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porcini

porcini

6 6.2
A wild mushroom with a thick stem and a rich nutty taste used in cooking
  • noun
  • /pɔrˈtʃini/
  • Specialized
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  • The Red Team made quail breast with confit spot prawn, cherries, and porcini.
  • porcini mushrooms
  • wild porcini
  • dried porcini

Examples

  • I admired the discipline of the meticulously chopped sweet potato and mushroom hash piled in a bowl, and its binding of woodsy porcini mushroom cream.

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  • Herb roasted chicken with porcini mushroom stuffing.

  • I just got back from a very quick trip to California for porcini season.

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  • Porcini mushrooms and butter also work really well.

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  • Lunch will be lobster thermidor with a porcini and crème fraîche risotto.

  • These would be roasted in a hot oven for 25 minutes, and the marrow from the smaller bones blended with some soaked porcini mushrooms, a cup of milk infused with thyme, two eggs, and some black pepper.

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  • Sophie ordered fresh tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms, while Emmett asked for a steak, well done.

  • In Venice, we discovered a fabulous creamy wild porcini lasagna at a carry-out near the Rialto Market.

  • In a small bowl, rehydrate the dried porcini mushrooms in 1 cup of hot water for 20 minutes.

Synonyms

cep
vsporcini
  • UK
1 7.7

A large wild mushroom with a thick stem and brown cap that you can eat

is the common name used for the same mushroom
cepe
vsporcini
  • UK
8.8

A large edible wild mushroom like a porcini

is another regional or variant name for the same mushroom
Boletus edulis
vsporcini
  • Specialized
8.6

A large mushroom that is safe to eat with a thick stem and a rounded cap often called porcini

is the everyday culinary name rather than the scientific label

How Edible

truffle
45 6.6
porcini
  • Specialized
6 6.2
Cantharellus
  • Specialized
9.9
toadstool
5 7.6

Surface Forms

porcini singular
porcini plural

Etymology

The word porcini comes from the Italian porco ('pig') and the small ending -ino ('little'), so porcini means 'little pigs'. One popular way to remember it is that pigs were once used to find these big, meaty mushrooms, and that's why porcini now names this rich, tasty mushroom used in cooking.