red wine &wild mushroom sauce

By exdircomp

Ingredients

• Makes 2 cups
• 4 cups red wine
• 1 thyme sprig
• 5 peppercorns
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 cup dried wild mushrooms*
• Kosher salt to taste

Preparation

Step 1

Soak dried mushrooms in 1 cup of hot
water for 15 minutes. Add hot water,
mushrooms, red wine, thyme, bay leaf and
peppercorns to a sauce pan and place
over medium heat. Reduce by half. Strain
out mushrooms, herbs and spices and
discard. Serve sauce with your choice of
beef. Refrigerate leftover sauce.
*For a stronger mushroom flavor, you can use more
dried mushrooms but you will have to increase the
amount of hot water used to initially soak them.