Quick and easy Chinese stuffed mushrooms - recipe
Stuffed vegetables were a speciality of my grandmother, who made them often for her delicious family meals. This basic pork stuffing works well with dried mushrooms, as well as bitter melon, eggplant and medium-hot fresh chillies.
It's best to start soaking the mushrooms the day before. Good dried mushrooms have large, thick caps that need time to hydrate fully, or else you will have a hard, dry part in the centre. If you can afford them, buy dried "flower mushrooms" - a type of shiitake with an attractive pattern of white cracks on the dark surface of the cap.
It can be difficult to judge the number of mushrooms you need for this amount of stuffing. If you have extra soaked mushrooms, thinly slice them and add them to the dish as the ingredients are simmering. If you have extra stuffing, shape it into meatballs and brown them briefly in the hot fat, before cooking with the other ingredients.
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