PORTABELLA MUSHROOM ROULADE

Steps:

• Remove gills and stems from portabellos.
• Place on an oiled sheet tray with salt and pepper and bake in a 400 F oven for 15 minutes.
• Remove and cool.
• Roast zucchini or asparagus using this same method.
• To caramelize onions, place chopped onions in a saute pan with 1 T of oil over medium heat and cook until translucent, about 5 to 8 minutes.
• Deglaze with 1/4 cup sherry, lower heat and cook until tender and sweet.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Cool.
• Place cooled mushrooms on a clean working surface (stem side down) and with a sharp knife, butterfly each mushroom, opening them flesh side down.
• Leave 3/4-inch at the end, open mushroom like a book.
• To fill each mushroom, place 2 T of caramelized onions at the center, followed by roasted peppers and zucchini or asparagus.
• Roll mushrooms around filling ingredients.
• Each should look like a big fat cigar.
• Tie roulades with blanched chives or blanched leek tops.
• Potato Cake: After boiling potatoes and yams separately, saute diced onions and leek with 1 T oil over medium heat for approximately 3 minutes, then add minced garlic and cook until soft.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• In a mixer with a paddle, add potatoes and yams and mix on low speed.
• Gradually add onion mixture and bread crumbs.
• The potato mixture should be rustic, not mashed potatoes.
• Season as desired.
• Remove from mixing bowl and form into cakes as you would a hamburger patty.
• Mushroom Demi-Glace: Place mushroom stems and gills in a baking pan along with onions, garlic, carrots and herbs.
• Sprinkle with oil.
• Cover with foil, and bake for 30 minutes at 375 degrees F, then remove foil, add 1 cup of red wine and continue to roast another 15 minutes.
• Remove from the oven, reserve wine and place the solid ingredients in a blender with water (do this in several batches).
• Blend well, until you achieve a watery paste.
• Pass blended mixture through a fine sieve.
• Finally, put the strained sauce in a pan with reserved red wine and reduce to a syrup like consistency.
• Season sauce well.
• Final Preparation and Serving: Place roulades and potato cakes on a sheet tray and place in a 350 F oven for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, warm mushroom demi.
• Place a small ladle of mushroom demi in the center of each plate.
• When potatoes are hot, place one at a time on top of the sauce and place a roulade on top of each cake.
• Ladle a little demi sauce on each of the roulades and top with fried leeks.