Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

This Week's Meals (1/2): Taiwanese Three Cups Mushrooms.

This is a variation of last week's Three Cups Chicken, and honeslty, not as good. And probably not helped by the fact that I think I have sesame COOKING oil, and not sesame FLAVOR oil.

The Three Cups chicken from last week had some good flavor, if a little light. This is very heavy soy flavor. I think the main difference being the chicken used Shaoxing Wine, and this used Sake. What we ended up here with was a very heavy soy sauce flavor.

The mushrooms, though - tasty and flavor soaked. Just very soy saucy.

I'm likely going to remake these dishes with proper toastes sesame oil in the future. But as it stands, they're not bad. They can only get better.

Title: Taiwanese Three Cups Mushrooms
Yield: 2 servings
Category: Entree
Cuisine: Asian/Chinese
Source: Asian Vegan Eats
Website: https://asianveganeats.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/taiwanese-three-cups-mushrooms/

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Ingredients
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1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 inches ginger (thinly sliced)
5 cloves garlic (halved)
3 whole king oyster mushrooms (cut into bite sized pieces)
10 oz oyster mushrooms
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup rice wine
1/2 cup water
1 cup whole Thai basil leaves
1 whole red chili pepper

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Instructions
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1 - Heat up the vegetable oil and sesame oil in a wok on medium high heat.
2 - When the oil is hot, add the ginger and garlic. Cook until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
3 - Add mushrooms. Saute until slightly softened, about 3 minutes.
4 - Add the soy sauce, rice wine and water.
5 - Turn the heat to high. Continue simmeringr the mushrooms in the sauce until the sauce reduces down about 3/4s.
6 - Turn off the heat.
7 - Add basil leaves and red chili pepper (if using it). Mix well. The
heat of the food will wilt the basil leaves.
8 - Serve with a BIG BOWL of rice. Enjoy!

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Notes
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Make 2 servings at ~37.5g of carbs
Normally makes 4 servings.

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Nutritional Information
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*Nutritional information reflects amount per serving.*
CALORIES 329
TOTAL FAT (g) 12
Saturated Fat (g) 2
CHOLESTEROL (mg) 0
SODIUM (mg) 2060
TOTAL CARBOHYDRATE (g) 34
Dietary Fiber (g) 9
Sugars (g) 6
PROTEIN (g) 16

This is totally the chutney they had at my first Indian place. The onion was minced finer than I did it, and it was a bit more watery, but the flavor is exactly the same.

Yum. :)

The very first Indian restaurant I ever went to back in the 90s, had chutneys sitting at the table. Two were the usual ones, which I still see all the time: Mint and Tamarind. But they had a third one I've never seen anywhere else.

AFTER ALMOST THIRTY YEARS I FOUND IT! It's not a tomato chutney like I thought it was, which is why I could never find it. It's an ONION Chutney. I may hit an indian grocery grab some poppadum (they look awesome when you cook them in the microwave), and make some of this for old time's sake: https://www.jcookingodyssey.com/indian-onion-chutney-recipe/

I think i bought the wrong kind of sesame oil. I picked up some for is in Chinese Food, but i think the sesame oil I picked up is a cooking oil replacement and not a flavor. It has no smell or taste at all

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