The market · Mushrooms · Northern and Central Europe

Chanterelles

A golden wild mushroom that smells faintly of apricots, with a peppery bite.

apricot · peppery
Chanterelleslast weeks

What to do with it

Classics built on it
YunnanWild mushroom hotpotA pot of chicken broth at the table, filled with the rainy season's wild mushrooms — porcini, chanterelles, jizong and more — and simmered well before anyone eats.No one here has made it yet

Kinds

Girolle
The classic golden chanterelle.
Trompette / winter chanterelle
Thinner, darker, later in the year.

If you can't find it

Greengrocers and markets in late summer and autumn.

  1. 1Oyster mushroom
    The same weight
    You lose the apricot perfume.

Goes with

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Knowing it

Where to buy
Specialist greengrocers and markets in late summer.
Worth knowing
Brush, don't wash — then dry-fry first so they give up their water, and butter at the end.

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