Does anyone have any good lion’s mane mushroom recipes?
I’m currently subscribed to a mushroom CSA in the Greater Boston area which has been great but this is my second lion’s mane encounter (blue oyster mushrooms this week, too). The first one was not good. I attempted to make a stew with the lion’s mane and it just turned out slimy. I ended up eating the entire pot and B politely ate 1 meal’s worth and didn’t ask about it again.
What can I do with the lion’s mane and give it the treatment that it deserves?
Usually I slice and sauté lions mane mushrooms in a hot pan, preferably enameled cast iron for me. Olive oil is my usual go-to, though a combo of olive oil and butter is nice as well. Often I deglaze the pan with a splash of wine or water to capture any browned bits that may have stuck to the pan.
I enjoy lions mane sautéed this way as a pizza topping, or in a risotto, or in a pasta dish, or combined with spinach in a frittata, or as a side. For my taste lions mane do need to be sautéed first. They also combine well with other shrooms—in a risotto or pasta we consider it a treat to have multiple varieties.
I’m not doing any mushroom CSA-ing myself until winter. Will try to return to this thread if I have other ideas then.
A lot of the recipes listed here call for using medium to medium high heat and cooking long enough to brown thoroughly. Another one calls for boiling and then grilling further. A couple of the recipes note that you can pull the mushroom apart and use in tacos and “crab” cakes.
This feels like a mushroom that needs brushing off of dirt or growing medium, rather than rinsing, what with all the fluffy stuff on the outside. I’d think that stuff would trap moisture and be less than ideal in the finished product.
If I had them, I would slice them, season with some salt and pepper, and judicious splash of soy sauce, and put them in the air fryer for about 2 minutes @ 400F, and then either use them as toppings on pizza or dice them up further and make fried rice.
I find these frickin’ things all the time…about 20 ft. high in hardwood trees. I found a big one right in the “armpit” of an oak tree once. That looked cool.
