Parasol mushrooms

[Janna]

My mum kindly shared her haul of lovely parasols, yay!
Anyone got suggestions for using them, I've always put them in stew as that's what my mum does, but it seems a bit of a waste of something so rare!

[Alison]

I love mushroom lasangne and OH makes a mean mushroom pate. Also mushroom strogonoff is very good. Can post recipes if you're interested. Also the mushroom tart which Hugh did looked good the other night - recipe on C4 website.

[Janna]

would love the recipes if you have time! Especially for your mushroom lasagne, that sounds lovely.

[Alison]

No probs. Will have a look tonight - not got recipe books with me at work

[Hilary B]

We used to get big parasol-type mushrooms some years in Orkney. I used to break the caps into 4 pieces, cover in a herb-and-garlic batter and deep fry. 5 mushrooms did a meal for 2 adults and 2 children, the only other thing needed was potatoes (usually chips).
Batter was a Yorkshire pudding recipe, plus 1 clove of garlic (crushed) and ˝tspn dried mixed herbs per egg. I did also use wholemeal flour......
Works for any large mushrooms (the parasols were at least 7" across).
Did the same one time with slices of a big puffball. That worked even better.

[Janna]

Yum I love puffball, I've breaded it before, batter sounds lovely too!

[tiachica]

We used to take of the stalks and then cover the hats with flour, egg, breadcrumbs and fry like breaded steak. Mhmmmm.. Yum!