Cooking wild mushrooms

October 7, 2011. After you have been so fortunate to find wild edible mushrooms, you may wonder how to cook them....In fact there are many ways of cooking wild mushroom and a couple of good books provide recipes that will satisfy and even delight you appetite. The basic recipes may vary with the mushrooms, their flavor and their texture.  My intention is to provide you with an easy wild mushrooms recipe. A basic recipe that works with many mushrooms.

4 mushrooms caps sliced (I used Agaricus campestris)

2 garlic cloves

2 onions cut in slices

2 spoons of red wine

1/2 teaspoon of brown sugarY

pepper, paprika or your favorite spices

salt

olive oil

(other optional ingredients: chives cut in small pieces or green onions, shallots, liquid honey instead of sugar)

Other mushrooms that can be cooked with this basic 'mushroom recipe' are morels, wine mushrooms, portobello, and chanterelle mushrooms to mention a few.

Instructions:

Stir fry the onions and garlic cloves in olive oil until they are golden. Add the sugar and mushrooms. Stir the mix and and cook at low heat, after 3 minutes or so, add the red wine and the spices. That is it!

note: if you are using sugar you need to let it melt to sweeten the dish. If you are using a variety of onions that turns sweet when it is stir fried then that could be your sweetener instead of sugar. If you use honey, do not cook it. At it at the end and only a few drops (perhaps 1/2 teaspoon).

You really don't need to overcook the muOctober 7, 2011. After you have been so fortunate to find wild edible mushrooms, you may wonder how to cook them....In fact there are many ways of cooking wild mushroom and a couple of good books provide recipes that will satisfy and even delight you appetite. The basic recipes may vary with the mushrooms, their flavor and their texture.  My intention is to provide you with an easy wild mushrooms recipe. A basic recipe that works with many mushrooms.

4 mushrooms caps sliced (I used Agaricus campestris)

2 garlic cloves

2 onions cut in slices

2 spoons of red wine

1/2 teaspoon of brown sugarY

pepper, paprika or your favorite spices

salt

olive oil

(other optional ingredients: chives cut in small pieces or green onions, shallots, liquid honey instead of sugar)

Other mushrooms that can be cooked with this basic 'mushroom recipe' are morels, wine mushrooms, portobello, and chanterelle mushrooms to mention a few.

Instructions:

Stir fry the onions and garlic cloves in olive oil until they are golden. Add the sugar and mushrooms. Stir the mix and and cook at low heat, after 3 minutes or so, add the red wine and the spices. That is it!

note: if you are using sugar you need to let it melt to sweeten the dish. If you are using a variety of onions that turns sweet when it is stir fried then that could be your sweetener instead of sugar. If you use honey, do not cook it. At it at the end and only a few drops (perhaps 1/2 teaspoon).

You really don't need to overcook the muOctober 7, 2011. After you have been so fortunate to find wild edible mushrooms, you may wonder how to cook them....In fact there are many ways of cooking wild mushroom and a couple of good books provide recipes that will satisfy and even delight you appetite. The basic recipes may vary with the mushrooms, their flavor and their texture.  My intention is to provide you with an easy wild mushrooms recipe. A basic recipe that works with many mushrooms.

shrooms. Cooking them a little is good shrooms. Cooking them a little is good to break down their protective walls and access the nutrients. Eating raw mushrooms is almost useless because we do not have enzymes for cellulose or quitina, structural components of mushroom cell walls. 

PS. You can find more wild mushroom recipes and information about edible mushroom at mycomagnet.com the website of  the two of my friends with whom I have enjoyed foraging for mushroomsmycomagnet.com http://mycomagnet.com/