Q&A for How to Cook with Mushrooms

You can use mushrooms to make pasta sauces, soups, taco or quesadilla fillings, savory galettes, or crostini toppings.

Melt 3 ounces of butter in a frying pan. Finely chop some white onions and cook them to golden brown. Peel and remove the stalk from the mushrooms. Place them in the frying pan, cover and cook for 8 minutes or until the mushroom is browned. Serve with horseradish sauce whilst still hot.

Try putting them in a pan with some olive oil and letting them simmer while occasionally stirring them, before putting them in your lasagna. You can season them in the pan also, if you'd like.

Mushrooms do not have a rind or skin and therefore do not have to be peeled.

You should cook them; otherwise, you have cold, dry mushrooms on a hot, tasty pizza.

Yes. Make sure the meat is cooked all the way, and if the mushrooms were foraged, be sure they're edible.

You can add them raw, as long as it's relatively early in the process, or you can cook them--anything from sauteing to dry frying.

Yes, as long as it is still firm and smells alright, nearly any mushroom can still be cooked.

You could boil them first and then cook them with rice. You could also try looking up a mushroom risotto recipe or something similar!

The normal way is to thinly slice the mushrooms and add them to the ramen broth a minute or two before serving, but if you prefer the taste of sauteed mushrooms there is nothing stopping you from sauteeing them first.