Mushroom Menu 4 - Chicken Campestris

A main course for four people:

  1. Marinate four chicken breast fillets in dry white wine for three hours.
  2. Chop 1/2Kg of fresh field mushrooms with spring onions; add salt and pepper.
  3. Brush melted butter onto a fillo pastry strip and place the chicken diagonally across one corner, adding a generous portion of mushrooms before wrapping each parcel into a neat triangle. 
  4. Rewrap each portion with a second sheet of fillo pastry and place on a baking tray.
  5. Bake at 190C for 35 minutes or until the pastry is crisp and brown
Agaricus campestris

The Field Mushrooms, Agaricus campestris, is the wild edible fungus most sought after in the British Isles. Although they can be eaten raw, many people find them much more tasty once they have been cooked.

Sheep-grazed hills are particularly good habitat for this species, but they do also appear in lowlands. In autumn can sometimes be collected from parks, playing fields and lawns - if you get up early enough in the morning to be there first.