Mushroom Chopped “Liver”

Embrace your vegan and vegetarian mates and serve this vegan model of the Jewish basic. Print Recipe Pin Recipe American, Jewish Servings 6

Elements

3 tablespoons olive oil
1 small crimson onion diced
1 10.58 oz field Large Mountain Lion’s Mane Mushroom Crumble
3 tablespoons finely chopped walnuts
salt
freshly floor black pepper

Directions

Warmth the oil in a small skillet. Add the onions and prepare dinner till the onions are beginning to look a bit black across the edges and are very smooth and translucent all over the place else. Add the Lion’s Mane Mushroom Crumble and the walnuts. Prepare dinner over excessive warmth, till the mushroom crumbles begin to caramelize.
Take away from warmth and permit to chill to shut to room temperature. Scrape every little thing from the pan onto a slicing board. Chop the combination till into high-quality crumbs that begin to stick collectively. Stir in salt and pepper to style.
Refrigerate 1 hour previous to serving for finest taste.

I can’t resist a recipe contest! I used to be enthusiastic about this one as a result of one of many merchandise was Large Mountain’s Lion’s Mane Mushroom Crumble. It’s a precrumbled mixture of Lion’s Mane, Portobello, and Shiitake mushrooms and can be utilized as a substitute for beef. After I had gone to the Pure Meals Expo within the earlier than instances I attempted plenty of mushroom inhansed meals and was impressed with how meaty it may style. I have already got made burgers and issues with a mixture of each beef and mushrooms so it wasn’t an enormous leap to assume you could possibly simply use a mushroom mix (these crumbles even have pea protein and carrots to bulk it up a bit) as an alternative of meat altogether. I really like mushrooms!

The theme was “vacation” and I obtained to desirous about the meals we just about solely make on the holidays. Stick with me as a result of I do know this isn’t stylish however one meals we usually make is chopped liver. It’s one thing my husband has fond reminiscences of rising up in a Jewish household in New York Metropolis and it’s simple to make with not solely hen livers however the liver that is available in your vacation turkey’s giblet bag. We obtained within the behavior of constructing it each Thanksgiving with the turkey liver along with the standard Jewish holidays. It is vitally intensely savory. Clearly, we’re okay with consuming liver however now we have so many vegetarian and vegan relations and mates and even meat-eaters who’re simply grossed out by liver that I all the time wished there was an alternate.

Lower to me opening the field of mushroom crumbles and considering that it regarded similar to—chopped liver! I needed to go for it! I added some walnut to present it a extra correct mouthfeel however, very like chopped liver, its taste comes from the “meaty” mushrooms and the blackened onions. I’ve all the time thought that chopped liver’s dominated taste was onion anyway so it shouldn’t have been a shock this was such a profitable dupe! The feel was very shut—we like a chunkier unfold vs. a puree–and it was simply as intensively savory as the unique however was vegan! I can’t wait to make this once more at Passover. It was really easy and scrumptious, I might need eaten all of it in sooner or later. It’s so a lot lighter than the unique you are able to do that!