Most housewives are used to the fact that domestic mushrooms are used in recipes: boletus, mushrooms, honey mushrooms, etc. Japanese shiitake have been especially popular in the last few years. This is an unusual edible mushroom that grows on dead wood.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
When choosing mushrooms, you need to start from the following factors:
- Colour. Fresh and usable shiitake should have a light shade, a bit like ordinary mushrooms;
- Smell. Japanese mushrooms are characterized by a rich and specific aroma;
- Structure. The surface of the fungus should not be slippery, but a bit dull.
Product preparation consists of several points. First you need to rinse and clean the mushrooms from dirt. After that, they are soaked in clean salted water for 20 minutes to get rid of bitterness.
Before you prepare various dishes from mushrooms, you should dry them on a napkin. The more liquid there is on the fruit bodies, the fresher the dish will be.
Did you know? In 1969, a medicine called lentinan was derived on the basis of the shiitake mushroom. It is used to treat malignant and benign tumors.
Shiitake mushroom recipes
Using shiitake in the home kitchen, you can cook a huge number of different recipes. On the Internet sites there is always a huge list of dishes that professional chefs and beginners in the field of cooking can do.
Japanese mushrooms can be boiled, dried, fried and even frozen. It all depends on what purpose you will use them for. By the way, dried fruit bodies must be soaked for 2 hours in pure water before cooking, so that they become softer. You can replace these mushrooms with fleshy varieties: champignons, oyster mushrooms, etc.
Fried with sour cream
800 g50-60 minutes
vegetable oil
3 tbsp. l (for frying)
ground black pepper
0.5 tsp
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut the mushroom caps into small pieces and pour boiling water over them.
- While they are insisting to soften, heat the pan.
- Throw the mushrooms in a colander, let all the excess moisture drain.
- In a dry frying pan, you need to fry the shiitake so that all the water evaporates.
- When there is no liquid in the pan, add vegetable oil. Fry for 5-7 minutes.
- While mushrooms are fried, finely chop onions.
- Add it to the shiitake fruit bodies.
- When the onion begins to acquire a golden hue, add salt.
- Pour in sour cream.
- Fry all the ingredients for about 3 minutes.
- Add 250 ml of water and simmer for 30 minutes over low heat.
Important! This dish is best combined with potatoes due to the juiciness of both products.
Boiled
500 g60–70 minutes
pure filtered water
1 liter
seasonings (optional)
2 tbsp. l
greens (parsley, dill, cilantro, basil)
1 bunch
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- If you cook boiled shiitake, then first of all you need to cut them into small pieces.
- Pour them with water and let it brew for 20 minutes.
- Put the container on high heat and cook for 30 minutes.
- Add salt, spices and herbs.
- Cook another 20 minutes.
- Let the mushrooms brew for 5–10 minutes and serve them with side dishes (cereals, mashed potatoes or use to make soup).
Snack from Julia Vysotskaya
500 g30–40 min.
vegetable oil
5 tbsp. l
Brown sugar
1 tbsp. l
ground pepper black
0.5 tsp
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Rinse the mushrooms and cut each fruiting body into 2 parts.
- Peel the garlic and chop it in the garlic.
- Heat vegetable oil in a pan and add mushrooms to it. Fry them for 3 minutes.
- Add sauces, marjoram, sugar, garlic and cook all the ingredients over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Pepper and serve a delicious snack on the table.
Important! Since shiitake mushrooms have a specific and unusual taste, try to use neutral vegetable oil. It should not have a pronounced aroma and taste.
Creamy Mushroom Soup
1.7 kg 40–45 minutes
vegetable oil (preferably olive)
1 tbsp. l
salt, black pepper
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Washed and slightly dried mushrooms should be chopped with small plates. Put the legs of the mushroom to the side, because they do not need to be cut.
- Peel the onions and carrots. Grind vegetables into medium sized cubes.
- Put vegetables and both types of mushrooms in a hot pan. Sauté until golden with vegetable and butter.
- Add thyme, salt, pepper to them. Simmer for 5 minutes, then add 1 liter of clean water.
- Once the mixture boils, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for another 30 minutes.
- Pour the flour thoroughly to prevent lumps from forming.
- Pour in the wine and cream. Mix well.
- Boil for another 10 minutes.
- Serve the soup hot, after decorating it with chopped parsley.
Did you know? In China and Japan, shiitake are used to treat many diseases. In particular: obesity, high blood cholesterol, impotence.
Dried
400 g5–5.5 hours
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Clean the mushrooms from dirt and foreign objects.
- Cut them into thick plates.
- Place on a baking sheet and place in the preheated oven for 2.5 hours. The temperature should be within + 50 ° C.
- When the mushrooms dry out and decrease in size, spread them on one baking sheet and put in the oven for 1.5 hours at a temperature of + 70 ° C.
- After the specified time, make the temperature + 60 ° C and place for another 2 hours.
- Arrange the dried mushrooms in containers where they will be stored all the time until they are used for making any recipes.
With walnuts
800 g20-30 minutes
peeled walnuts
250 g
dry wine (red)
3 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Finely chop the pre-prepared shiitake and place in a deep saucepan.
- Salt and add 200 g of water to stew the ingredients well.
- Grind the nuts in a mortar and mix with chopped garlic and herbs.
- Add wine and a little salt to the nut mass. Mix well.
- Combine the nuts with the mushrooms and continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
- Serve chilled or hot. Do not forget to decorate with chopped herbs.
With potato
700 g40–50 min.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut the potatoes into large pieces. It must be cooked for at least 40 minutes until fully cooked.
- Fresh or infused mushrooms need to be finely chopped.
- Cut the onion into small cubes.
- Heat a pan with butter. Fry mushrooms and onions on it. You need to cook them for at least 10 minutes.
- At the end of cooking, add salt, pepper.
- Pour in the cream and simmer all the ingredients for 10 minutes.
- Put boiled potatoes on the bottom of the plate, and on top lay a little onion with shiitake.
- Sprinkle with chopped herbs and serve.
So, now you know that cooking shiitake mushrooms at home is not as difficult as it might seem. In addition to all the above recipes, you can freeze fresh fruiting bodies, and then use them to prepare delicious dishes.
