Mushroom and blueberry crostini with anise
This mushroom crostini provides a lot of exciting flavors. A slice of fried sourdough bread topped with cream cheese, mushrooms, and blueberries with a hint of licorice from star anise.
Ingredients
- 1 slice sourdough bread
- 4 mushrooms white or brown
- 2 tablespoon cream cheese
- 3 tablespoon Blueberries
- 1 star anis or two depending on size.
- 1 garlic clov
- 2 tablespoon butter
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Start by grinding star anise to a coarse powder in a mortar and pestle. Grind the whole stars (both seed and pod) Mince the garlic clove
- Cut the mushrooms into quarters and fry on high temperature with half of the butter. Lower the heat and add garlic and a pinch of anise the last minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Fry the bread slice with the rest of the butter in a skillet until golden brown.
- Spread cream cheese on the bread slice and add the mushrooms.
- Mash half of the bluberries togheter wit a pinch of anise. Spread on top of the mushrooms.
- Garnish with the rest of the blueberries and sprinkle the rest of the anise over the crostini.
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