[CH] Mushroom bonanza
Tara Deen (tara@es.usyd.edu.au)
Mon, 22 May 2000 12:17:36 +1000
Hey all,
Well, I've spent the weekend building a new raised vege garden in my new
backyard, courtesy of a tonne of mushroom compost I had delivered during
the week. A bonus of this has been the several kilos of small, but
_very_ fresh mushrooms still in the compost! So while I wait for the
garden to settle, and my green crop to sprout so I can how it in and
start planting, we've been making the most of our mushroom bonanza.
BBQ'd tofu and mushroom kebabs, potato tortilla with bacon (for the
meat-eater) and grilled tomatoes and devilled mushrooms for breakfast,
bourguinon mushroom pasties, mushroom curry with dhal and rice,...it's
all been so yummy!
Mushroom curry (typed from memory, not sure I can remember what I did
exactly)
1 small onion, chopped finely
small amount olive oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
500g really tiny fresh mushrooms, washed (normally you shouldn't, but if
you'd seen how dirty these ones were...)
2 tsp finely grated fresh ginger
4 Thai chiles, finely chopped
1 tsp freshly roasted and ground coriander seed
2 tsp garam masala
juice of 1/2 to 1 lemon or lime, to taste
Heat oil in pan over low heat, gently fry onion until golden. Add garlic
and ginger, fry few minutes more. Add chiles and mushrooms, and spices,
add a small amount of water and lemon juice to taste, cook until
mushrooms are done to taste. Serve with dhal, curry and rice.
Yours in chile-dom,
Tara
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Tara Deen
School of Earth Sciences
Division of Geology and Geophysics
Building FO5
University of Sydney NSW 2006
Phone: 61-2-9351 4271
Fax: 61-2-9351 0184
email: tara@es.usyd.edu.au
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