If you don't have any shiitake mushrooms available for your homemade soup, these two alternatives should work just as well, ...

Fresh and dried shiitake mushrooms are a popular ingredient ... adds a rich quality to many vegetarian and vegan recipes. In Japan, they use them as the base for vegetarian dashi, and, in China ...

If you can afford them, buy dried "flower mushrooms" - a type of shiitake with an attractive ... When the mushrooms are cooked, use tongs to take them from the skillet and arrange them over ...

Dried shiitake mushrooms also have powerful flavour and ... Squeeze dry and chop — and use the flavoursome soaking water in the same recipe if possible. Fresh shiitake mushrooms are also ...

Place whole mushrooms in pot with water and bring to ... top individual servings with toasted or hot sesame oil as desired and serve. Recipe from Clean Start by Terry Walters/Sterling Epicure ...

Shiitake are now cultivated in Britain and can be bought fresh or dried. Snip off the hard stems (but don’t discard them – add to soups and stock). Shiitake go well with pork, meat and steamed ...

Mix up the veg if you wish to make use of what ... to soups and stock). Shiitake go well with pork, meat and steamed fish; they can also be mixed with ordinary cultivated mushrooms.