Mushroom Confit

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Here you poach the fungi delicately successful a lightly flavored olive oil, making the astir of your room prep clip by preserving a messiness of mushrooms each astatine once.

You'll request a cleanable solid pint jar and an instant-read thermometer.

Use the velvety, meaty mushrooms successful pizza, tacos and breadstuff pudding; added to a stir-fry; tucked into an omelet. A premix of mushrooms works arsenic good arsenic a azygous batch of cremini oregon fastener mushrooms.

Keep the mushrooms wholly submerged successful oil, and usage them 1 astatine a clip oregon each astatine once; erstwhile they're each gone, support the oil, which is bully for sautes. Both the mushrooms and oil, refrigerated successful an airtight container, volition support for astatine slightest 2 weeks.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 1 pint

1 1/2 pounds mushrooms (see headnote)
1 spoon kosher salt
1/2 cupful to 1 cupful neutral olive lipid oregon grapeseed oil, oregon much arsenic needed
2 tablespoons minced shallot
1 tablespoonful caller thyme leaves

From Cathy Barrow, the writer of “Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving” (W.W. Norton, 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published March 17, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026