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Other Cooking Equipment => Other cooking Eqipment => Other cookers => Topic started by: Smokin Don on March 30, 2014, 12:58:12 AM
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Mar 29 2014
I have known for years that some people use mushroom powder to enhance meat flavor. Now I wonder why I didn’t try this stuff sooner. I got a pound of porcini mushroom powder a couple weeks ago from Amazon. It seemed expensive at $26 but a pound will flavor a lot of steaks or chops and enhance soups or stews.
We were hungry for some pork chops and I had cabbage left to use. I found a recipe to use the mushroom powder. I changed it some and it turned out great; I will use the same on steaks. I mixed up a good 3 tablespoons of the powder, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and a good ½ teaspoon of garlic powder. It was just about right for 3 to 4 chops.
I used some Morton Tender Quick on the chops and in the fridge for an hour. Then they were rinsed well, dried and smeared the mushroom powder mix on and they went in the fridge. The recipe said up to 4 hours and mine were in over 3 hours.
I heated my water to boil some spaetzel and as soon as I got it in I had my skillet heated on med. high to do the chops. I sprayed a little olive oil in and did the chops 4 min. on the first side and 3 on the second. They went into a covered casserole dish with just a little beer and into a heated 275 deg. oven. I deglazed the skillet with a little beer and the cut up cabbage went in there. You could use white wine but I had a beer!
The spaetzel was drained and went into a skillet with a couple pats of butter to brown some. The cabbage was done 10 minutes with lid on and stirred half way. Then it went another 10 to 15 minutes with the lid off. I served it up with some good bread and butter. The wife and I both though it was great!
I will be using the mushroom powder a lot, an amazing taste. I was putting the extra pork chop away and tasted the pan juice left and I though danged why I didn’t make gravy or at least pour a spoonful over the chops to serve. If some are like me and love good mushroom gravy but not crazy about the texture of the cooked mushrooms the powder is a great way to enjoy mushroom flavor. I can see it going into my soups and stews too.
Not the healthiest meal but sure did taste good!
Powder and marinade
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Adding the marinade rub
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Browned and ready for the oven
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Cabbage
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Spaetzel
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Ready to serve
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My supper
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Smokin Don
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I'm in for a plate.
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Don Spaetzle and pork chops are a match made in heaven .
your meal looks amazing.
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Delicious looking cooking Don!
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Now that is wonderful looking Don! Great cook!
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Awesome looking chops and the whole plate looks delicious
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Cliff and I were talking the other day about mushrooms and the "umami" sensation. I like the mushroom flavor you added to these chops Don. It is good isn't it!
You may even want to try a marinade made from the powder, water and a teaspoon or so of cider vinegar.
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Shrooms are on sale..could I dehydrate them and make my own shrooms powder? Suggestions appreciated. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Shrooms are on sale..could I dehydrate them and make my own shrooms powder? Suggestions appreciated. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Yes Pam, you can dehydrate then toss into blender or better yet a coffee bean grinder and grind into powder.
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Shrooms are on sale..could I dehydrate them and make my own shrooms powder? Suggestions appreciated. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Why not? Got an extra (coffee) grinder that you use for spices? I would dryt hem until they snap cleanly when you try to bend them at all. You need to get ALL of the moisture out. Then bring and try not to heat them up from too long a grinding cycle. Small batches, short blasts of grinding.
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Shrooms are on sale..could I dehydrate them and make my own shrooms powder? Suggestions appreciated. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Yes Pam, you can dehydrate then toss into blender or better yet a coffee bean grinder and grind into powder.
Thanks Hikerman..I have a dedicated spice grinder for stuff like that..and an old Nesco dehydrator that works great. Dang, I'm cheap..lol. it allows me to buy other stuffs. .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Shrooms are on sale..could I dehydrate them and make my own shrooms powder? Suggestions appreciated. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Yes Pam, you can dehydrate then toss into blender or better yet a coffee bean grinder and grind into powder.
Thanks Hikerman..I have a dedicated spice grinder for stuff like that..and an old Nesco dehydrator that works great. Dang, I'm cheap..lol. it allows me to buy other stuffs. .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Pam...cheap or not, it allows you to know EXACTLY what is in your powder etc. I do the same thing.
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Thanks SD I think my Amazon wish wish list is up to about 10k, lol
Bookmarked to try, thanks for posting ;D
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Shrooms are on sale..could I dehydrate them and make my own shrooms powder? Suggestions appreciated. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Yes Pam, you can dehydrate then toss into blender or better yet a coffee bean grinder and grind into powder.
Thanks Hikerman..I have a dedicated spice grinder for stuff like that..and an old Nesco dehydrator that works great. Dang, I'm cheap..lol. it allows me to buy other stuffs. .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Pam...cheap or not, it allows you to know EXACTLY what is in your powder etc. I do the same thing.
Agree with all said,put me in the thrifty category and no added preservatives.
LOVE shrooms,I will make some powder.
Meal looks healthy to me,and tasty too.
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Great looking dish, gotta get or make me some mushroom powder. ;)