Braised Mushrooms
By: Anonymous
Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:03am

Ingredients




20 -(up to)
24 Dried black mushrooms
1 slc Fresh ginger root
3 -(up to)
4 tablespoons Oil
1 cup Stock
2 tablespoons Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Salt
3 dsh Sesame oil, more or less

Preparation

1 1. Soak dried mushrooms. Then squeeze dry and cut off stem ends. Mince ginger root. 2 2. Heat oil in a heavy pan. Stir-fry ginger a few times. Add mushrooms and stir-fry gently to coat with oil. 3 3. Add stock, soy sauce and sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring, then simmer, covered, until mushrooms absorb most of the liquid (about 1 hour). 4 4. Sprinkle with salt and sesame oil. Serve hot or cold (whole, sliced, or in bite-size pieces). 5 VARIATIONS: For the soy sauce, substitute sherry. 6 In step 2, brown a crushed garlic clove and remove before adding the ginger and mushrooms. 7 In step 3, add 1 clove star anise.