Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Garlic Butter Mushrooms | Garlic Mushrooms is a gluten-free, vegetarian American, World side dish made with simple everyday ingredients in about 20 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 1
- Category: Side Dish
- Cuisine: American, World
Ingredients
- 250 grams white button mushrooms
- 10 grams garlic cloves (or 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic)
- 2 tablespoons butter (- salted or unsalted)
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano (or dried basil or dried herbs - can also add 2 teaspoons of fresh parsley or coriander leaves or fresh basil)
- ½ teaspoon black peppercorns (- crushed or ¾ to 1 teaspoon crushed black pepper - add as required)
- salt (as required)
Method
- Firstly rinse or wipe the mushrooms and then chop them.
- On a low heat, add 2 tablespoons butter in a pan. Keep the heat to low, so that the butter does not get burnt.
- Add the finely chopped garlic and sauté for about half a minute on low heat, till their raw aroma of garlic goes away.
- Now add the button mushrooms. Stir and saute them on a low to medium heat. Initially the mushrooms will leave lot of water.
- Continue to saute them till all the water evaporates.
- You can continue to sauté until the mushrooms turn a light golden or golden at the edges.
- Once all of the water has evaporated and the mixture looks dry, add the dried herbs, crushed black pepper and salt. You can add any dried herb of your choice. I added 1 teaspoon dried oregano.
- Mix well. Switch off the heat.
- Serve Garlic Butter Mushroom as is or accompanied with bread or any flat bread.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.