duxelles

American  

[dook-sel] / dukˈsɛl /

noun

1. French Cooking. a mixture of mushrooms, shallots, and herbs, finely chopped, sauteed, and cooked into a paste for use as a seasoning or filling.

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Example Sentences

Feast on affordable, gourmet dishes like a habanero-flecked patty melt or pork loin stuffed with sauteed kale and cremini mushroom duxelles.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

Add a heaping teaspoon of duxelles to each dough shell.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2021

After all, the house is practically the birthplace of an American food icon, where she taught the women of Georgetown how to prepare such meals as oeufs pochés duxelles and poulet saute portugaise.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2019

But the result is more of a cross between tomato paste, old-school mushroom duxelles, and hozon, the proprietary, pasty ferment used to supercharge flavor throughout the Momofuku empire.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2018

Quite a few years back the NYT featured a recipe for sole stuffed lettuce that used blanched Boston lettuce leaves to wrap around sole filets that had been stuffed with a duxelles.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2016