What are your favourite mushroom recipes? Share with The UK and Ireland Mushroom Producers

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Mealtimes can be a challenge, from ensuring we’re getting all the nutritious goodness from foods to making a dish suitable for the whole family. It means that most of us have to get creative in the kitchen with ingredients and recipes.
One of the foods we often use in cooking are mushrooms, as high in antioxidants and packed with various vitamins and minerals*.

The UK and Ireland Mushroom Producers want to find out your favourite recipes that include mushrooms, so other families can be inspired and get their much needed vit-hit.

Here’s what they had to say: “Following the latest NHS advice** around vitamin D, Nutritionist and best-selling cookery writer, Madeleine Shaw, unveils that you can achieve your daily dose by simply eating eight medium-sized vitamin D enriched mushrooms.
Mushrooms are an affordable, easily accessible and versatile ingredient to use in cooking across breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now and in the future, it is important to protect and maintain a healthy immune system, seeking out new ways to achieve that much needed vitamin D hit for you and your family. However, one in four of us aren’t getting our daily recommended vitamin intake.*
British and Irish vitamin D enriched mushrooms will help keep sunshine vitamin levels topped up naturally.As a key vitamin essential in supporting a normal immune system, Vitamin D plays a vital role in keeping our bones healthy, as it works to regulate our intake of calcium, magnesium and phosphorous.”

So, we’re asking you:

• What are your favourite family recipes that include mushrooms as the main or one of the ingredients?
• Do you and your family have a favourite type of mushrooms and where do you usually find them?
• Do your children love mushrooms, or do you have to hide them in their meals, so they eat them?
• What makes you include mushrooms in your family’s diet - taste, nutrients, or something else?

Share your experience of making more of mushrooms in your meals on the thread below and you’ll be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £200 Tesco voucher provided by the Irish and British mushroom producers plus a £100 voucher for a store of their choice (from a list) .

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ
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• BBC Good Food, The health benefits of mushrooms ** NHS Vitamin-D Advice * Survey conducted by Opinion Matters to 2,000 UK adult respondents, data correct as of 3rd June 2020, commissioned by The UK & Ireland Mushroom Producers

Tagliatelle with a mushroomy white sauce and a splash of sherry or vermouth. This was my go-to “fancy” meal as a vegetarian but veg-hating teenager.

I've come back to this thread quite a few times to see everyone's recipes, it seems we all love the humble mushroom.

We love mushroom, garlic, spinach and creme fraiche wifh tagliatelle.

gotta be bacon-and-garlic-mushrooms!

Chicken and mushroom pie. Lovely in the winter months

What are your favourite family recipes that include mushrooms as the main or one of the ingredients?
Mushrooms on toast - see earlier post, mushroom and bacon quiche, mushroom stroganoff, mushrooms in pesto tagliatelle, creamy garlic mushroom linguine, chicken and mushroom pie (field mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms and button mushrooms), mushroom risotto (family sized box of super market mushrooms and as a bonus dried porcini mushrooms), chicken and mushroom stir fry (this is from the local Chinese usually as I've not nailed this myself yet).

• Do you and your family have a favourite type of mushrooms and where do you usually find them? I love a good field mushroom, these come from the local supermarket. I love puff ball mushrooms which I used to collect with my dad as a child but I can't find them these days. Amazing ok toast. Such a unique flavour!

• Do your children love mushrooms, or do you have to hide them in their meals, so they eat them? Yes my baby and 6 year old love them.

• What makes you include mushrooms in your family’s diet - taste, nutrients, or something else? Because they are SO YUMMY! My favourite food by far 💗💗💗💗💗 bonus is they are great for me too.

I love lots of mushrooms in the tomato sauce when I make melanzane parmigiana. I also love them in omelettes and risottos. And in sauces over steaks and chicken.
Any type is fine.

I love chopping up lots of chestnut mushrooms and frying them with leeks. Add butter, the smell is gorgeous. Add the tiniest bit of creme fraiche once cooked and stir. Add salt, oregano and pepper to taste. This makes a wonderful sauce to go with fettuccini pasta

Mushroom Bhaji

Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

Dd has suddenly discovered a love of mushrooms. She likes then sauteed in a bit of oil or butter and added to a sausage sandwich or I slice them, fry them in a drop of oil and water until just cooked then add them as a pizza topping.

Chicken and mushrooms.
800g Chicken thighs fry them up in the pan, once cooked remove and add the mushrooms (about 200g) with a chopped spring onion and 2 cloves of garlic, chopped finely.
Add 2 tbsp of hoisin sauce, and cook until the mushrooms soften, then add the chicken back in. Feed about 6, when served with rice. And is even eaten by my fussy child.

Q. What are your favourite family recipes that include mushrooms as the main or one of the ingredients?

A.Mushroom and Bacon roll - see below

Q. Do you and your family have a favourite type of mushrooms and where do you usually find them?

A.I love all mushrooms but my family usually like button or flat portobello - which we do as burgers with cheese and salsa. I tend to buy in Tesco or Waitrose.

Q. Do your children love mushrooms, or do you have to hide them in their meals, so they eat them?

A. When they were younger no, but they do eat them now. Usually mixed with something, although ds3 will eat them sliced and sauted in garlic on toast.

Q. What makes you include mushrooms in your family’s diet - taste, nutrients, or something else

A. Price normally. And as a meat substitute. I buy them also as a quick way to a nutritious meal - on toast, in salads, in stirfries.

My mushroom and bacon roll - chop mushrooms slightly larger than duxelles - you want a bit of bite. Fry in butter with chopped bacon (smoked or not, up to you) and a chopped onion and garlic. Add some herbs if you like, and pepper.
Make a quick suet pastry - flour, suet and water - and roll out into a rectangle. Spread with the duxelle mix, and roll up. Bake until crispy and done. Serve with salad or jacket potatoes and ketchup!

Love mushrooms in this house, well three quarters of us anyway. Love mushrooms on toast, lots of really hot butter fry hard and add a dollop of Dijon mustard, stir through on the heat and serve up on toast. Mushroom risotto also a favourite with dried mushrooms in the risotto and topped with chopped mushrooms fried in butter. Another favourite is large flat mushrooms filled with a mixture of butter, crushed garlic, lots of chopped coriander, grated halloumi, and chopped pine nuts. Bake in the oven for 20 mins, amazing. Seems to be a lot of butter😬 The other quarter of the household does NOT like mushrooms. I have tried, so much. I hide them in things like stews and spag Bol by chopping finely.

My children don’t love mushrooms so I add them to things where they won’t notice! Pasta sauce, the toppings of pizza and on a veg kebab on the bbq are my normal choices. I don’t mind them but don’t choose a meal with them as the main item, like mushroom risotto. I’m a vegetarian and this seems to be a popular main meal choice for restaurants!

Mushrooms are so nice but only if done properly.

Remove the stalk of button or chestnut (chestnut are soore tasty than white buttons).

Slice approve 3 or 4mm thick.

Melt BUTTER (a good knob, don't be tight!) in a frying pan and add the mushrooms

Fry on a good heat until cooked

Before removing add a splash of worcestershire sauce, and a couple cracks of BLACK pepper.

Serve

We love mushroom and peppercorn sauce with a steak or chicken breasts, roast potatoes and veg, we also enjoy it in a curry as they seem quite meaty in curries so can have a more budget friendly meal without meat! The kids (3 and 4) can be picky, the 3 year old mostly eats whatever, the 4 year old could noticea tiny piece even after blending but is getting better now as he has tried things at school and has surprising (to him) liked them! We generally buy whichever mushrooms are on offer but don't buy tinned as they seem just a bit too slimy!

I just love mushrooms and put them into all the usual dishes - spaghetti bolognese, lasagna, stirfries, curries, chilli, omelettes, quiche

My favourite mushroom recipes are mushroom stroganoff & mushroom risotto.

My son has loved eating raw button mushrooms for a snack since he was a toddler... my daughter, however, only eats them when they're hidden in food!

We like homemade mushroom stroganoff but my toddler isn’t so keen on mushrooms 😂

Chicken and cashew curry with button mushrooms or a home made pizza with sliced mushrooms are the only two meals my kids will eat with mushrooms in. I can’t fathom it out but I think it’s because they’re only a small component of the meal

The simple fried mushrooms on toast is a favourite here - in fact I had it yesterday. We also like mushroom risotto but tbh why complicate things?

I love mushrooms.

My favourite way to eat them is as a pasta sauce - onion, garlic, leek and mushroom with Philadelphia - served with pasta or gnocchi. Yum.

I love mushrooms! We use a range depending on recipe component: for steak night we use large portabello mushrooms, but generally use closed cup for weekend fry up and mushroom omelette. Try to aim somewhere in between for quality for pizza topping or risottos. Toddler liked them but now thinks he doesn’t so we chop them small and tell him that they are mixed into his sauce etc so he begins to think he likes them again. Eat them because they are yummy, nutritious, good value and easy to prepare.