This Mushroom Rice recipe is easy and a flavorful preparation where cooked rice is tossed and mixed in a flavorful & umami sautéed mix of white button mushrooms, spring onions, spices, herbs and extra virgin olive oil.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 20 minutes
  • Cook time: 25 minutes
  • Total time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 3
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: World

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cooked rice (or ⅔ cup uncooked rice - preferably basmati rice or any long grained rice)
  • 400 grams white button mushrooms (- cleaned and chopped or 4 cups chopped white button mushrooms)
  • 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon roasted crushed sesame seeds
  • ½ teaspoon thyme
  • ½ teaspoon oregano
  • 3 to 4 spring onions (or scallions - chopped (reserve the greens for garnishing) - about ½ cup)
  • 1 teaspoon garlic (, finely chopped - optional)
  • ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper (or white pepper)
  • salt (as required)

Method

  1. Before you begin the recipe, cook about ⅔ cup of rice until tender and softened. Cool the rice grains completely.
  2. You can cook or steam the rice in a stovetop pressure cooker, pan or Instant pot adding water as needed.
  3. In a pan heat olive oil. You can also use any neutral flavored oil.
  4. Add the chopped garlic and saute for some seconds. No need to brown the garlic.
  5. Then add chopped scallions (spring onion whites). Begin to saute the spring onions stirring often.
  6. Saute till the spring onions become translucent and have softened. Now add chopped mushrooms. Initially the mushrooms will leave water.
  7. Saute them until all the water evoapartes from the pan and the mushrooms are completely cooked.
  8. Add ground black or white pepper, crushed white sesame seeds, thyme and oregano to the mushrooms. Mix well.
  9. Now add the cooked rice and salt as required. The rice has to be completely cooled before you add it at this step.
  10. Mix and saute the rice with the mushrooms for a couple of minutes.
  11. Garnish with the scallions greens or cilantro.
  12. Serve mushroom rice hot or warm with a salad or you could just drizzle some extra virgin olive oil to the rice and enjoy the bowl of mushroom rice.

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.