Miso-Charred Mushrooms and Black Rice Salad

Name: Miso-Charred Mushrooms and Black Rice Salad
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons toasted white or black sesame seeds; 118 milliliters fresh or frozen edamame beans; 2 Tbsps chopped fresh cilantro leaves; 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger; 0 jalapeno, minced; 1 Tbsp juice from 1 lime; 2 Tbsps mirin, fivided; 4 Portobello mushroom caps, wiped clean; 118 milliliters forbidden black rice, rinsed; 1 Tbsp rice vinegar; 3 leaves Savoy cabbage, sliced into very thin strips; 2 scallions, very thinly sliced; 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil; 1 teaspoon soy sauce; 59 milliliters white miso

Miso-Charred Mushrooms and Black Rice Salad is a gluten free and vegan main course. This recipe covers 25% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 2 servings with 387 calories, 16g of protein, and 8g of fat each. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 40 minutes. If you have savoy cabbage, mirin, cilantro leaves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the black sesame seeds you could follow this main course with the Healthy Honey Flax Tahini Banana Bread as a dessert.

Instructions

Bring a medium-large pot of salted water to a boil.

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Add the rice to the boiling salted water, and cook without a lid until tender, about 35 minutes.

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Rice

Meanwhile, arrange a rack 6 to 8 inches below broiler element and pre-heat broiler to high. In a bowl, whisk together the miso, 2 tablespoons mirin, and fresh ginger. Slather the mushrooms, top and bottom, with the miso mixture.

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Fresh Ginger

Mushrooms

Mirin

Miso

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Bowl

Place on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet, and broil until tender and charred, turning once, about 20 minutes total. Set aside.

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Aluminum Foil

Whisking together the rice vinegar, lime juice, soy sauce, remaining 1 teaspoon mirin, and sesame oil. Set aside.

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Rice Vinegar

Lime Juice

Sesame Oil

Soy Sauce

Mirin

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Whisk

Once the rice has been cooking for 30 minutes, add the fresh edamame beans. When the rice has only one minute left to cook (it’s been boiling for 34 minutes), add the shredded cabbage. If using frozen edamame, add with the cabbage at the 34 minutes mark.

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Edamame