Thursday, October 06, 2005

Mushroom Bruschetta - First Attempt

If you start wondering what is Bruschetta, here's a short explanation:

[extracted from wikipedia]

Bruschetta is a food originating in central Italy. It consists of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with extra-virgin olive oil, salt and and spicy red pepper. Variations may include toppings of tomato, vegetables and/or cheese.

It is worth noting that in Italian, bruschetta is pronounced "bru-SKET-ta," though in English-speaking countries it is commonly pronounced "bru-SHET-ta."


I stumbled upon a Mushroom Bruschetta recipe at this website: Mushroom bruschetta - MediterrAsian.com, it seems to be quite an easy recipe for me to make use of the extra virgin olive oil I bought, and so I tried.

It turns out pretty well, here my version of the recipe (simplified):

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
8 pieces of shiitake mushroom
2 slices of thick hotel bread
1 clove garlic—peeled and cut in half diagonally
some bottled parsley herb
some black pepper

Methods:
1. Use 2 tablespoon of olive oil to fry the mushrooms under medium heat. Add some black pepper and parsley.
2. Toast the bread until golden and RUB one side of the bread with the cut side of garlic.
3. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil over the slices.
4. Spread the fried mushroom over the slices.
5. Voila!

Happy trying. I would add in bottled black olive and red pepper flakes on my next attempt :)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

u make urself this dish ar? boleh makan ke? >.<

marn said...

of coz make myself and of coz edible, u ask ah li n see

Anonymous said...

can eat d...but next time must make more...oishii daiyo...

marn said...

tq ah li :P

marn said...

though i dunno wat daiyo means :P