Mushroom Toast With Pea Purée

By Sam Sifton

Mushroom Toast With Pea Purée
David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks.
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This is a no-recipe recipe, a recipe without an ingredients list or steps. It invites you to improvise in the kitchen.

Take a bag of frozen organic peas and heat them in a little bit of boiling water for a couple of minutes to get them warm and cooked through, then drain them off and whiz them in a food processor with a hit of olive oil, some lemon juice and, if you have any, some tarragon leaves, until it resembles a thickish purée. Next, sauté a bunch of thick-sliced portobellos (count on about two mushrooms per person) in a lot of butter with a little bit of garlic. Really cook those down. Finally, make toast from hefty slices of your favorite bread, spread them with the pea purée, top with the mushrooms and — dinner!

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Judy

Delicious toasts! We used baby bellas, a firm sourdough rye as the base. Next day the leftover pea puree and sauteed mushrooms made a terrific risotto. I sweated an onion in olive oil, added rice, then white wine. Started adding chicken stock. Twelve minutes later the puree & mushrooms went in, plus 2T nutritional yeast (for Parmesan-like flavor). Finished to al dente and garnished with baby arugula, no cheese. One of our best risottos ever.

Lisa Wilson

Tasty. I topped it off with sea salt.

Amanda

I was not a fan of this, which was really a bummer because I really like toast for a light dinner. I think maybe peas taste a lot sweeter than I was expecting? I’d be willing to try it again with maybe beans or edamame, or even just the sautéed mushrooms.

GB

Had this with a crispy cold champagne over sourdough for NYE dinner, perfect!

Janice

We do something similar with goat cheese instead of the peas and add balsamic and shallots to the mushrooms. I’m going to try combining the two recipes.

Nicole

Delicious toasts!!! I used dried mint instead of tarragon for the pea puree.

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