Mushroom Rice
Crafting this mushroom rice is a straightforward process resulting in a palate-pleasing dish. It entails sautéed button mushrooms, a medley of spices, and fragrant herbs blended harmoniously with cooked rice.
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked rice or ⅔ cup uncooked rice – preferably basmati rice or any long grained rice
- 400 grams white button mushrooms – cleaned and chopped or 4 cups chopped white button mushrooms
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon roasted crushed sesame seeds
- ½ teaspoon thyme
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- 3 to 4 spring onions or scallions – chopped (reserve the greens for garnishing) – about ½ cup
- 1 teaspoon garlic , finely chopped – optional
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper or white pepper
- salt as required
Instructions
- Before you begin the recipe, cook about ⅔ cup of rice until tender and softened. Cool the rice grains completely.
- You can cook or steam the rice in a stovetop pressure cooker, pan or Instant pot adding water as needed.
- In a pan heat olive oil. You can also use any neutral flavored oil.
- Add the chopped garlic and saute for some seconds. No need to brown the garlic.
- Then add chopped scallions (spring onion whites). Begin to saute the spring onions stirring often.
- Saute till the spring onions become translucent and have softened. Now add chopped mushrooms. Initially the mushrooms will leave water.
- Saute them until all the water evoapartes from the pan and the mushrooms are completely cooked.
- Add ground black or white pepper, crushed white sesame seeds, thyme and oregano to the mushrooms. Mix well.
- Now add the cooked rice and salt as required. The rice has to be completely cooled before you add it at this step.
- Mix and saute the rice with the mushrooms for a couple of minutes.
- Garnish with the scallions greens or cilantro.
- Serve mushroom rice hot or warm with a salad or you could just drizzle some extra virgin olive oil to the rice and enjoy the bowl of mushroom rice.
Nutrition
Calories: 255kcalCarbohydrates: 34gProtein: 7gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 783mgPotassium: 460mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin C: 3.6mgCalcium: 26mgIron: 1.1mg
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