What happens if I use fresh mushrooms to make vegetarian Chinese mushroom soup (冬菇湯)?

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What changes if I use fresh mushrooms, rather than dried, to make Chinese mushroom soup (冬菇湯)? I'll be shunning meat. Note that unlike Western mushroom soups, mushrooms aren't blended in Chinese soups.

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Best Answer

Fresh/raw mushrooms are quite bland by themselves (yes I know there are exceptions).

I suggest pan fry in oil them before using them in the soup, or chop them up and bake them in the oven on a sheet pan.

When you are using dried mushroom, you will re-hydrate them in water and you will usually use the resulting liquid which contains a lot of flavor in the recipe.




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