Chicken and Mushrooms

JH

JH

Puritan Board Sophomore
A congregant of ours was so kind as to gift us some leftover food. Me being the obviously impressive 27 year old single chef, mixed these two ingredients and made a never before heard of recipe.

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My wife likes to stir fry chicken and mushrooms in oyster sauce and serve with rice. An excellent, simple meal.
 
Jake said:
My wife likes to stir fry chicken and mushrooms in oyster sauce and serve with rice. An excellent, simple meal.
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This is my first time making mushrooms at all personally, had to look up a YouTube video.
 
JH said:
This is my first time making mushrooms at all personally, had to look up a YouTube video.
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I find with meat + mushrooms you want to offset the umami flavor. Rice helps with that a lot, though milk would too I imagine.
 
Jake said:
I find with meat + mushrooms you want to offset the umami flavor. Rice helps with that a lot, though milk would too I imagine.
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I'm not even sure what that is! I just added cumin, parsley leaves, and better than bouillon vegetable base.
 
Looks yummy. Fresh mushrooms soak up everything good in a dish then release the flavor for the appreciative diner. Think butter, wine, cream etc. You can also make duxelles to add flavor to other dishes. Or eat them straight out of the pan, heh, heh. (Finely chopped lightly salted mushrooms slowly cooked with butter, shallots, thyme, pepper, and garlic until they give off most of their liquid. Stir in a bit more butter and wine and cook down to a porridge consistency.)
 
JH said:
I'm not even sure what that is! I just added cumin, parsley leaves, and better than bouillon vegetable base.
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Umami is just a fancy word for savory flavor. It's one of the five basic tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami.
 
I would suggest either cooking the chicken first, then adding the mushrooms toward the end, or sauteing the mushrooms, removing them from the pan, cooking the chicken, adding the mushrooms back just before serving to mix and heat them back up. I'd throw in some red wine with the chicken while it's cooking. Sounds like a good choice of seasonings.
 
Edward said:
I would suggest either cooking the chicken first, then adding the mushrooms toward the end, or sauteing the mushrooms, removing them from the pan, cooking the chicken, adding the mushrooms back just before serving to mix and heat them back up. I'd throw in some red wine with the chicken while it's cooking. Sounds like a good choice of seasonings.
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The red wine idea sounds ingenious
 
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