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My Mushroom and Onion Recipe is a perfect topping for chicken, steak, pork, burgers, and more! This easy mushroom sauce recipe takes just 15 minutes to make with 6 simple ingredients. It's a mushroom sauce without cream, so it's light, too!
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Best Mushroom and Onion Recipe
My family loves mushrooms with just about any dish, so I like finding ways to incorporate them into different dinners. One of my favorite ways to do that is with this amazing mushroom and onion recipe!
Sauteed mushrooms and onions make the most delicious sauce for everything from beef, to pork, chicken, and more. I especially love to cook up a batch of mushroom sauce for steak or as a mushroom topping for burgers!
You can make this easy mushrooms and onions sauce with or without a cream sauce, and any recipe you add it to will turn out restaurant-quality. It only takes 15 minutes to make, and just 4 ingredients plus salt and pepper, making it so simple to whip up last minute to add to a dish!
I guarantee you will love this mushroom sauce recipe as much as my family does. Let me know what you add it to in the comments below!
Mushroom Sauce FAQs
Cook until the mushrooms and onions are soft and browned. Once they are both soft and browned all over, they are ready. This should only take about 10-12 minutes total.
If you are slicing mushrooms yourself, you should wash them before sauteing them. Clean your mushrooms of any excess dirt by gently wiping them with a damp paper towel. If you buy sliced mushrooms, they do not need to be washed before sauteing.
If you want to make mushroom sauce with cream, heavy cream will make the creamiest mushroom sauce. However, you can also use milk or half-and-half to make a cream sauce, though it will be less rich and thick. Cream sauces using milk are best thickened using a roux.
To reheat mushroom and onion sauce, add it to a pan over low-medium heat on the stove and cook until heated through, stirring as necessary. Alternatively, you can heat it in the microwave, or by cooking it into whichever dish you intend to serve it with.
Mushroom Sauce without Cream Ingredients
- Unsalted butter
- White mushrooms
- Sweet yellow onion
- Salt and pepper
- Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce is the key ingredient to take these sauteed mushrooms and onions and make them something truly incredible. If you want to change the flavor of your mushroom sauce, you can use an alternative ingredient like red wine or even a steak sauce such as A1.
How to Cook Mushrooms and Onions
Mushroom Sauce without Cream
- In a skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Then, add mushrooms and cook 5 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium and add sliced onion, salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. Cook another 5-7 minutes, until the mushrooms and onions are browned and soft.
Mushroom Sauce with Cream
To make mushroom sauce with cream, follow our Creamy Mushroom Sauce recipe! This is a perfect recipe for adding cream to your sauce for pastas, steak topping, and more.
Recipe Tips
- If the mushrooms and onions soak up too much of the moisture in the pan, add additional Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon at a time to avoid them drying out.
- Do not replace the sweet yellow onion with white or red. A sweet yellow onion is the perfect onion for this dish - white or red onion will change the flavor completely.
- I use white mushrooms in this recipe, but I also enjoy using shiitake mushrooms or baby Portobello mushrooms. Use whichever you prefer, just make sure they're sliced to relatively the same size!
Variations
- Red wine mushrooms and onions: Replace Worcestershire Sauce with equal parts red wine for a slightly sweet alternative that pairs especially well with beef.
- Mushrooms and onions steak sauce: Replace Worcestershire Sauce with equal parts your favorite steak sauce for an alternative using your favorite flavors!
- Mushroom bacon and onions: You can make "mushroom bacon" sauce by adding ½ teaspoon liquid smoke to the dish, along with ½ tablespoon maple syrup as a sweetener. Toss the mushrooms in the liquid smoke and maple syrup to evenly coat them, then follow the recipe as instructed, adding the Worcestershire sauce after reducing the heat. The mushrooms should brown and become nice and crispy.
- Caramelized mushrooms and onions: Cook over medium-high heat. Instead of Worcestershire sauce, use vermouth and 1 Tablespoon sugar. Add the vermouth and the sugar after the mushrooms and onions begin to brown. Be careful when adding alcohol to the dish, as there is a chance of it flaring up. Cook until soft, browned, and caramelized.
What to Serve with Mushrooms and Onions
- Try serving mushrooms and onions sauce with roasted chicken breasts.
- Pork chops make a great pairing with mushrooms and onions.
- Steak is another perfect choice for serving with mushroom sauce, especially steak bites!
- Burgers are incredible when topped with mushrooms and onions. Use swiss cheese for a great pairing.
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- Creamiest Alfredo Sauce Ever
- Creamy Leek Sauce with Chicken
- Creamy Garlic White Sauce
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- Special Burger Sauce
- Meatloaf Glaze
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The Best Mushrooms and Onions Sauce
Equipment
- Skillet
- Spatula or wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 3 Tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 pound white mushrooms sliced
- 1 sweet yellow onion sliced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- In a skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Then, add mushrooms and cook 5 minutes.3 Tablespoons unsalted butter, 1 pound white mushrooms
- Reduce heat to medium and add sliced onion, salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. Cook another 5-7 minutes, until the mushrooms and onions are browned and soft.1 sweet yellow onion, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon pepper, 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Notes
- If the mushrooms and onions soak up too much of the moisture in the pan, add additional Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon at a time to avoid them drying out.
- Do not replace the sweet yellow onion with white or red. A sweet yellow onion is the perfect onion for this dish - white or red onion will change the flavor completely.
- I use white mushrooms in this recipe, but I also enjoy using shiitake mushrooms or baby Portobello mushrooms. Use whichever you prefer, just make sure they're sliced to relatively the same size!
Mariam says
Made this sauce and then added to it seared beef cubes. The beef had some good fat, so I lowered the heat and left it absorb all the flavor. Let's just say I made a bomb dish out of this sauce!
em says
That is awesome, Mariam! We're so glad you enjoyed it! It sounds like it was a truly incredible dish!