Preparation
2 hours
Difficulty
Easy
If you are a hardcore fan of vegetables that have a bitter taste but a sweet aftertaste, you cannot miss this Tram Mushroom porridge! Tram mushrooms are only available in the rainy season, and eating porridge during the rainy season is just delightful. What are you waiting for? Get into the kitchen and make this delicious porridge right away with TasteVN!
Ingredients for Vegetarian Tram Mushroom Porridge Serves 4
Roasted rice 200 gr Tram mushrooms 200 gr Green onions A little Vegetarian fish sauce 1 tablespoon Vegetarian seasoning 1 tablespoon Salt A little Sugar 1/2 teaspoon
How to choose fresh and delicious tram mushrooms
Tram mushrooms are very rare and only available in the rainy season, so you can buy fresh tram mushrooms during this time.
For fresh tram mushrooms
- Choose fresh tram mushrooms with a natural aroma, bright color, the top of the mushroom cap covered with a thin silky layer, and a firm stem with uniform color.
- If the mushrooms have bloomed, you should select those with evenly spread, beautiful, and dry petals.
- You should not buy tram mushrooms that are wrinkled or darkened, bruised, as they won’t be fresh or tasty when cooked.
For dried tram mushrooms
You should buy whole dried tram mushrooms that are not broken or moldy and do not have an unusual smell.
How to prepare Tram Mushroom Porridge
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Roast rice and cook porridge
Place a pan on the stove and add all the prepared rice into the pan, roasting until the rice turns yellow.
Then transfer the rice to a pot, add 600ml of water, and cook for 1 hour and 30 minutes. While cooking, remember to stir the porridge occasionally with a ladle to prevent it from burning at the bottom of the pot!
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Prepare and stir-fry tram mushrooms
Wash the tram mushrooms to remove sand, then briefly blanch them in boiling water, and rinse immediately with cold water. After that, gently squeeze the mushrooms to remove excess water, then chop them finely with a knife.
Heat a pan on the stove, add a little cooking oil, and sauté the shallots until fragrant; there’s no need to brown them. When the shallots are fragrant, add the tram mushrooms and stir-fry, adding 1 tablespoon of vegetarian fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of vegetarian seasoning, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, and a little salt, and stir-fry for 3 minutes.
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Complete the mushroom porridge
After stir-frying the mushrooms, add them to the cooking porridge, mix well, and then cook for another 5 minutes. Season the porridge to taste according to your family’s preferences, then turn off the heat.
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Final product
Tram mushroom porridge can be eaten in the style of a porridge hot pot, sprinkled with a little pepper, cilantro, accompanied by some bean sprouts and bitter vegetables. When eating, you add a bit of bean sprouts and a bit of bitter vegetables to the bowl, pour the porridge over the vegetables; it smells great and is perfectly cooked!
Tram mushroom porridge has a faint aroma of roasted rice combined with a light mushroom fragrance. When you eat it, you will feel the slight bitterness characteristic of Tram mushrooms, but the aftertaste is sweet and delicious. This porridge, sprinkled with a little pepper on rainy days, is incredibly tasty.
So you now know how to cook vegetarian Tram mushroom porridge that is both delicious and hot. The porridge has a slight bitterness with a sweet aftertaste, and the nutrients from Tram mushrooms will provide the family with a unique and delicious meal. TasteVN wishes you success in your cooking!
