oyster mushrooms

Sauteed oyster mushrooms, roasted fennel, caramelized onions, coconut milk, on green lentil pasta. The oyster mushrooms add a delicious unami flavor to this homemade pasta dish.

Mushrooms at The Ecology Center, SJC. Oyster mushrooms are popular for cooking, torn up instead of sliced, especially in stir fry or sauté, because they are consistently thin, and so will cook more evenly than uncut mushrooms of other types. Furthermore, it often appears in vegetarian cuisine.