the absolute best sauteed mushrooms

Author Notes

I know, sauteed mushrooms, how blah. But I really love them and the make a fine tapas dish or an accompaniment to any other wonderful dish you make. I like mine served over white rice.

The secret to this simple recipe is using soy sauce! You can use any mushrooms for this except the fancy shmancy ones like chanterelles or morels, which dont seem to appreciate soy sauce that much. shiitakes, enokis, maitakes, matsutakes, excellent. I like using both light and dark soy sauces (both available at Japanese stores), but you can just use one kind if you want.

The mirin and rice vinegar addition gives this recipe a distinctly asian feel, but you can skip it (and use olive oil or butter instead of sesame oil) and it is still very very good. —yella