Easy Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

• 80 g (3 oz) dried mushrooms
• 100 g (1 stick) butter
• 4 tbsp flour
• 2 onions
• 2 parsley roots (optional) 
• 2 bay leaves
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tsp fresh chopped parsley (or preferred herb: dill, rosemary, thyme, etc.)

Directions

1. Put the dried mushrooms to rehydrate in lukewarm water for 1 hour.
2. Rinse and drain the mushrooms and put them to boil in 800 ml of water with half a teaspoon of salt.
3. Add 2 onions cut in 4 (peeled and cleaned), parsley roots, and bay leaves and let them boil on medium to high heat with the lid on until the quantity of liquid has halved.
4. Remove the onions, bay leaves, and parsley roots.
5. In a different pot, melt the butter and add the flour while continuously mixing. (roux)
6. Add the mushroom soup over the roux and let it boil for a couple of minutes.
7. If the sauce has lumps you can blend them with a manual blender or stir manually until the lumps dissolve.
8. Add the finely chopped or shredded mushrooms to the sauce.
9. Season with salt and pepper and turn off the stove.
10. Add fresh parsley and let it rest for 5 minutes before serving.
11. Serve it with steak, fish, boiled eggs, broccoli, asparagus, pasta etc.