What to do with Oyster mushrooms?

My grandmother just came home, and she brought Oyster mushrooms. I love mushrooms, but I’ve only ever cooked with button mushrooms/field mushrooms/shiitake/portabella ones before.

What should I do with them?

They’re good in a stir fry. I like them with garlic chives, but you can’t get those in most places. You could approximate this by cooking them with garlic and green onions. I usually add a little oyster sauce, but if you can’t get that you could use fish sauce or soy sauce.

I grow garlic chives, and i have a bottle of oyster sauce. :slight_smile: thanks!

I just saute them in butter.

Same thing with any mushroom. I saute them with butter and garlic and serve with parmasian cheese.

A third for saute them in butter. I tend to serve oyster mushrooms with steak because they contain natural statins and I like to pretend we’re not negatively impacting our cholesterol levels by combining red meat and oyster mushrooms. :smiley:

Anne Burrell recommends tossing them in olive oil and roast in the oven until crisp. She claims they taste like bacon.

I have a couple of jars of these (top row, third one over). Shiitakes, oysters and namekos. How can I put them to their best use?

Oyster mushrooms are wondrous with pasta and a light Alfredo-type sauce. But then, what isn’t.

They also make a spectacular cream-of-mushroom soup. One of my best mushroom-hunting days was when I found some Horns of Plenty (a nearly black relative of the chanterelle with a flavor deeper than anything else I’ve tasted) and sauteed them with some oyster mushrooms I’d found to make the base for a cream of mushroom soup.