Stir Fry Garlic Butter Mushrooms
You know you have done well when you begin to feel good about what you have cooked and you know the feeling is mutual. Wifey says cook this. And it is so. She can’t be wrong. After all she is my biggest critic. She criticise just about everything I do. And that’s why I love her so much.
I mean besides my Mother, no one else would bother to give me their honest opinion about anything. Okay maybe some. But they are mostly rare and few. So I have arrived at the final conclusion. She loves me. There is no other reason why.
So when she says this is good, it is good.
Ingredients
White Button Mushrooms (I bought my white button mushrooms at Market 628, 1kg SGD 14. For this dish, I am preparing for 12-15 pax, so I bought 2kg)
Garlic (I am using old garlic, about 10 pieces, finely chopped)
Thai Basil (3 stalks of Thai Basil, plucked the leaves)
Chinese Celery (5-6 stalks of local celery, not the Australian kind, these local ones are great for flavour)
Butter (real butter please! Not margarine or low fat whatever it is that you call it. I use SCS because I think it is the best butter in the world. For this recipe, 1 whole slab.)
Olive Oil (use extravagantly, mushrooms tend to soak up the oil and butter, so you would definitely need quite a lot of olive oil.)
Sea Salt (a sprinkle every 500grams I had to cook them in batches as my wok was too small to cook all 2kg at one go.)
Method:
1. Snip the stem off the white button mushrooms. Although the stem is edible, most people wouldn’t eat it for some reason. You may wish to wipe the mushrooms with a paper towel if you like. But there’s no need really.
2. Finely mince the garlic, finely chopped the local celery and pluck all the Thai basil leaves.
3. Heat a few tablespoons of olive oil and add 1/8 of the slab of butter to melt it. Once the butter starts to melt, add the mushrooms in to stir fry. At this time the mushrooms will start to soak up the oil.
4. Add the minced garlic, chopped local celery and Thai basil to fry. Sprinkle some sea salt, add another 1/8 of butter. Stir fry until fragrant and the mushrooms starts to brown a little. Repeat this process until all the mushrooms are cooked.
5. Easy only.
Bon Appetit!