I am using up what is in my cupboards, making BM eat the meals that I come up with.
I opened the herb cupboard and there was a jar of dried Shiitake mushrooms, looking back at me, waiting to be re-hydrated, cooked and eaten.
As I am on a ‘how to cook Quinoa’ cooking binge, I thought ‘hey, let’s cook the shiitake with the quinoa’ for tonight’s dinner, what have we got to lose.
I'm going to cook this recipe in the pressure cooker.
Quinoa with Shiitake mushrooms
As the Shiitake mushrooms are dried and need soaking, I put them in the pressure cooker bowl first, then top with two parts boiling water, followed by 1-part quinoa.
You must place the mushrooms, water and quinoa in this order, so the mushroom can re-hydrate a little as the pressure cooker heats up.
For this recipe, I’m calling a part, a 500-millilitre container.
I added a cinnamon stick, some star anise and cardamom pods for flavour and forgot to add salt (which the recipe needed)
Everything was then cooked in the pressure cooker for 3 minutes on high pressure.
Season with salt, to taste.
Acknowledgment of country
Hello, I’m Jaci Hicken, from the lands of the Brataualung clan, which is where I’ve spent most of my life.
I would like to acknowledge all of us here today to cook together and share a meal.
I love sharing my dream of growing the food this country has to offer and share it with you.
The traditional place that we come together today is on the lands Gunaikurnai people
And I’d like to pay my respects to our elders past, present, emerging leaders, along with all the young people in our community.