Chinese Mushrooms, Side dish or Main

[achookwoman]

Chinese Mushrooms.
This is a very versatile dish.  It can be served as a side dish with grilled pork or chicken.
Add noodles and Bok Chow or spinach and it becomes a main vegetarian.
I am serving it tonight with Rice cooked in Coconut water, Grilled Pork Cutlets and silver beet ,  from the garden.

NEED
6 dried Chinese mushrooms , soaked in boiling water for 20 minutes.
1 tablespoon of oil
3 teaspoons of grated fresh ginger.
200g.  fresh mushrooms, I used Swiss Brown.
1 Tablespoon of Hoisin Sauce
1 Teaspoon of Cornflour
1/2 cup of Chicken stock or water

DO

Add oil and ginger to TMX bowl and cook,  5 mins/ 100/sp 1.
Add fresh mushrooms and press  TURBO  for 3 short bursts. the mushrooms should be chunky.
Slice dried Chinese mushroom caps into thin strips and add to TMX bowl.
Add water or chicken Stock, Hoisin sauce and cornflour and cook, 100/ 10 min./ speed 1 / REVERSE.

EXTRAS
SOAKED NOODLES CAN BE FOLDED THROUGH COOKED MUSHROOMS
STEAMED BOK CHOW OR SPINACH CAN BE FOLDED THROUGH COOKED MUSHROOMS.

[judydawn]

That looks really nice Chookie.

[Jude59]

Personally, I am addicted to those mushrooms!  Just love them and this sounds great.

[Amy :-)]

Ohhhh chookie, how did you know how much I love mushrooms? This looks wonderful

[achookwoman]

Had them for dinner tonight.  Good strong Chinese flavour.  Would lift a bland meal,  and with a little more stock would make a sauce. Not at all expensive as would serve 4.

[Bubbles]

This looks great, I will have to try it next week. I haven't heard of hoisin sauce before- Is it similar to oyster sauce? Would it be in that section of the supermarket? Thanks

[judydawn]

Bubbles all supermarkets would have hoisin sauce in the Asian section. 

[Cornish Cream]

Homemade Hoisin Sauce from the cookbook A Year of Slow Cooking by Stephanie O'Dea
4 tablespoons gluten- free soy sauce
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1 tablespoon molasses or honey
2 garlic, cloves
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1 teaspoon hot sauce( she uses either Thai red chilli paste; but says Tabasco would work)
1/8 teaspoon black pepper.
just blitz everything in the TM

[Bubbles]

oh thanks heaps CC!! I have all those ingredients so I'll definitely give that a go. Thanks again

[judydawn]

Thanks for the Hoisin recipe CC, so simple to make.  I remember when you gave that recipe in a link before and I have just printed out the crockpot hoisin chicken wings recipe - DH would love a big pot of those to eat 

[Cornish Cream]

The recipe does look good Judy.