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Our healthy vegetarian side dish is prepared with sliced cremini “button” mushrooms in a skillet over the stove. The fabulous fungi are simmered slowly with garlic miso butter until creamy and tender.

Serve as a meat-free side dish sprinkled with sesame seeds and finely chopped chives, or add to your favourite burger, sandwich or pasta sauce recipes for a punch of flavour.

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What Are Miso Mushrooms?

If you’re looking for meat-free dinner ideas may I suggest this umami-packed Miso Mushroom recipe?

Fleshy mushrooms are slowly cooked in a skillet with a creamy garlic and miso infused butter until tender.

Miso Mushrooms can be served as a vegetarian side dish, or stuffed into your favourite burgers or sandwiches, and stirred into a creamy pasta sauce.

The healthy mushroom dish is really versatile and a great meat replacement to enjoy any night of the week.

We’ve used button (cremini) mushrooms in our recipe preparation but you can also use other edible mushroom varieties like shiitake, portobello, enoki, maitake, oyster, porcini or chanterelle.

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What Is Miso Paste?

Miso is a traditional Japanese seasoning. It is a thick paste produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and kōji and sometimes rice, barley, seaweed, or other ingredients.

Miso Paste is used for sauces and spreads, pickling vegetables, fish, or meats, and mixing with dashi soup stock to serve as miso soup, a Japanese culinary staple.

Miso is high in protein and rich in vitamins and minerals, and it played an important nutritional role in feudal Japan. Miso is still widely used in both traditional and modern cooking in Japan and has been gaining worldwide interest, often used in fusion cuisine.

Typically, miso is salty, but its flavour and aroma depend on the ingredients and fermentation process. Different varieties of miso have been described as salty, sweet, earthy, fruity, and savoury.

You can typically buy miso paste in the refrigerator section of your grocery store near other Asian ingredients like kimchi.

The popular Japanese condiment is an essential ingredient in our Miso Mushroom recipe, giving the dish a strong savoury umami flavour profile.

This easy recipe features button mushrooms simmered on the stove with a creamy garlic miso butter.

Health Benefits

Our homemade Miso Mushroom recipe is packed full of wholesome ingredients!

Chives are a humble vegetable packed with vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals. Regular consumption of onions can help boost digestive health and reduce the risk of developing heart disease.

Miso contains a good amount of vitamins, minerals and beneficial plant compounds.

Mushrooms are rich in B vitamins: riboflavin, niacin, and pantothenic acid. The combination helps protect heart health.

It is only recently that scientists have begun to identify the components responsible for garlic’s myriad health benefits. Rich in phytochemicals and potassium, garlic helps boost your immune system, fight cancer and protect your heart.

A useful source of copper, calcium, manganese, and phosphorus, sesame seeds help support circulatory, digestive and skeletal health.

Cook creamy miso mushroom in a skillet until tender.

Travel to Japan by Cooking Miso Butter Mushrooms at Home

I love traveling through Asia.

My first visit had me living in South Korea for a year as a teacher and it’s where I was first introduced to fermented vegetables like kimchi.

After my contract ended in Seoul I travelled throughout southeast Asia for 6 months, visiting India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Macau and the Maldives.

I spent 2 weeks traveling by bus and bullet train through Japan in the warm summer months. I started in Yokohama then explored Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Osaka.

What I found most fascinating is Japan’s distinct regional food cultures. Much like the regional cuisines found in France, Germany, Italy or Spain, each town in Japan had its own local speciality.

Miso Butter is a popular flavour used in modern Japanese cuisine. Visit a grocery store in Tokyo and you’ll find miso butter flavour in a variety of dishes and prepared foods, from potato chips to ramen, and Japanese hot pot.

I first tasted a version of this dish at a teppanyaki restaurant in Yokohama. Mushrooms were fried on a hot griddle with miso butter and served with grilled vegetables, lobster tail and filet mignon. The savoury and creamy mushrooms were a stand out dish that complimented the meal but also tasted great on their own. I was hooked!

Once home from a trip to Japan invite your friends and family over for dinner and share your love for Japanese cuisine by making this crowd-pleasing Miso Mushroom recipe!

Garnish this Miso Mushroom recipe with a sesame seeds and finely chopped chives.

My Family Loves Miso Mushroom

I love cooking delicious dishes inspired by my travels for friends and family.

After returning from a road trip of Japan I was excited to share my love for miso paste with my family and friends.

My parents had only ever tasted miso when slurping that sushi restaurant staple, Miso Soup. I now use a dollop of the savoury paste when preparing sautéed vegetables, pasta sauces, and whisked into scrambled eggs.

I knew my parents would enjoy this homemade Miso Mushroom recipe because they love butter-fried cremini, delicate Japanese flavours, and healthy vegetarian dishes.

This dish is very versatile it’s easy to serve it anytime of year. As a side dish it can be enjoyed as a simple meat-free lunch with steamed rice.

At summer barbecues we like to serve miso mushrooms as a side dish for grilled steaks or filling for burgers, sandwiches or wraps. We often double the recipe so we can use leftovers the next day in a creamy pasta sauce or topping for homemade pizza.

We love serving this Miso Mushroom recipe as a vegetarian side dish.

Miso Mushroom Ingredients

We like to make this recipe during the warm summer months when local mushrooms are in season and unique varieties like chanterelles and black trumpets can be foraged with ease.

The recipe is very versatile and you can certainly switch around the variety of mushroom, or better yet, prepare a medley!

Canola Oil: add a wee bit of vegetable oil to the pan to help adjust the smoking point so your miso butter doesn’t burn.
Mushrooms: we like to use simple cremini “button mushrooms,” as they are widely available and affordable. You can use any mushroom variety to make this recipe such as shiitake, portobello, enoki, maitake, oyster, porcini or chanterelle.
Butter: use room temperature butter as it has the perfect pliable texture so you can combine it with the other ingredients into a uniform miso butter. Use unsalted butter as miso is savoury. You can always add a sprinkle of kosher salt if you’d like additional salty flavour at the table.
Miso Paste: Japan produces many varieties of miso paste. The most popular are white miso paste and red miso. We suggest using white miso paste as it’s the most common and has a more subtle flavour.
Fresh Chives: my mother grows French-style chives in her garden but you can substitute for Chinese chives. Finely chopping the green parts of scallions also works as an alternative.
Garlic: we’ve used 3 garlic cloves in this recipe but if you like an intense garlic flavour feel free to add more. You can also add a 1/2 tps of minced ginger.
Sesame Oil: gives Miso Mushrooms a mouth-watering roasted sesame flavour.

Once you've cooked Miso Mushrooms you can stuff them into burgers or wraps or add them to a creamy pasta sauce. — Once you’ve cooked Miso Mushrooms you can stuff them into burgers or wraps or add them to a creamy pasta sauce.

How To Make An Easy Miso Mushroom Recipe

Follow our detailed recipe card below for easy step-by-step instructions.

Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are browned, about 15 minutes.
While the mushrooms are cooking, make the miso butter. Mix the softened butter with the miso paste and garlic cloves.
When the mushrooms are cooked, add the miso butter to the pan and cook the mushrooms for two minutes more. Drizzle the sesame oil over the mushrooms.
Serve with steamed rice sprinkled with roasted sesame seeds and chives. Or stuff in your favourite sandwich, wrap or creamy pasta sauce.

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Recipe Cooking Tips

This traditional Miso Butter Mushroom recipe is quick and easy to make during summer grilling season. Here are a few tips and tricks to get you started:

We like to use simple cremini “button mushrooms,” as they are widely available and affordable. You can use any mushroom variety to make this recipe such as shiitake, portobello, enoki, maitake, oyster, porcini or chanterelle. One of our favourite preparations of the dish is making a medley of mushrooms with miso butter. A great Japanese-inspired combination is maitake, shiitake and enoki.
Cook the ingredients in a large nonstick skillet or wok and simmer until mushrooms are tender.
Be sure to take your butter out of the fridge the day before you are cooking this recipe as it will need time to soften at room temperature so it is pliable and easy to mix with the other ingredients into a smooth miso butter.
You can prepare a Vegan Miso Mushroom recipe by substituting unsalted butter with additional canola oil or vegan butter.
We typically use unsalted butter and simply place a small bowl of kosher salt at the table so people can manage how much salt they consume in their diet.
We like to use white miso paste as it’s more subtle in flavour but if you like a flavour bomb feel free to substitute with red miso paste.
We pluck fresh French-style chives from my mothers garden in the summer but you can substitute with Chinese chives or the green ends of scallions.
You can add additional layers of flavour to the dish by adding 1/2 tsp of minced ginger or a sprinkle of chilli powder.

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Serving Suggestions

We love serving Japanese Miso Mushrooms in the summer when the fabulous fungi are in season but the dish can be prepared and enjoyed year round.

Creamy Miso Mushroom can be enjoyed on it’s own as a quick & easy vegetarian lunch over steamed rice, or is the perfect side dish for a finger-licking-good grilled steak, burger or chicken dinner during barbecue season.

Use leftover Miso Mushrooms as a topping for pizzas, flavour packed addition to creamy pastas sauces or stuffed into burgers, sandwiches, and wraps.

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