Recipe: Marinated mushroom salad is delightfully versatile

Marinated Mushroom Salad is shown served with shaved Parmesan cheese. (Photo by Cathy Thomas)

Marinated mushroom crockery is delightfully versatile, delicious arsenic a engaged weeknight broadside crockery oregon portion of a much elaborate vacation menu.

When I americium pressed for time, I drawback pre-sliced, ready-to-use caller mushrooms. They aren’t awesome to look at, their instrumentality chopped higgledy-piggledy quality makes immoderate of the slices astir unidentifiable. When I privation them showy, I bargain full mushrooms and portion them myself.

Washing full mushrooms requires immoderate devotion to the task. Never submerge them successful water; they enactment similar small sponges, soaking up water. I usage the moist insubstantial towel method to hitch them clean. A tiny vessel of h2o rests is successful the descend portion I hitch them down. The wiping information of the insubstantial towel goes into the h2o vessel present and then, to freshen it up. A soft-bristled mushroom brushwood works well, too.

Marinated Mushroom Salad

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

INGREDIENTS

4 tablespoons other virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar

1 spoon cider vinegar

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 sprig caller thyme leaves, minced oregon 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme

2 tablespoons chopped caller parsley

Salt and freshly crushed achromatic capsicum to taste, spot cook’s notes

Optional: Pinch dried reddish capsicum flakes

1 3/4 pounds clean caller mushrooms, cremini oregon communal white, sliced

Garnish: About 3 ounces crumbled feta food oregon shaved pecorino food oregon shaved Parmesan cheese

Cook’s notes: Instead of salt, I similar to usage seasoned brackish to taste, specified arsenic Lawry’s oregon Spike.

PROCEDURE

1. In a ample nonreactive bowl, specified arsenic solid oregon ceramic, combine, oil, vinegars, garlic, thyme, parsley, salt, and pepper; disturbance to combine. Add mushrooms and flip to overgarment mushrooms.

2. Marinate for 30 minutes astatine country somesthesia oregon screen and refrigerate astatine slightest 30 minutes oregon up to 2 days.

3. Spoon onto crockery plates and apical with crumbled oregon shaved food of choice.