We’re having a little Korean-inspired moment in the kitchen. So many of the dishes are super simple and really tasty. We had these soy-seasoned mushrooms with a glass of sherry for a starter but they’re a side dish really. A few ingredients that were made for each other and brought together quickly and easily!
Wine Suggestion: An umami-rich dish like this thrives with sherry and the La Gitana Manzanilla with it’s seaside freshness and bone-dry texture did not disappoint. Easy to see this dish in a tapas bar in Cadiz, despite the Korean origins.
Soy-seasoned mushrooms – bo-seot namool – serves 4 as a side dish or nibble with drinks
- 1½ tbsp vegetable oil
- 250g wild mushrooms (we used a mixture of baby shitake and oyster mushrooms), sliced into ½ cm strips
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 tsp roasted sesame seed oil
- 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds
Heat the oil in a wide pan over a high heat.
Add the mushrooms to the hot pan and stir-fry for 30 seconds, then add the soy sauce and garlic. Stir-fry for another minute.
Add the sesame oil and keep going for another minute, keep it moving so the garlic doesn’t burn.
Transfer to a bowl and mix in the toasted sesame seeds, then leave to cool a bit so the flavours come together. You can serve warm or cold.
(Original recipe from My Korean Kitchen by Jordan Bourke & Rejina Pyo, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.)
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My favourite mushroom dish.
Fry a couple of chopped up streaky rashers in a little butter. Add a large crushed clove of garlic. Add a large handful of mushrooms of choice – two handfuls even as they shrink a lot. Fry for a couple of minutes then add a large glass of red wine – something full bodied. Let it bubble for a couple of minutes to reduce – the liquid should go a little syrupy.
Transfer to a bowl, allow to cool, then put in fridge overnight.
The mushrooms marinade in the liquor and will be unctuous the next day.
Stir in a good amount of chopped flat leaf parsley.
Enjoy with crusty bread, and the rest of the red wine you used.
Thanks Kevin, we’ll try this! Hope you guys are well xx