Easy Chanterelle Mushrooms And Potatoes Recipe (2024)

Published: May 11, 2019 · Modified: Feb 24, 2024. This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy.

This chanterelle mushrooms and potatoes recipe is easy, delicious and it is the base for many more chantarelle recipes. Wild mushroom chanterelles is a bright yellow mushrooms shaped like a funnel. It is chunky, meaty, nutty and slightly spicy. Cantharellus cibarius is a great ingredient for many recipes, side dishes or vegan and vegetarian main recipes.

What are Chanterelle Mushrooms

Chanterelle are wild mushrooms called Gallinelle in Italian and Girolle in French. They are less known than porcini mushroom but equally good and pricy.

While porcini have been over-picked in our Mediterranean forest, chanterelle are easier to find in the wild.

Its flavor is not as strong as the porcini, it has a sweeter peppery taste and a chunkier flesh. The wild mushroom chanterelle season starts late August in the Mediterranean forests, and there are many easy chanterelle recipes to enjoy their earthy flavor.

How to clean chanterelles

1. Cut the roots
2. Brush away the dirt with a brush or paper towel
3. Quickly rinse under running water

Wild mushrooms shouldn’t be washed under running water as they absorb water like a sponge and it will dilute their flavour.Since most of the time not all the dirt will come out from just brushing them, I usually rinse them quickly at the end.

You can watch how in the video below.

Ingredients list

• 20 Chanterelle mushrooms
• 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Stir fry the chanterelle

1. Cut the chanterelle in quarters
2. Stir-fry 2 garlic cloves in olive oil
3. Remove once golden
4. Pour the chanterelle and stir from times to times
5. They will reduce in size
6. At the end add salt, pepper and parsley

More Chanterelle mushrooms recipes

Once the Chanterelle are cleaned and stir fried you can either serve them as they are or mixing it with other carbs or vegetables.

Here are more recipes you can make with sauteed Chantarelle:

• Chantarelle with fresh tagliatelle: you can check the recipe: Black truffle pasta
• Chantarelle with risotto: here is how to make the perfect Carnaroli risotto
• Serve them with grilled scamorza cheese and fried polenta
• Use them as a vegetarian pizza topping
• Use them in a beef or chicken pie
• Make a zucchini mushroom quiche with bacon
• Bake them in a frittata
• You can serve them as a side dish for beef or pork,

To enhance their earthy flavour, I like to mix them with local roasted potatoes and here is the recipe:

Chanterelle potato recipe

Additional ingredients:

• 8 medium potatoes
• 3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• ½ tablespoon salt
• 1 bay leave
• 4 cloves of garlic
• pepper

Bake the potatoes

7. Peel the potatoes
8. Cut them in small cubes
9. Put in a baking tin with olive oil, salt, pepper, bay leave and garlic

10. Bake in a hot oven at 220 C - 430 F for 30 minutes
11. Remove and stir the potatoes, scraping the pan if they stuck to it
12. Put back in the oven for another15 minutes
13. Stir again the potatoes, scraping the pan with the spatula.
14. Baked for another 15 minutes, or until they are cooked as you like
15. Add the mushroom and put back in the oven to warm them up

How to serve Chanterelle with baked potatoes

Once they are out of the oven, serve them immediately on a serving dish.They can be served as a side to a meat dish or as a main vegan meal. They are also perfect for a nice breakfast or brunch.

Enjoy!

Substitute to chanterelle mushrooms

You can make this recipe with any other mushrooms, wild as well as farmed. Porcini are a great substitute to Chanterelle.

If you cannot find fresh wild mushrooms you can use the frozen ones but make sure you cook them thoroughly so they do not release more water once added to the potatoes.

Another option is using dried mushrooms, I will soon post the recipe on how to use them.

FAQ

Foraging Chanterelle mushrooms

Foraging mushrooms is a passion for many French and Italian, and locals are very protective of their locations.

It is not easy to venture by yourself.

You will have to find their secret whereabouts and go with an expert who can distinguish the edible mushrooms from the poison ones.

How to make sure wild mushrooms are edible

If by chance you find some wild mushrooms and you are not sure if they are edible, I would recommend stopping at a local pharmacy as they are qualified to recognize them.

Some toxic mushrooms can be eaten if boiled for a long time, but why risking?

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