Recipes

Mushroom delights

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Nearly all recipes are aimed at non-vegetarians. But hang on a minute, you don’t have to be a chef to make a good vegetarian diet - mushroom is a good solution out in the open

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Seetha MAHENDRA

Mushrooms do not just give out a wonderful taste, but it guarantees your health too. As long as it is accessible in the closest market, you have nothing to worry as a vegetarian. Did you know that your mushroom meal gives you phosphorus, magnesium, potassium - all these rarely found in highly processed food? Plus this meal hasn’t got fat or cholesterol at all.

Gardening the vegetables is a common practice now, but I would advise you against mushroom gardening. You have to be a sort of an expert to differentiate the toxic ones - which can be lethal at times - from good ones. So better bank on what the market sells.

The following mushroom recipes are mainly batters, but of two different kinds: gram flour and egg. They are both high protein, and a good replacement for the meat. But please make sure to use salt very sparingly, because large amounts not only ruin your favourite dish, but it affects your health too.

It doesn’t take more than half an hour when you get used to this recipe. So over to you to feel the heavenly delight of mushrooms!

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Egg batter mushroom

Ingredients:

3 Eggs
2 Garlics, cored and chopped
1 packet of mushroom
Salt
Chilli powder
Vegetable oil
Black pepper
Flour
Soya Sauce

Method:

Beat the eggs well. Mix it with flour to make an egg batter. Add garlics, chilli powder, soya sauce and black pepper to the batter. In the meanwhile smash the mushroom into small pieces. Soak the smashed mushroom in the batter, and deep fry until turns gold. You can pour soya sauce to make it delicious, before serving.

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Fried mushroom in gram flour batter

Ingredients:

1 packet of mushroom
Salt
Chilli
Vegetable oil
Black pepper
2 Onion, cored and chopped
Gram flour
Soya Sauce
Curry leaves
Water

Method:

Smash mushroom into small pieces and place it in a separate bowl. Add chilli, salt, and black pepper to the bowl. Add water to gram flour to make the batter. Soak the mushroom pieces in the gram flour batter, and deep fry until it turns gold.

Place another pan with vegetable oil on the heat and mix it with chopped onions and curry leaves. Add the fried mushroom into this pan and stir well. This will make the dish crispy.

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