Cogumelos Vila Vicosa

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 1/4 lbs small mushrooms, wiped
• butter or olive oil
• 2 large onions, diced
• 1 1/2 cups red wine
• 2 tablespoons tomato puree
• 12 slices presunto, diced (my substitute with jamon serrano )
• 1/2 lb walnuts, chopped
• tabasco sauce, to taste
• 1 pinch thyme
• seasoning, to taste

Recipe

• 1 melt the butter in a pan and fry the onions until they are soft.
• 2 add the mushrooms, wine, tomato purée, tabasco, thyme and seasoning.
• 3 when the mushrooms are almost cooked, drain off the liquid into another pan and reduce this by half.
• 4 return the liquid to the mushroom. stir in the ham and walnuts and serve.
• 5 variations.
• 6 if you cannot get the ham, substitute it with 8 rashers of unsmoked back bacon, which have been grilled.