A Marx Foods customer going by the web pseudonym “Old Gator” was kind enough to share his tantalizing recipe for matzo brei made with a blend of hedgehog mushrooms, chanterelles, and black trumpet mushrooms.  It looks like an incredible upgrade for a classic Passover dish!

You crumble a couple of sheets of matzo – preferably a very thin Passover style matzo (though the health conscious amongst us can happily default to whole wheat matzo too) – and soak it in three or four well beaten eggs with a tablespoon of cream or half and half and salt and pepper to taste. Dice up a medium onion or a handful of scallions, two or three crushed and diced garlic cloves, salt, pepper, a little tarragon and a dash of nutmeg and sauté this in about three tbsp butter in a saucepan until the onions are transparent. Then roughly chop the mushrooms – I used the hedgehogs, chanterelles and black trumpets – to yield about two thirds of a cup when chopped. Saute those with the onion mixture over medium heat until the mushrooms soften and the aroma starts making you drool (this is all very precise and scientific). Then pour the matzo and egg mixture over it, stir it around a bit, cover and let it set up like a frittata. Thet thar is breakfast. Matzo never had it so good. Neither did those visiting relatives.

A variation, which works well: crumble one sheet of the matzo very finely into the egg, cream, salt and pepper mixture and let soak. Pour the sautéed mushroom mixture into the matzo and egg mixture in a bowl and mix. Heat up some coconut oil in a frying pan over high heat (I fry in coconut oil because of its easy digestibility and its very neutral flavor). Break the second sheet of matzo into roughly 2” squares. Make “sandwiches” of these squares with the mushroom, egg and finely crumbled matzo mixture, letting each “sandwich” soak in the beaten egg mixture for a few minutes to moisten thoroughly but not get too soft. Using a spatula, transfer the “sandwiches” into the coconut oil and fry until golden on both sides. Drain on paper towel and serve. You can probably think up some sauces for the “sandwiches” but frankly, they don’t need ‘em. These things disappeared off the platter so fast I thought for a minute they had encountered an equal portion of anti-matter.

Of course you know where this can lead – to a sort of French toast stuffed with the mushroom mix, too.

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