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Kari's shiitake mushroom meat sauce with tofu on a bed of salad greens
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Kari's Shiitake Mushroom Meat Sauce

This comfort food envelopes you in warm, fuzzy feelings. This recipe can be doubled or tripled for batch cooking to leave extras for freezing. It's versatile -- substitute any ground meat and serve with vegetables, noodles, toast, or soup.
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Total Time25 mins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese
Keyword: 10 ingredients or less, 5-minute recipe, batch-cooking, comfort, gluten-free, salad, stir-fry
Servings: 6 people
Calories: 296kcal
Author: Anna Rider
Cost: $18

Equipment

  • Soup Pot
  • Silicone Spoon
  • Knife
  • Chopping Board

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. Ground Meat Bison, pork, beef, chicken, turkey, lamb all work
  • 4 cups Shiitake Mushrooms Dried or fresh. If dried, use 2 big handfuls.
  • 1 brick Tofu Optional

Aromatics

Seasonings

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Prepare ingredients

  • Gather the ingredients.
    Close up look of all the ingredients required for Kari's Shiitake Mushroom Meat Sauce recipe
  • Slice and chop the green onions.
  • Crush and peel the garlic cloves. Chop the garlic into rough pieces.
  • Wash and roughly chop the shiitake mushrooms.
    3 images of chopped green onions, chopped garlic, and chopped mushrooms

Cook the ground meat

  • Heat the big soup pot over high heat on the stove. Add canola oil into the soup pot.
  • Once the oil starts to shimmer, add the chopped green onion and garlic. Stir fry the aromatics for 30 seconds.
  • Add the ground meat into the soup pot. Break up the ground meat into big chunks.
  • Pour both the dark and light soy sauce into the ground meat.
  • Stir the soy sauce into the meat until evenly blended. Lower the heat to medium-high. Cook the ground meat until there is only a touch of pink left, about 5 minutes.
    4 images showing green onions fried with ground meat and soy sauce

Cook the mushrooms

  • While cooking the meat, use the back of the spoon to squish any chunks of meat to break up each clump of meat. Taste the meat to determine if the dish is salty enough.
  • Add the chopped shiitake mushrooms.
  • If the meat sauce isn't salty enough yet, add the extra salt. Stir in the salt and allow the mushrooms to cook and release their water.
  • Optional: crumble tofu into the dish to stretch the meat and add protein. If you're omitting the tofu, then skip this step. If cooking the tofu, stir the crumbled tofu into the dish until well mixed.
    4 images of cooking ground meat with soy sauce, adding mushrooms, and adding crumbled tofu
  • Cook until the meat is fully cooked. There should be no pink or red left.
  • Enjoy your aromatic meat sauce with shiitake mushroom!
    2 images of the finished mushroom meat sauce in a pan and served next to steamed vegetables

Nutrition

Calories: 296kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 17g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 327mg | Potassium: 709mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 60IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 2mg