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Duxelles () is a French cuisine term that refers to a mince of mushrooms, onions, herbs (such as thyme or parsley), and black pepper, sautéed in butter and reduced to a paste. Cream is sometimes used, and some recipes add a dash of madeira or sherry.

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Within Vinony's link graph, duxelles is referenced by 227 other articles, and connects out to side dish, Onion and Cucumis sativus.

It is catalogued under topics including Culinary terminology, Food ingredients and French cuisine.

Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.

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Food.name
Duxelles
Food.image
Duxelles.jpg
Food.image_size
250px
Food.caption
Preparation of duxelles
Food.creator
François Pierre La Varenne
Food.year
17th century
Food.main_ingredient
Mushrooms
Food.minor_ingredient
Onions or shallots; herbs
Food.serving_size
100 g

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Instance of
dish
Material used
butter
Image
Duxelles.jpg
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fabrication method
cooking
native label
duxelles
Commons category
Duxelles
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Duxelles () is a French cuisine term that refers to a mince of mushrooms, onions, herbs (such as thyme or parsley), and black pepper, sautéed in butter and reduced to a paste. Cream is sometimes used, and some recipes add a dash of madeira or sherry.

It is a basic preparation used in stuffings and sauces (notably, beef Wellington) or as a garnish. It can also be filled into a pocket of raw pastry and baked as a savoury tart.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “duxelles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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