I used Toulouse sausages, which have a high herb content, but use what you have to hand (that's Nazca's motto I think :-)).
First I sweated/fried off an onion, and a sliced stick of celery in a saucepan. When nice and see-through I added the de-skinned sausage lumps and browned them off. The sausage should stick to the pan (mine doesn't have a non-stick surface) which creates lovely crusty/caramelised bits of sausage. At this point I threw in garlic, dried chili, 1/2 red pepper and sliced chestnut mushrooms. Once they'd had a chance to warm through I chucked in the white wine (before the bits stuck to the pan burnt, but after the mushrooms had visibly started to cook), I used enough to just cover the contents of the pan.
At this point I also added thyme (because I have a huge wad of it) and parsley (because I had a huge wad of it). But oregano would be nice too. S*d it, just whack any herbs in, how bad can it be?
Once the wine had reduced to about half (but more importantly, the rice had cooked) I put a spoon full of creme fraiche into the mix and stirred it in... 30 secs later it was ready to serve.

2 comments:
Naz, my brother, always says 'recipes are guides only' and he is a wise man. It is very true. If you don't experiment a little, you'll never come up a tasty and colourful treat like this one. I bet it was uber delicious.
I love your term 'my magic fridge'.
I was going for sac magic kinda reference :-)
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