Boletus soup ennobled with Sherry
Pair with Palo Cortado
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the mushrooms and fry them dry so that the possible liquid is being removed. Mince the onions, crush the cloves of garlic, and add them together with the butter on the pan. Sweat, until the onions soften.
Add the spelt wheat floue, mis and add sherry. Let it boil for a little while. Add the chicken broth and cream and let it boil for 10 more minutes. Drive till smooth with a blender.
Cut three slices of rye bread as cubes and fry them as crispy croutons in butter. Fry also the bolete slices and bacons till crispy. Roast the hazel nuts on a hot, dry pan so that the skins start to fall off and they start to emit an aromatic flavor. Roll the skins out of the hazel nuts under a kitchen cloth.
Place the bacons, rye bread croutons and fried penny bun slices on each plate and pour the hot soup on top of them. Decorate with coarse-grounded hazel nuts and fresh salvia leaves. Serve with Palo Cortado sherry.

serving and consuming
Pairing Palo Cortado with food
"Meditation wine," ideal to be slowly appreciated, to become totally immersed in the full range of well balanced sensations this exceptional wine has to offer. It may accompany nuts, cured cheeses and, at the table, the more concentrated consommés, stews and gelatinous meats (bull's tail, cheeks...)
Palo Cortado fast facts

Analytic data
- Alcoholic content between 17 & 22% vol.
- Sugar < 5 gr. / litre (normally < 1 gr. / litre)
- Total Acidity (tartaric) 4 - 6 gr. / litre
- Volatile Acidity (acetic) < 0,8 gr. / litre
- High in Gylcerine Content 8 - 10 gr. / litre
