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Prep Time 15 minutes
Wine Gewürztraminer, Riesling
Servings 8 buns

Equipment

  • wok
  • mandoline (or cheese slicer)

Ingredients
  

  • 300 gr oyster mushroom
  • 200 gr shiitake
  • 8 bao buns
  • 180 ml teriyaki wok sauce
  • ½ cucumber
  • 100 ml white wine vinegar or rice vinegar
  • ½ tbsp sugar
  • fresh cilantro
  • fresh mint
  • 1 spring onion
  • crispy fried onions
  • Kewpie Japanese mayonnaise
  • Sunflower or peanut oil

Instructions
 

Sweet and sour cucumber

  • Use a mandoline or cheese slicer to slice thin slices of the cucumber. Put them in a small bowl.
  • Heat the vinegar to dissolve the sugar in it (it doesn't necessarily need to boil for that).
  • Take the vinegar off the heat as soon as the sugar is dissolved and pour the vinegar of the cucumber slices and let it sit for a while.

Mise en place

  • Cut some small rings of the spring onion and chop some mint and cilantro.

Teriyaki mushrooms

  • Pull the oyster mushrooms lengthwise (along their natural lines) in small strips and cut the shiitake in quarters.
  • Heat some oil in a wok and stir fry the mushrooms for a few minutes until they have some color, then add the teriyaki sauce and let if heat for another few minutes.

Plating

  • Steam the buns as you prefer (microwave or otherwise).
  • Put some mushrooms, cucumbers, mint, cilantro, spring onions rings, crispy fried onions and kewpie on it and you're ready to serve!