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Supper Club: Spice up your midweek meal with a Danish take on mushroom risotto


By Meg Walker
17th Jan 2024
Supper Club: Spice up your midweek meal with a Danish take on mushroom risotto

The weather hasn't exactly been stellar lately so a warming bowl of Danish grød may be exactly the thing to lift your spirits.

Porridge or grød is the closest the Danes come to a risotto. They don’t use rice but instead make the most of the grains they have on hand – barley, oats and wheat.

Barley & mushroom grød

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 litre chicken or vegetable stock
  • 350g mixed seasonal mushrooms, such as shiitake, chestnut, chanterelle, king, oyster and beech, sliced if large and stems finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp grapeseed or sunflower oil
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 225g pearled barley
  • 100ml dry white wine
  • 75g Vesterhavsost or Parmesan cheese, finely grated
  • 25g unsalted butter
  • 150g mixed baby Swiss chard or beetroot greens

Method

  1. Pour the stock into a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
  2. Heat the oil in large, deep frying pan and cook the onion for 5-8 minutes until tender. Add any chopped mushroom stems and cook to just soften. Add the barley to the pan and stir to coat, then add the wine and leave to bubble for 2-3 minutes. Stir in 2 ladles of the stock and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Keep adding stock, a few ladlefuls at a time, until almost all of it is used and the barley is tender; the barley will take about 25 minutes to cook and should still be a touch nutty to the bite. Season, then remove from the heat and stir in the cheese. Cover and leave for 5 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a large frying pan and cook the sliced mushrooms over very high heat until golden and just softened. Stir in the greens and cook until just wilted. Uncover the porridge and stir, adjusting the seasoning with salt if necessary. Add a little more stock if it’s too thick, it should be loose and creamy. Spoon the mushrooms and greens over the top and serve with extra cheese.

Extracted from Copenhagen Cult Recipes by Christine Rudolph and Susie Theodorou (Murdoch Books).

Photography by Christine Rudolph.