Japanese maitake mushrooms are interesting texture!

Japanese people love mushrooms, and we often use them for hot pot dinner or miso soup. Japanese vegetable stir-fry are often cooked with mushroos. Mushrooms are harvested in autumn here. One of the most common mushromms in Japan is shimeji mushroom. It’s no longer there is always at least one shimeji mushroom in a fridge in every Japanese family. However have you ever heard of Maitake mush room?

Maitake mush room

There are always several kinds of mushrooms in the supermarkets in Japan. For example, shiitake mushroom, shimeji mashroom, enoki mushrrom and maitake mushroom. Each mushroom have the different texture and aroma. Especially, maitake mushroom looks like butterfly or flower and has an unique aroma. The gills of maitake mushroom are thin but chewy.
Maitake mushroom used to be a phantom mushroom. It was rare to find it in wild so that it named Maitake mushroom. Mai means dancing , and Take means mushroom in Japanese. People, a long time ago, danced for joy when they found a rare maitake mushroom!

Nutritional value of Maitake mushroom

As everyone know, mushrooms are healthy and nutritious. Maitake mushroom is high in dietary fiber, vitamin B1, vitamin D, calcium, mineral, niacin and zinc.

Tempura of maitake mushroom

Maitake looks very beautiful so that a dish made of maitake looks good! Tempura of maitake mushroom looks like flowers. Tempura is a typical Japanese food that vegetables and other ingredients are covered with batter and deep fried in oil. Tempura is crunchy and maitake mush room is chewy so that the texture is unique!! Tempura of mushrooms, not only maitake mushroom, is so much delicious and healthy. Of course there are also some vegetable tempura and chicken tempura. You eat them by dipping into a tempura sauce.

Summary

It’s fun to look around to find mushrooms in a Supermarket in Japan. It’s just fun only to look at Japanese ingredients like several kinds of mushrooms. Let’s try eating tempura of maitake mushroom at a tempura restaurant in Japan. It is a best to eat tempura when it’s freshly fried!