad . . . that said, have never used a rose: shall try !!! Oh yes . . . this is used everywhere in my home also . . . 🙂 !!! Dozer: I’ll stare back – who will break first . . . . ?
Same! Though right now shrooms are pretty expensive so they’re a bit of a treat 🙂 N x
Great recipe for shrooms I usually add some dry porcini after rehydration and I use the soaking liquid for deglazing ..a couple of friends are.OFFalchohol for a while.
Hey DOZER keep staring and drooling but keep those lips away from the shrooms they are TOXIC for dogs😈
Oooh you show off! 🙂 😂 N x
Criminni and porcini are not toxic to dogs
Dozer AND creamy mushroom deliciousness – yummm! I don’t know how you resist those eyes – ever! When I was a kid we had a Labrador/Dachshund/Corgi mix – small dog – big appetite (and massive tail). Black with white splodge on the feet and chest. She even got fed four times in one night (because she convinced every person that came home that nobody had fed her!).
Ba ha ha! I LOVE that story!!! The way Dozer looks at people at cafes, you’d think he was a homeless dog deprived of food 🙄
It was very funny – because it was a Friday and that meant she got a raw egg yolk on her meal (great for their coat)….from then on we all left notes if we fed her and went out again (she got 4 walks too) – cheeky puppy. Dozer has the look down pat – I would find it a struggle. 🙂
Hello Nagi, Dozer, this one is Me 100%. Love them. Was admitted to hospital last week and they recommended mushrooms for Breakfast, YUMI. All good with Dozer now?? Have good week.
Really! A mushroom diet? I love it! I do hope it wasn’t anything too serious Vera – N x ❤️
Hi Nagi
I am doing this recipe on Thursday…(my daughters birthday) …and she loves mushrooms. Plus will use pasta which she also loves. 😀
You know …when I had my dogs I definitely remembered that kinda stare once food was around…yup licking those lips …sometimes a drool or two 😂😂
Loving the Dozer …hugs 😊
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR DAUGHTER!! I hope she loves it! 🙂 N x
Thanks you so much Nagi! I will definitely pass on your wishes to her! And yep I hope she enjoys my cooking too 😜😂
Hugs …
I love mushrooms and this looks wonderful. Forget the steak, Nagi, how about pouring this over beer-battered chips? There isn’t a week that passes where I don’t have a RecipeTin Eats dish on the menu!!
Ann – you’re killing me. Mushroom sauce on chips? It’s my dream come true! ❤️
Hi Nagi,
Love the picture of Dozer. We had a friend whose Labrador would sit in front of you if you were sitting on the couch and eating and he would drool. Did make you feel guilty.
Dozer will be well and truly on the way to recovery by now and counting down in his Doggie Mind how soon he’ll be able to be free as the breeze again.
The mushroom recipe sounds good and the carbs aren’t too high either (that is for me) but alas my husband of just on 50 years doesn’t like mushrooms (calls them fungus) and so I hardly ever cook mushrooms for one. One day I will get the getup and go to do it.
This is a terrific low carb recipe Jean! Serve it over a lean piece of protein and that’s a terrific low carb meal 🙂 N xx
Oh. My.Word. So much for finding my waistline! 😀 Gotta make it, I have a rib eye steak wreaking havoc in my freezer waiting for this.
Who could resist that exquisite face with such soulful eyes. Not I!
But LOW CARB if you serve it over steak! 🙂 😂 N xx
Who could resist that handsome face? I couldn’t. I’d end up sharing my eats with him for sure. xx
He has perfected his “I haven’t been fed today!” look 🙄
Mushrooms just went on the shopping list, and will likely be on the list numerous times this month, thanks to the excellent use suggestions which I’ve also copied and printed. I so appreciate the suggestions, because I have a tendency to go completely blank, when trying to come up with meal ideas and shopping lists every few days. I must confess to mostly taking walks on the wild side, since after trying a recipe verbatim, thereafter mostly wing it just eyeballing ingredients without bothering to actually measure anything, and often adjust the finished amount to suit the amount actually needed at any given time.
However, I have created a dedicated Nagi recipe binder for frequently used recipes and ideas (Charlie, etc, etc, etc), and also a dedicated Nagi file for the overflow, because I’ve found I refer to your recipes for both ideas and interesting techniques, more than I refer to anyone else’s, including any of the vast quantity of cookbooks I have and have also inherited. So many of your recipes speak directly to what we most enjoy eating, that it has streamlined and simplified planning and shopping immensely for me. Thanks so much!
Winging it is the way Wynn! I wing it ALL the time! 😂
I wish I had a use for this sauce – my husband likes his steaks very plain, as in never any sauce. Not even marinated. I’m glad I’m not one of Dozer’s victims – I wouldn’t last long!
When you’ve got a great steak, I agree with your husband! 🙂 N xx
I love mushrooms and we are heading right into mushroom season here in the Pacific Northwest. I only know how to safely identify chanterelle mushrooms but I know how to grow those little white and brown button mushrooms in your photos and video. Oh, but wouldn’t this be yummy with chanterelles too???
I’ve been wanting to go mushroom hunting!!! It sounds like an ideal day out 🙂 And so satisfying, cooking with produce you’ve foraged yourself!!! N xx
They run mushroom hunting tours around Hampton/Blue Mountains in autumn Nagi, in the pine forests. I have been meaning to go for years but have never got around to it.
I heard about them! I really want to go one day! N x
Well I meant that I can identify chanterelles in the wild. We go mushroom hunting in the Fall and have a blast with it. 🙂
I wondered about freezing as well. As a “family” of ONE, a batch would last me a long time. I think with the heavy cream it should be okay but I want the word from the master.
Aw, The Doze! Something about that little sad snout that pleads, “Please, Sir, may I have some more? Even the merest tidbit to tide me over ’til next week?”
Thanks Nagi, your choice of recipes for us are always bang on.
Hi Vivian, I always have the same question as well (too good to not make a batch).
Hi Vivienne and Lisa!! I must say I haven’t tried but I will because a few people have asked 🙂 I don’t want to guess because dairy can split when frozen and sometimes goes grainy. N x
Hi Nagi, Shall try and let you know. Thank you! x
Hi beautiful lady AND Dozer , you really shine on this new email I just received Mushrooms my favorite word , blessings to you ,Dozer and your Mom , the only thing I did not see was Drolling from Dozer today , since his operation he has more that sad look for a while he should wear special boots ,get used to them by walking in the house ,but not for water!!! -Mushrooms- Mushrooms ,OH BOY pat lily gar -I have Facebook — lily
I promise he is smiling more Lily!! He is getting out every day now, and he’s even back on the beach 🙂 He’s VERY happy!!! 🙂 N xx
I rare;y post comments on websites, but I have recently discovered your site and I just LOVE it!!! Certainly one of the bets sites around. Just searched all of your recipes on your website. They inspire me to cook and to try new things. Please keep on cooking and sharing your recipes. BTW, Dozer is absolutely adorable!!!
Thank you for the compliment Evelyn! I’m so pleased you’ve seen things that inspire you! N x
This sauce looks yummy for someone that likes mushrooms, but that’s not me. 😂
Dozer has this puppy dog look. I make my dog stay in the kitchen while I go eat in the dinning room. He always gets alittle bit of what I have with his food unless it has garlic and onions in it. Then he will whine loud enough so I hear him. Lol.
I would jump in that beautiful blue water too, like Dozer! Have a great day N!
I love that you messaged on this recipe even though you don’t like ‘shrooms!! 😂
Your recipes are awesome; so delicious. Your entire layout of the page with pics and information, recipe notes, nutrition facts, recipe instructions & videos plus the related recipe section make your site very special; it’s like having you right in our kitchens. Life with Dozer is the cherry on top for me; looks like my ‘Honey’. Keep cooking and know they are so many of us out here who appreciate all that you do and share with us. Have a great day and THANKS!
Thank you for the compliment JoAnn! I truly love what I do so much, I just want to make it as easy as possible for people to make my recipes! N xx
Love mushrooms so this recipe will be used frequently. My dog Brandy (a Shepard mix) has the same look as Dozer when we are eating a meal but she puts her face in my lap (sometimes my guests laps as well, if she knows which friends will give into her!!!!)
Dozer does that too – when he is REALLY sucking up!
Love mushrooms in anything, well maybe not ice cream or maybe. We have a secret spot in the nearby forest that is teaming with wild mushrooms almost ready to pick. Some will definitely end up in this sauce tossed with a nice fresh pasta.
Dozer looks strong and ever vigilant, but I think should I appear at the door with a nice steak he might smile.
Secret spot for wild mushrooms? I want your life.
Nope, you can’t have it. I’m having way too much fun with it.