Raw Food Recipes. Raw Foods. Dehydrating Mushrooms.

Mushroom, fungi, spores, some woody, some meaty, yet all have a large water content that defines their unique texture.  Another perfect item to explore when playing with raw food.  My only thoughts of raw shrooms is when your crafty waitress brings you a house salad with sliced raw button mushrooms.  Thanks, I will pass!

In order to extract optimal flavor in mushrooms they need to have  heat added to them, this creates a problem in the raw food scenario.  Ah yes, dehydration!  I marinated the generic shrooms in organic soy (just a little), shallots, chili flakes, and sesame oil.  They sat for 4 hours then off they went into the food dehydrator!  12 hours later we had moist flavorful shrooms!  These were used to add flavor packed punches in all kinds of raw dishes and as a tasty snack.