Baked mushrooms
The kitchen is a wonderful place when it is full of flavours and fragrances, creating a veritable journey of emotions and feelings, without forgetting, on the one hand, true flavours, and, one the other, a lightness which nourishes and sustains a healthy body. In this recipe, we are going to discover a dish that involves a great deal of flavour without compromising your health and, above all, that is also economical. We are talking about ‘sbrise’ - oyster mushrooms - cooked in the oven, and great for vegetarians. Are you ready to make a dish suitable for any occasion? Follow our tips and you’ll have the perfect result!
Ingredients
* approximate values per serving
Preparation
Cut the mushrooms from the stalks, keeping them whole. Line a baking sheet with some baking parchment. Arrange the mushrooms flat on the baking parchment. Season with plenty of olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake at 180 °C (in a fan oven) for about 25 minutes. Serve hot along with polenta and a meat dish, if you like.
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Prepare the mushrooms by cutting the head from the stalk, keeping the heads whole
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Arrange the mushrooms on a baking tray
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Drizzle the mushrooms with a good dosing of olive oil
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Season well with salt and pepper
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Although an easy recipe, oyster mushrooms are delicious and can be served as an accompaniment to any meat dish or even with hot polenta.
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Additional information
Baked Pleurotus Mushrooms: One Idea, Many Variations
Baked pleurotus mushrooms are a very tasty and interesting side dish to prepare during the autumn. They are a type of mushroom well-known in Veneto, where they are called sbrise. But rest assured, even if you don't live in Veneto, you know them by another name. In fact, sbrise are nothing more than pleurotus mushrooms, the large ones, light gray in color. You can easily find them at the supermarket or at your trusted greengrocer. However, do not venture out to search for them in the woods by yourself: collecting mushrooms requires specific knowledge, and you risk confusing them and bringing home some poisonous ones. Pleurotus mushrooms indeed include several types and varieties, and there are poisonous pleurotus mushrooms. Therefore, it is always better to buy them from someone who has harvested or produced them for us. Why produced? Because pleurotus mushrooms are often produced industrially specifically for large distribution. That said, let's see how to prepare baked pleurotus mushrooms by occasionally changing the recipe.
Baked Pleurotus Mushrooms Breaded, Baked Pleurotus Mushrooms with Potatoes and Vegetables, or Baked Pleurotus Mushrooms with Sausage or Pork Shank
You can make your baked pleurotus mushrooms breaded and placed on parchment paper. If you feel like having a nice breading but don't want to fry, you can wash and clean the pleurotus mushrooms well, pat them dry with paper towels, and then bread them with flour, egg, and breadcrumbs. At that point, take a sheet of parchment paper and place the pleurotus mushrooms on it. Bake them at 200 degrees for 20 minutes, turning them halfway through cooking.
Alternatively, you can make a nice tray of potatoes, onions, and baked pleurotus mushrooms. Cut everything into even pieces (it would be better to soak the potatoes for about ten minutes to lose some starch), season with oil, salt, and pepper, and bake for 30-40 minutes at 200 degrees. Ideally, you should also bake the potatoes 10 minutes before the other ingredients to ensure everything cooks at the same time.
If you don't want to mix the pleurotus mushrooms with other vegetables, you can also bake them alone. Furthermore, if you want to prepare a single dish, you can bake sausage and pleurotus mushrooms together for 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Pleurotus mushrooms pair well with pork, but also with nice veal cutlets in a pan, a pork shank in the oven, or other meats of your choice.