Mushrooms in Parmesan Sauce over Toast or Rice

This is delicious! Found it in an older cookbook long ago....I think it was The apartment vegetarian cookbook. I now make it pretty much from memory, since my copy deteriorated into a pile of sauce-covered pages long ago.

1 tablespoon margarine or butter
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/2 pound sliced mushrooms
A bit of salt and pepper
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 cup water or stock
1/2 cup ketchup or catsup or whatever it is...
3/4 cup Parmesan cheese, grated

1 ) Saute onions and mushrooms in butter on medium heat until soft.

2 ) Stir in flour, salt and pepper. Add water and soy sauce a bit at a time until smooth. Cook a few minutes until it starts to thicken, stirring often. Stir in ketchup.

3 ) Slowly stir in Parmesan. Turn heat to low and let sit a few  minutes. Serve over toast or rice.

Yes, the ketchup sounds weird. But it's so good! Also works with chili sauce, spaghetti sauce, and even salsa!

Mushrooms Newburg

Another favorite from

When Charlie and I lived in Atlanta, we sometimes visited a small veggie restaurant  that served one main dish a day. The first time, this was the menu item that we tried, and we loved it! I was quite happy to find that it was from a cookbook that I had!

It's been edited a bit, of course!

1 1/2 lbs. mushrooms, whatever type except dried

2 tablespoons butter or margarine  or olive oil

3 tablespoons (or more) chopped onion


3 tablespoons wine or sherry, if you have it


Sauce:



2 tablespoons flour

2 cups milk

2 egg yolks

2 tablespoons water

salt, pepper, nutmeg

toast, rice or egg noodles


1 ) In a skillet, melt 2 T of butter, then add the whole mushrooms and onion. Saute them until nearly tender. Add the alcohol if you choose to.

2 ) Sprinkle the flour onto the mushrooms. Stir gently, then slowly add the milk. Stir and heat until the sauce thickens a bit.

3 ) Beat the yolks with the water, then add to the milk-mushroom sauce.

4 ) Heat a bit, then add seasonings to taste.

5 ) Serve over toast, rice or noodles.

This feeds four or five people.