What to do with these ..... ?

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I have just received daughter's second Christmas Present ...

Gawd, A lovely thought, but what on earth do I do with all these ? Enough fungus for a family of 4+ never mind a single person eating alone.

[Seatallan Profile]

Well, wild mushroom stroganoff certainly springs to mind. Mushroom risotto, mushroom soup (you could freeze that). You could preserve some if you have time? (see below for example):

https://larderlove.com/garlic-mushrooms-oil/

Looks wonderful but I do see the problem!

[Suffs Profile]

I could pop over and help you eat them …

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

The company who supplied them also have a website with recipes, so I will look there first.

Coincidentally, Marco Pierre White, who is punting an online vegetarian cooking course with the BBC and with a pullout in last Saturday's Mail, has a recipe for 'Meaty Pappardelle' with Ragu of mushrooms, using King Oyster mushrooms as the pappardelle, and other mushrooms for the ragu ...

MPW also cooks a couple of his veggie recipes Sous Vide ...

[WWordsworth Profile]

I think Kacey makes a mushroom ragu but I can't remember whose recipe she bases it on.
Not v helpful, I know.

[smitch Profile]

I think Kacey uses Ottolenghi’s recipe. I don’t know if this is it, but the recipes on here look nice https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/16/yotam-ottolenghi-mushroo-recipes-ragu-aioli-lasagne

Mushroom pappardelle is lovely and I adore garlicky mushrooms on toast.

[scullion Profile]

i think you would easily be able to use them quite quickly - they'll shrink down quite a lot with cooking.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I have up to 4 days to deal with them ... but I already have mushrooms in the fridge that need to be eaten too ... ... I will attempt to freeze some of them after a briefly frying them and even try dry them, but will have to use the oven as I don't have a dehydrator.

[miss mouse Profile]

but will have to use the oven as I don't have a dehydrator.

I find that they dry in the fridge if kept in an open box/tray. Some paper towel below can help as well.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

Sunday is allocated to dealing with them... I'll report back

[liketocook Profile]

Do you have a air fryer Patsy or a similar function on your multi pot. At the lowest setting it pretty much works like a dehydrator just keep an eye. DS2 dried mushrooms in his air fryer after buying a huge pack on reduced to clear and it worked really well.

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

LTC

Does it really.
That's brilliant to know. I can try it with a multitude of things then. For example the large punnet of strawberries that I've got in the fridge.

Nice one

[liketocook Profile]

Gill DS2 got a decent result. His air fryer has a lowest temp of 80C and that was fine. Well worth trying with some strawberries though they're a bit wetter than mushrooms so not sure how long they'd take.

[scullion Profile]

maybe cut them in quarters?
most of the dried strawberries you can buy are freeze dried, aren't they - i would try some of them open frozen if i were you - mind you they would be gone too quick for trying to dry them!

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

Do you have a air fryer Patsy or a similar function on your multi pot. At the lowest setting it pretty much works like a dehydrator just keep an eye. DS2 dried mushrooms in his air fryer after buying a huge pack on reduced to clear and it worked really well.

I only have the basic Instant Pot; same as PP - before they invented all the different combinations ....

[Kacey Profile]

That's exactly the recipe I use for the mushroom ragu. It really is unbeatable. The ragu is brilliant added to pasta, used as a vegetarian shepherds pie base, lasagne filing with extra tomatoes, add a bit of dill and nutmeg and it works well in a veggie moussaka. I've even added Moroccan/Tunisian style spices and used it in filo pastry to make a vegetarian borek.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I'm thinking Mushroom Stroganoff and the mushroom steamed pudding Gary Rhodes did for Christmas one year - which I think could be made with a variety of mushrooms. I haven't a T&T recipe for either (the stroganoff recipe I have is very vegan and would not be to everyone's taste) but there are examples below.

https://www.indiadivine.org/content/top ... eam-sauce/

https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/re ... stroganoff

[Lokelani Profile]

I have a craving for really buttery mushrooms on toast now!

I tried the king oyster mushrooms from Ocado a while back, only got one or 2 for quite a lot of money. Sliced into flat pieces they shrunk like all mushrooms do when cooked.

Probably because I like mushrooms really overcooked until they are quite dried out & incredibly intense in flavour they wouldn't last me very long........

What a lovely gift for a foodie.

[Amyw Profile]

https://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/mushroom-pate This mushroom pate is nice on top of hot toasted baguette

[Renee Profile]

Thanks for the recipe Amy!