I like fresh mushrooms, and king oyster mushroom is one of my best favorites. These mushrooms are not so expensive but they are also not considered cheap as compared with other kinds of fresh mushroom (and with my family’s budget). Sometimes the supermarket offers an acceptable price, I often buy these mushrooms and will cook the most delicious dishes with them.
This stir-fried mushroom with sesame in particular is very flavorful and fragrant. The texture of the mushrooms is just great with their distinctive flavor. Furthermore, the sesame oil and sesame seeds make them so aromatic, which reminds me of other Korean foods that often use sesame oil and seeds in cooking. Olive oil is advised, however I think other cooking oil is also fine. My favorite soy sauce is Kikkoman, I always have one bottle of this soy sauce brand in my kitchen. At the supermarket, this soy sauce might be more expensive than the other brands, but one bottle can be used for a long time and in lots of dishes. In return, the foods smell and taste better with this soy sauce. In the long time I think it is quite economic. For the spices, herbs and sauce, I am often willing to pay more for better quality.
Having this mushroom dish made us totally satisfied while thinking about the good health benefits that this mushroom can bring to us.
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With this braised dish, it can be flexible in the way you choose what kind of veggies you want to cook, with the small condition that the vegetables should have something in common such as the texture or the taste. For example, the veggies that have the sweet taste, or become tender after short time of cooking can go well with each other in this dish.
The quantity of each ingredients may vary as well depending on how much of a certain veggie you want to eat more or how much of each veggie you are having in your fridge, and you can adjust accordingly.
I love this dish for its mild sweetness in the taste and the tender texture of the veggies. It is best served with steamed rice.
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Normally I go shopping for fresh food ingredients once a week at weekend. So when it comes near to the weekend, I often run out of main ingredients in large quantity. What still left over after I have cooked other dishes during the week are often few in quantity. So I play around thinking how I can make use of those left-over ingredients so that I can buy all fresh food in my next shopping. I don’t feel comfortabe with leaving fresh food in the fridge week over week.
So this time I cooked this stir-fried dish with vegetables. When I was still living with my mom, she often added lean pork to this dish, which brought in the sweetness from the meat to the dish. However, the dish I cooked here was totally vegetarian.
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