Mushroom Strudel





Mushroom Strudel

Ingredients
3 T Butter
1 ea Large onion, chopped
1/3 c Diced sweet red pepper
2 ea Cloves garlic minced
7 c Sliced mushrooms
1/2 t Salt
1/2 t Pepper
1/2 t Thyme
2 t Lemon juice
1/2 c Diced black forest ham
1/2 c Shredded mossarella cheese
1/4 c Minced fresh parsley
2 T Fine bread crumbs
8 ea Sheets phyllo pastry
1/3 c Melted clarified butter
2 t Dijon mustard
1/4 c Grated parmesan cheese

Recipe
In large frying pan, melt 3 tablespoons butter over medium heat.
Cook onion, red pepper and garlic until softened, about 5 minutes.
Add mushrooms, increase heat to medium high and cook, stirring often, until mushrooms are tender and all moisture has evaporated.
Season with salt, pepper, thyme and lemon juice.
Remove from heat, stir in ham, mozzarella cheese, parsley and breadcrumbs.
Taste and adjust seasoning.
Let cool.
Divide mushroom filling in two portions.
Brush 4 sheets of phyllo pastry lightly with melted butter, stack neatly one on top of the other.
About 1 inch from one long edge of phyllo pastry, spread half of mustard in a 2 inch wide strip, leaving a 1 inch border on both sides.
Over mustard, spread half of the mushroom filling.
Dust filling and phyllo pastry with half the parmesan cheese.
Turn up bottom edge of pastry over mushroom filling, turn both side edges in the brush this exposed phyllo pastry on bottom and edges with butter.
Roll up, jelly roll fashion, loosely but compactly.
Place, seam down, on baking sheet.
Repeat with remai