Braised Mushrooms

Photo: flickr user avlxyz

Ingredients

20 -(up to)

24 Dried black mushrooms

1 slc Fresh ginger root

3 -(up to)

4 tablespoons Oil

1 cup Stock

2 tablespoons Soy sauce

1 teaspoon Sugar

1/2 teaspoon Salt

3 dsh Sesame oil, more or less

1. Soak dried mushrooms. Then squeeze dry and cut off stem ends. Mince ginger root.

2. Heat oil in a heavy pan. Stir-fry ginger a few times. Add mushrooms and stir-fry gently to coat with oil.

3. Add stock, soy sauce and sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring, then simmer, covered, until mushrooms absorb most of the liquid (about 1 hour).

4. Sprinkle with salt and sesame oil. Serve hot or cold (whole, sliced, or in bite-size pieces).

VARIATIONS: For the soy sauce, substitute sherry.

In step 2, brown a crushed garlic clove and remove before adding the ginger and mushrooms.

In step 3, add 1 clove star anise.

8.0 servings

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:03am

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