Mushroom chili is a delicious restaurant style Indo – Chinese recipe. This chilli mushroom gravy recipe is spicy and tastes delicious with Chinese noodles. It can also be served as a side with fried rice. This is a vegan mushroom recipe.
The vegetarian mushroom chilli recipe can be cooked in two ways – Chilli mushroom gravy as mentioned in the recipe below and chilli mushroom dry. To make mushroom chilli dry, do not add water to make gravy. Rest of the steps remain the same.
Ingredients needed to make mushroom chili:
- Mushroom: Use 1 packet (200 gm) of button mushroom to make this mushroom chilli pepper. You can also cook this recipe with oyster mushroom or portabella mushroom.
- Vegetables: Vegetables like capsicum, red onion and green onion are used to make this delicious mushroom recipe.
- Ginger: Minced ginger or ginger paste is used in this recipe.
- Garlic: Minced garlic or garlic paste is also used in this Indian Chinese recipe for taste and flavour.
- Sauce: Soy sauce and green chili sauce are the sauces used in this delicious Chinese gravy.
- Spice powder: Black pepper powder is the spice powder used in this recipe.
- Stock cube: I have used 1 stock cube in this recipe.
- Flour: A little bit of corn flour is added in the recipe to make the mushroom gravy thick.
How to cook mushroom chilli?
- In a wok or pan, heat oil and fry the onions.
- Once they are bit pinkish add ginger-garlic paste and mix.
- Now add the capsicum and fry for few minutes.
- Then add the stock cube, pepper powder, soy and chilli sauce and mix properly.
- Add chopped mushrooms and mix well.
- After some time, mushroom will release water. Let it get cooked nicely. Add 3/4th cup water and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add corn flour and mix. Cook for 2 minutes or till the gravy thicken a bit.
- Garnish with chopped spring onion greens.
You might like other mushroom recipes like:
- Mushroom chilli 65
- Mushroom ghee roast
- Kadai mushroom
- Mushroom xacuti
- Semolina mushroom
- Crispy mushroom pepper fry
How to serve mushroom chilli Indian recipe?
Mushroom chilli recipe can be served with Hakka noodles, Lo Mein or Chinese fried rice as a side dish.
Health benefits of mushrooms:
Mushrooms have lots of health benefits. They are full of proteins, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Mushrooms helps to reduce the cholesterol levels and are beneficial in preventing cancer of prostrate and breast. They also help reduce diabetes as they contain natural insulin. They also boost the immunity and aids weight loss. Mushroom is the only vegetable to contain vitamin D in edible form. They are rich in calcium, iron, potassium, copper and selenium.
But there is a word of caution. Only a few types of mushrooms are edible. Mushrooms can kill too as most of them are poisonous. Always buy packaged mushrooms and never ever try to pick mushrooms from woods.
Mushroom Chili
Ingredients
- 1 packet button mushrooms quartered
- 1 medium sized onion julienned
- 1 cup spring onion green chopped
- 1 medium sized capsicum chopped
- ½ tablespoon ginger minced
- ½ tablespoon garlic minced
- 2 green chillies slit and seeds removed
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon chili sauce
- 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
- 1 Maggi cube
- 1 teaspoon corn flour
- To taste salt
Instructions
- In a wok or pan, heat oil and fry the onions.
- Once they are bit pinkish add ginger-garlic paste and mix.
- Now add the slit green chillies and capsicum and fry for few minutes.
- Then add the stock cube, pepper powder, soy and chilli sauce and mix properly.
- Add chopped mushrooms and mix well.
- After some time, mushroom will release water. Let it get cooked nicely. Add 3/4th cup water and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add corn flour and mix. Cook for 2 minutes or till the gravy thicken a bit.
- Add salt to taste.Garnish with chopped spring onion greens.
Notes
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Note: This recipe was published on 13th April 2013 and is republished.
Lots of info on Mushrooms..Chilly mushroom looks very delicious
Yummy and delicious looking mushroom curry.
Deepa
looks so delicious!
Love this Raksha. Mushrooms are very versatile veggies that we all love. Sory I am told to say except 1 all love. Kid no 2 loves only the almi we get in rains.
Mouthwatering here, simply love to have with some fried rice..
I agree with Priya.. A little fried rice and this would be nice on any day 🙂
looks yummy.
Delicious looking mushroom curry.