For those who like stroganoff, but want to change the dish: use mushroom!
If one day you find pickled shimeji mushroom and at a good price (generally, it’s expensive), but I wasn’t sure what to do: mushroom stroganoff!
My version was vegan, because instead of cream I used cream with UHT almonds. It is a product purchased ready-made and comes in a box, the recipe below says cute.
But if you want (or you didn’t find cream with almonds) you can use regular cream, but then the dish is vegetarian just.
The dish was ready, I thought the flavor was the same as the traditional one (apart from the sauce). But of course the texture is different, right? If you like mushrooms, it’s another option. And yes, sauté that mushroom properly to make it golden.
Shimeji Mushroom Stroganoff
Makes: 2 portions
- 10 mL oil (any variety)
- 200 g shimeji mushroom (pickled; drained)
- 1/2 unit onion (chopped)
- 2 teeth garlic (chopped)
- 25 mL water
- 200 g cream with UHT almonds (or UHT cream; see note)
- 60 g ketchup
- 5 g yellow mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon sweet smoked paprika
- refined salt (August)
- Black pepper (August)
- Nutritional yeast (to taste; optional)
1 cup: 250mL | 1 tablespoon: 15mL.
- Heat the olive oil and sauté the mushroom in a frying pan over medium heat, stirring for about 7-8 minutes or until the mushroom is lightly golden.
- The mushroom used was pickled shimeji, that is, it was preserved in liquid. It drains very well and that’s why the sautéing time takes a while, it has a lot of moisture.
- Add the chopped onion and garlic, sauté for another 2-3 minutes.
- Add water and mix well.
- Add the cream with almonds, ketchup, mustard, paprika and stir well.
- Let it cook for another 1-2 minutes.
- Adjust the seasoning with paprika, refined salt and black pepper. The paprika helps make it redder, if you want you can add more ketchup too.
- If you want, you can also add nutritional yeast to give it more of that earthy, umami mushroom background. Nutritional yeast is not inactive brewer’s yeast.
- Cook for 1-2 minutes if you want it to be thicker. If it is too thick, add 10-20mL of water and mix well.
- Serve with white rice and potatoes chips.
- Cream of/with almonds: it is a ready-made product and comes in a box, I used the brand Almond Breeze. I received a sample from the company. If you want, you can use regular boxed cream too, in which case it’s just vegetarian and not vegan.
- Nutritional yeast: it is a flaky-looking seasoning widely used in vegan cuisine, it has an earthy flavor (?) and helps with the umami taste as well. In English it is called nutritional yeastis sold in health food stores.
