A flavour bomb for vegetarians, mushrooms add a satisfying and rich meatiness to this main meal salad
Shiitake is my favourite mushroom of all. I grew up eating dried Chinese shiitake mushrooms, and I was in my mid-teens before I discovered that there were other varieties of mushrooms in the world.
In Chinese culture, mushrooms and their fellow fungi such as wood ear and silver ear, are lauded for their medicinal powers – they are said to balance and restore the immune system, regulate blood sugar, improve blood flow and reduce stress (this is what my mum tells me anyway).
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