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Magazine - Autumn 2024

Korean sticky mushrooms with kimchi greens

Chef David Hayden and wife Rachael run The Gallows in Milnrow. They were winners of Come Dine with Me: The Professionals in 2022.

Korean sticky mushrooms with kimchi greens
Korean sticky mushrooms with kimchi greens

David, who has catered for premiership footballers, TV stars and other celebs, shares his recipe for this light vegetarian dish; Korean sticky mushrooms with kimchi greens to serve two people.

Ingredients

  • 4 flat mushrooms
  • Untoasted sesame oil
  • 2 small pinches of salt
  • 150g jasmine rice
  • ½ teaspoon of sesame seeds
  • 1 head of pak choi roughly sliced
  • 150g tenderstem broccoli
  • 80g kimchi chopped
  • 1 spring onion, sliced finely

For the sticky sauce

  • 2cm of fresh ginger, peeled and grated
  • 1 clove of garlic, crushed
  • 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons of honey
  • 1½ teaspoons of korean gochujang paste

Preheat the oven to 200°C or gas mark 6, and boil the kettle.

Toss the mushrooms with some sesame oil and pinch of salt in a roasting tray. Roast for 6-8 minutes until brown.

Place the rice in a pan and boil until tender for 15 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Mix the ingredients for the sticky sauce together in a bowl.

Add the sticky sauce to the mushrooms and mix well. Scatter with sesame seeds and return to the oven for a final five minutes until sticky but not burnt.

Fry the tenderstem broccoli and pak choi until soft, then mix with the kimchi and rice.

Serve the rice and greens in a bowl topped with the sticky mushrooms, garnish with finely sliced spring onion and eat, eat, eat.

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