Shiitakes

Our canned shiitakes online will give an Asian touch to your kitchen. King of Asian cuisine, shiitake is a small mushroom that traditionally grows on the trunks of dead oaks, hence its other name, oak lentin. Its third name, the fragrant mushroom, comes from its delicate taste, which makes it one of the cultivated mushrooms most prized by our great chefs... Coming from crops, our shiitakes are sorted and washed by us. Then delicately blanched, they are juiced with their cooking water in order to concentrate all the flavors of the product. This mushroom has, in addition to a sweet and pleasant scent, remarkable nutritional properties, with a wealth of B vitamins, vitamin D, iron, potassium. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is considered a neutral and orexigenic element (stimulating the appetite) in cases of anorexia. Due to all these properties, it is a recurring element of different Chinese, Korean or Japanese cuisines. It is an ingredient used in many East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and even Korean dishes. The stem is relatively hard and therefore used mainly to flavor a broth. In Japan, it is used in many recipes, for example in tenpura, in dashi (broths) or even in stew. It is also found in vegetable recipes in Korea, such as japchae. In China, it can be stir-fried in a wok and be an ingredient in meat and poultry dishes, or used in many recipes for fondues, soups, stir-fried vegetable dishes, poultry, simmered beef, etc. Preparation tip: Drain your shiitakes. Have fun incorporating them into your exotic dishes. You can very well make a shiitake vegetable wok