Steak With Chanterelle Cream Sauce
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This steak with chanterelle cream sauce recipe will really up your cooking game. It’s upscale but so quick and easy to make. Your guests will think you’re a gourmet rockstar! This incredibly delicious creamy chanterelle mushroom sauce can also be used with chicken or pork.
Chanterelle mushrooms. One of the most delectable of all mushrooms. It is described as having a fruity smell, similar to that of apricots, and a mildly peppery taste. Chanterelles have graced dinner plates as far back as the 1500’s, but it wasn’t until the 1700’s that they gained widespread recognition as a culinary delicacy in French cuisine. During the 18th century they were most commonly eaten among nobility. Fortunately they are widely accessible today and are harvested and enjoyed throughout many countries.
Chanterelle Cream Sauce
Chanterelle mushrooms twin beautifully with cream sauces. Here is a delicious cream sauce to serve with your favorite cut of steak. Though the chanterelle season has just passed, they can still be found in stores. Get them now while you can! That said, dried chanterelles can be found any time and many argue are equally delicious. Some chefs even argue that reconstituted chanterelles have more depth of flavor. So whichever you’re able to find, get them and make this sauce because I promise you’re going to love it!
Chanterelles are expensive, but they are very light and 6 oz. will give you all you need for this recipe.
This sauce also goes well with pork chops and chicken steaks. Enjoy!
For more delicious recipes featuring mushrooms be sure to try my:
- Creamy Mushroom Fettuccine
- Cream of Mushroom Soup
- Mushroom Gravy
- Mushroom Risotto
- Hungarian Mushroom Soup
- Jägerschnitzel
- Chanterelle Mushroom and Goat Cheese Crostini
- Japanese Mushroom Vermicelli Soup
- Creamy Mushroom and Tofu Stroganoff
- German Pork Chops (Hunter’s Style)
- Shanghai Burgers
- Hot and Sour Soup
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Steak With Chanterelle Cream Sauce
Ingredients
- 4 top sirloin, New York, or rib eye steaks , about 8 ounces each (can substitute chicken or pork)
- salt and pepper
- For the Chanterelle Cream Sauce:
- 6 oz chanterelle mushrooms (preferably fresh but can use dry and reconstitute them: soak for 30 minutes then thoroughly drain)
- 1 tbs butter
- 2 tbs finely minced shallots
- 2 cloves garlic , minced
- 1/4 cup dry white wine (e.g. Sauvignon Blanc or Chardonnay)
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp cracked black peppercorns
- 1 tsp chicken bouillon base
- fresh parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Carefully clean the mushrooms. Dry-fry them in a pan until most of the moisture from mushrooms is cooked out. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in the pan. Saute the shallots and garlic until tender, about 3 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and the mushrooms and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low and cook, covered, for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the cover and continue to cook for another 5 minutes. Add more heavy cream for a thicker sauce, add more wine for a thinner sauce.
- Generously rub the steaks with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Prepare a grill or cast iron ribbed pan. Grill on both sides for 3-5 minutes, or until desired doneness is reached.Spoon the sauce over the steaks, garnish with chopped parsley, and serve immediately.
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Originally published on The Daring Gourmet January 17, 2013
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Awesome recipe!
Chanterelles are great but I’m more than a little puzzled why anybody would want to drown out the flavor of a wonderful ribeye with a cream sauce. Chanterelles “Yes!” but cream sauce and steak is a no-no unless you’re trying to salvage some grass-fed beef.
Hi Gabriel, I’m not sure why it’s puzzling to you that anyone would want to serve their steaks with a cream sauce. Cream sauces are a standard accompaniment. Chefs and restaurants across the world serve steaks with a whole myriad of cream-based sauces such as Béarnaise sauce, peppercorn sauce, blue cheese sauce, cognac cream sauce, mushroom cream sauce, tarragon and other herb cream sauces, mustard cream sauce, creamy horseradish sauce and on and on. You’re obviously not a fan of creamy sauces with steak and that’s perfectly okay, but I can assure you that it’s far from a “no-no”.
Every year, since I stumbled upon this recipe years ago, for the brief period of time when I can find chanterelles, I go to this recioe. Never disappoints, I make it to the letter, thank you!
Thank you so much, Danette, I’m thrilled that this recipe has become a tradition!
I use chardonnay.. usually infused with fruits. Super duper.
Made only the sauce and put it on pork chops. SO FLIPPING GOOD! I will literally use this sauce on everything!!
Awesome, Kourtney! I totally understand – I love this sauce on pork, beef, chicken, mashed potatoes….it’s good stuff :) Thanks so much for the feedback!
This looks sooooooo amazing!!! Is there any recommended types of wine to use with the chanterelle sauce?
I simmered babby potatoes in the sauce during its 20 minute simmer!!! OMG
Great choice, Rick, that sounds fabulous!
I made this with a hedgehog mushrooms I harvested instead of chantrelles. Similar flavor, very delicious recipe.
This sauce sounded good, but was a disaster. You can’t cook any milk product so long or it separates into grease and curd. Further, adding wine, which is acidic also causes the cream to separate. By the time this “sauce” was cooked as described, the chanterelles were suspended in a sea of grease.
Hi Marv, I’m sorry it didn’t turn out for you. One advantage of heavy cream is that unlike milk it does not curdle with the addition of acidulants. But yes, if a cream sauce is over-reduced it will separate, hence the need to avoid over-cooking.
I had the same thing happen because I used whole milk…..my bad, but didn’t know that it would curdle. The taste is really good but the visual is a little upsetting. Good thing it’s just my husband and myself tonight – he likes everything I put in front of him.
I’ve followed many steak sauce recipes and made a lot of steak sauces in the past decade and I have to say that this is our favorite sauce by far. It has become our go to steak sauce. Fresh chanterelle mushrooms are hard to come by (hopefully with Amazon acquiring Whole Foods, this will change in the future), so we use dehydrated chanterelle mushrooms instead. We rehydrate them by simmering in 2 cups of white wine until reduced to 1/4 cup as the recipe suggests. I wonder how the sauce tastes with morel mushrooms instead of chanterelle?
Wonderful, Steve, thank you! We love this sauce too and though morels are another great option, there’s just something extra special about chanterelles.
I rarely eat red meat. I wonder how it would be with chicken? Or maybe pasta? :)
This sauce is wonderful with chicken, Dianne, and serving it with pasta is perfect.