4 cups sliced baby portobello mushrooms (or any other kind of mushrooms you prefer), sliced
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
A few springs fresh thyme
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees
In a large dutch oven or heavy bottomed pot, add a bit of olive oil
When the oil is hot, add your onions, garlic, and thyme. Season with salt and pepper
Saute, stirring often, until the onions have softened
Deglaze the pan with the sherry, and cook until most of the sherry has absorbed into the onion mixture
Add the rice and stir to combine
Add 5 and 1/2 cups of the beef stock, reserving the remaining 1/2 cup for later
Season with salt and pepper
Bring this mixture to a boil
When boiling, turn off the heat, place the lid on your pot, and place the pot in your preheated oven
Bake for 1 hour
When there is about twenty minutes left, start on your mushrooms
Add your olive oil and butter into a large skillet. Place the thyme sprigs and crushed garlic cloves in the pan as well
When your butter is melted, add your mushrooms and stir to combine
Cook over medium/medium-high heat until your mushrooms have cooked down and browned. How much you cook them will depend on the texture you prefer your mushrooms to be
When they are done cooking, remove the garlic cloves and the thyme sprigs, and season the mushrooms to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside until rice is done
When the rice is ready to come out of the oven (when your hour is up), take the pot out of the oven, remove the lid, and add in your heavy cream, beef stock and parmesan cheese
Stir everything together for about two minutes so that the starches from the rice combine and make everything nice and creamy
Stir in the mushrooms and season to taste with salt and pepper