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 Nimono (椎茸の煮物) is dried Shiitake mushrooms, rehydrated, cooked, and seasoned with a sweet and salty flavor. Shiitake Nimono can be eaten as is for everyday meals or used as one part of Osechi Ryori, the New Year’s feast.
Shiitake Kombu Tsukudani is rehydrated dried Shiitake mushrooms and Kombu seaweed that are cooked and seasoned mainly with sugar and Soy Sauce. It is a great accompaniment for plain Steamed Rice for its strong sweet and salty flavor. You can use it to top a bowl of plain Steamed Rice or with Ochazuke, rice and tea.
There are a lot of kinds of mushrooms in Japanese cuisine, but here we have a dish using the three most easily accessible ones: Shiitake, Shimeji, and Enoiki (Enokitake). This Sauteed Mushrooms with Soy Butter Sauce is a wonderful side dish to any kind of entree, even non-Japanese food. And also this mushroom dish will bring the taste of fall to your tabl