Stuffed Shiitake Mushroom (椎茸の肉詰め), Shiitake Nikuzume, is Shiitake mushrooms stuffed with ground meat and cooked with Teriyaki sauce. It is just like Renkon Hasamiyaki, and the harmony of vegetable and meat is enjoyed with a tasty sweet and salty sauce. Stuffed Shiitake Mushroom is great as a dinner entree and also good for a Bento lunch dish.
Shiitake mushrooms are Japanese mushrooms with a distinctive flavor. Some people may have to get used to it, but a lot of people in the US already like them enough and many local stores carry them today. These flat mushrooms have hard stems, which are usually removed and not eaten. Shiitake are often simply grilled, or chopped and cooked in soups.
Shiitake has a perfect shape as a cup to hold ground meat stuffing once the stem has been removed. Meat for stuffing can be any kind you like. We used chicken but ground pork will work beautifully too. Before stuffing, sprinkle potato starch (or any kind of starch or flour) over the mushrooms so that meat filling adheres well to the mushrooms. We cooked with yummy Teriyaki sauce, but you can just pour on Ponzu sauce after plated if you prefer a fresher taste.
This is another home cooking dish, not restaurant food. That means it’s easy to make at home and super tasty. Go find Shiitake mushrooms at your local stores and try this dish for dinner!
Stuffed Shiitake Mushroom Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 green onions
- 5 oz 150 g ground chicken
- 1 tsp grated ginger root
- 1 Tbsp Katakuriko potato starch
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 6 Shiitake mushrooms
- 1/2 Tbsp oil
- 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 Tbsp Sake
- 1 Tbsp Mirin
- 1/2 Tbsp sugar
Instructions
- Chop onions finely.
- In a bowl add chicken, onions, ginger, potato starch, and salt. Mix very well.
- Remove stems from Shiitake mushrooms. Sprinkle potato starch (not in the ingredient list) lightly over stem side of mushrooms. Then stuff the meat mixture in the mushrooms.
- Heat a frying pan with oil at medium heat. Place mushrooms meat side down first. Cook until browned. Turn, cover, and cook for 3-4 minutes. Lower the heat, and add soy sauce, sake, mirin, and sugar. Cook for a couple of minutes.
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