Italian tuna dip and Chicken with wild mushroom lasagne recipes
A marvelous Italian tuna dip to serve with vegetables and Chicken with wild mushroom lasagne is a great idea for an alternative to the traditional food and tastes as good as it looks.
Italian tuna dip recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup sour cream
6 ounces canned tuna, drained and flaked
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
2 hard cooked eggs, diced
1 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons dry Italian salad mix
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together until thoroughly combined. Chill at least 2 hours.
Chicken & wild mushroom lasagne recipe
Ingredients:
For this delicious alternative to a traditional dish, you can use any variety of mushroom such as oyster mushrooms or chanterelles.
Butter for greasing
14 sheets of pre-cooked lasagne
850 ml/1 ½ pints of white sauce
75 g/ 3 oz/ 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
Chicken and Mushroom Sauce:
2 tbsp. olive oil
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 large onion, finely chopped
225 g/8 oz wild mushrooms, sliced
300 g/10 ½ oz/2 ½ cups of minced chicken
80 g/3 oz chicken livers, finely chopped
115 g/ 4oz Parma Ham (prosciutto) diced
150 ml/1 ¼ pint Marsala
1 tbsp. chopped fresh basil leaves
285 g/10 oz can chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp. tomato puree (paste) salt and pepper
Directions:
To make the chicken ad wild mushroom sauce, heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the garlic, onion and mushrooms and cook, stirring frequently for 6 minutes.
Add the minced chicken, chicken livers and Parma ham and cook over a low heat for 12 minutes, until the meat has browned.
Stir the Marsala, tomatoes, basil and tomato puree into the mixture in the pan and cook for 4 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Uncover the pan, stir and simmer for a further 15 minutes.
Lightly grease an ovenproof dish with butter. Arrange sheets of lasagne over the base of the dish, spoon over a layer of chicken and wild mushrooms sauce, then spoon over a layer of white sauce. Place another layer of lasagne sheets on top and repeat the process twice, finishing with a layer of white sauce. Sprinkle over the grated cheese and bake in a preheated oven at 190°C/375°F/Gas 5 for 35 minutes until golden brown and bubbling.
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