Button Mushrooms in Soy Sauce

Name: Button Mushrooms in Soy Sauce
Yield: Serves 2-4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 teaspoon sugar; 2 tablespoons rice wine or dry sherry; 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce; 2 teaspoons oil, preferably groundnut; 450 g (1 lb) small whole button mushrooms

Preparation info

Serves
2-4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ken Hom's Vegetarian Cookery

By Ken Hom

Published 1995

About

Button mushrooms are unknown in the East, but I have found that they, like all good edible fungi, are perfectly amenable to Chinese and other Southeast Asian spices and seasoning.

Ingredients

2 teaspoons oil, preferably groundnut
2 garlic cloves, crushed
450

Asia
China
Vegan

Method

Heat a wok or large frying-pan and add the oil. Put in the garlic and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add the mushrooms and stir-fry for 1 minute. Stir in the soy sauce, sugar and rice wine. Turn the heat down and simmer slowly for 5 minutes, stirring from time to time. When the mushrooms are cooked, turn the heat back to high and continue stirring until most of the liquid has evaporated and the dish