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The Good Wife's Boiled Meat Sauce An old, - Intingolo di Lesso alla Buona Moglie

By Kyle Phillips, About.com

This is an old, old mushroom sauce perfectly suited to perking up boiled meats.

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

  • Boiled meat, finely sliced
  • Fresh and dried procini mushrooms
  • Finely minced parsley
  • 2 shallots
  • Several button onions
  • A lemon
  • Broth

Preparation:

Boiling meat to make broth is a common activity now in Italy, and was even more so in the past; hence a great many recipes to jazz up boiled meats of one sort or another. This one, whose title is a commentary upon the time it was written (the 1930s), is especially good.

Set a half cup of first-rate olive oil in a pot, together with fresh porcini (or dried ones, steeped in warm water for 20 minutes and then drained), some parsley you've minced with a couple of shallots and a clove of garlic, a few button onions, and a quartered lemon. Bring the mixture to a simmer, then sprinkle half a ladle of broth over it and continue cooking it for a half hour. Add thinly sliced boiled meat, cook five minutes more, and serve.
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