All About Oyster Mushrooms

How Should I Store Oyster Mushrooms?

Mushrooms will take up and give off moisture in the fridge, so store them in a brown paper bag. They’ll be good for about 7-10 days.

How To Cook Oyster Mushrooms

Oyster mushrooms are mild, versatile, and take up flavor- meaning they’ll absorb the flavors you cook them in rather than giving off a lot of quintessential mushroom flavors to a dish when used fresh. Cooking oyster mushrooms can be as simple as pan frying with a little garlic and butter. When pan frying oysters, we like to treat them like we’re frying an egg- cook through, flip once, avoid stirring and scrambling motions with the spatula. We treat them gently when pan frying so they’ll crisp up- taking on the crispy characteristic of bacon around the edges while still being tender in the center.

They can also be baked, sautéed, or dehydrated. They’re delicious battered, buttered, or sauced. Here our some of our go-to recipes.

Oyster Mushroom Recipes:

• Air Fried Oyster Mushrooms

• Balsamic Glazed Oyster Mushrooms – Shawarma Style

• Taiwanese Style Popcorn Mushrooms

• Crispy Oyster Mushroom Sandwich with Basil & Parmesan

• Buttermilk Fried Oyster Mushrooms

• Oyster Mushroom Satay

• Air Frier Oyster Mushroom Jerky

• Crispy Fried Oyster Mushrooms

Recipes that Work Great with Oyster Mushrooms:

• Butter Mushrooms in White Wine with Herbs and Garlic

• Mushroom Risotto

• Cast Iron Steak and Mushrooms

Preserving Oyster Mushrooms

If you’ve got oyster mushrooms in the fridge that are nearing the end of their prime there are two easy, delicious ways to use preserve them!

1.) Dehydrating

Our favorite way to preserve oysters is to dehydrate them. Oysters dehydrate incredibly well and can then be used soups, stews, stocks, gravies, chilis, stroganoffs, risottos, and pot pies all winter long- they’re just as delicious as fresh mushrooms and incredibly easy to use.

We often refer to dehydrated mushrooms as mushroom sprinkles- because you can easily crumble them right in your hand and dust them into just about anything you’re cooking up to give it a nice umami flavor.

Dried mushrooms can also be powdered in a spice grinder or food processor and used to thicken soups and sauces or used to flavor bread doughs. A little definitely goes a long way as dehydrating concentrates their flavor!

Dehydrated mushrooms can be incredibly tricky to identify- if you’ll be dehydrating and storing multiple different types of mushrooms and want to know which jar of dried shroomies in your pantry is which, be sure to label them.

2) Freezing

Oyster mushrooms freeze best if they’ve already been cooked. They work great chopped, sautéed in a pan with garlic or onion and some oil or butter, and then frozen in silicon trays. Then they can be added to sauces, stews, stroganoffs, and risottos.