Oyster Mushrooms Minsk

Ingredients:

1-½ oz Dry or 10 oz Fresh Oyster mushrooms

½ cups Water, Plus 1 cup cold water for dry

     mushrooms

¼ tsb baking soda

¼ cup Vinegar

¼ tsp Salt

1 cup Chopped onions

1 small Eggplant, sliced

1 Tbs Butter

2 Tbs Flour

¼ Yellow bell (sweet) pepper ¼ Red bell

     (sweet) pepper

¼ Green bell (sweet) pepper 1 cup Sour cream

Preparation:

Soak dry mushrooms in water, allow 1 hour before cooking. After the dry mushrooms have soaked 10 minutes or immediately after washing the fresh mushrooms, cut off all stems, and chop them very fine. Place the stems in a small pan, add ¼ cup water and baking soda, cover and simmer. Cut the peppers into strips. Sauté the onions and eggplant, add salt, mushrooms and stems, including all liquid (much should have been absorbed). Continue heating, sift flour in slowly, while stirring. As soon as the liquid is smooth and thickened, add sour cream. Garnish with peppers. Serves 6.

 

Variation: cooked carrots may be substituted for some of the peppers. RHK