Lots of Mushrooms. What to do with them?

Penelope_Penguin

I'll add this to the exisiting mushrooms thread

Penny. x

oystercatcher

CAT££ wrote: »

Hi

You could make mushroom soup, very satisfying this time of year. Look up recipe on google, lots of nice soup recipes on there.

Or you could plunge mushrooms in boiling water, then immediately into cold water, then freeze. This is handy to add to dishes in the future that requires mushrooms.

Hope it's a help.

I just chop mine and freeze haven't had problems.
Can't be doing with hassle ...

Oystercatcher

OddjobKIA

am going to dry some mushrooms now

wogglemaker

Mushroom & Brie/Camembert baked tater filling serves 4

15g butter
1 small onion finely chopped
1 clove garlic - crushed
200g mushrooms (or more if greedy)
1 tbsp worcester sauce
salt & pepper
150 g brie (or in proportion to mushrooms)
4 baked taters
2 tbs snipped fresh chives
Melt the butter in a frying pan & fry onions until soft. Add the garlic and mushrooms and stir over a low heat for 5 mins or until the mushrooms are soft.

Stir in the worcester sauce & seasoning. hop the Brie and stir into the mixture until the cheese just begins to melt.
cut the potatoes in half and scoop out the flesh, leaving a thick shell. Mix the flesh into the mushrooms and season well with salt & pepper

Spoon back into the potatoes and serve hot sprinkkle with snipped chives.

Alternatively skip the last two instructions and just pile the mushroom mix into the middle of split baked taters

hullight

So far I've only ever used mushrooms in chicken casserole and omelette.

I've got some chestnut mushrooms, can I use them in the same way?

DitaBombita

sunnth wrote: »

I love mushroom stroganof and this is the approx. recipe I use.

Fry a sliced onion (or two) for a few minutes then add loads of thick sliced mushrooms and a little extra oil if needed. Continue to fry for 5 mins or so until slightly softened then add vegetable stock to just cover. I like a mix of stock and red wine if I have any as it gives the dish a darker colour and flavour. Simmer for 10 minutes or so until stock is reduced to hardly anything, take off the heat and add a pot of sour cream or natural yoghurt stirring it in a little at a time to stop it curdling. Quick and cheap, lovely with pasta or rice and good made with other veg like peppers for a mixed veg stroganof. I think my original recipe came from the grub on a grant cookbook which I still use sometimes as it has some great cheap recipe ideas.

I second Mushroom Stroginoff - in fact im having it for tea tonight with jacket pots and salad. As with lots of things tends to taste better the day after making it - freezes well too. yum. (wish I had too many Mushroms)

joan_brennan

hi peps would appreciate your ideas on this one. Preferably before hubby gets home ...it was a bargain (says i) oh god (says he).
I needed spuds and was dropping himself off at the bus stop right near the saturday market. hum i thought i 'll get a sack while i'm here. unfortunately i also got 3lb mushrooms £1.50 4lb onions £1.00 3lb carrots £1.00 a cabagge and a cauli £1.00 by the way the spuds were £6.00 so how to conceal the stuff is my main purpose because my usual trick is to leave it to fester for a month or two and then chuck it all out. i usually use about half of any of it.
thanks in anticipation:beer:

EssexHebridean

Yum yum - mushrooms!You could make mushroom omlettes with some, would make a nice tea with some cheese in there too. (Our tomorrow night's tea, by coincidence). Fry them off gently in a little butter to have on toast for brekkie tomorrow as a treat. Fry them off gently in a little butter with some garlic added as a vegetable accompaniment to a main meal.

Some small mushrooms could go whole into the pot with potato, carrot, onion, other stew veg, stock and whatever meat you have handy to make a tasty stew for one night in the week. Chuck the lot in the SC in the morning and two for the price of one - a delicious meal and a wonderful smelling house by evening! :rotfl: Cabbage wil go with carrot and onion to do a stir fry of some form of coleslaw, and frankly I think there is little better use for a cauliflower than that good old fashioned favourite cauliflower cheese - I usually do mine with macaroni and some chopped cooked bacon stirred into the sauce.

purplepardalis

Mushroom soup.....

Make with thyme and some garlic, a splash of white wine and some good stock.

Fry off mushroom with diced onion and garlic, add the thyme

Slosh in the wine and reduce, add the stock and simmer for 20 mins.

Take off the heat and add some double cream (yum) And season with salt and black pepper


Blitz with stick blender. Can be chilled for a few days and even frozen.

sexykellylovespink

garlic mushrooms
mushroom stroganoff
mushroom curry
chicken and mushroom pie
mushroom pasta





i also add mushrooms to casseroles,omlettes,stews, chilli, bolognese