Button mushrooms
मशरूम
Fresh Produce
Meaty texture and savoury depth; carries whatever it is cooked in.
What to know
Roughly nine-tenths water. Dropped raw into a gravy it releases all of it and thins the sauce, so it is seared dry on its own first and added back at the end.
- Choosing it
- Firm, dry caps with the gills still closed underneath. Slimy or darkening caps are past it.
- Storing it
- Paper bag in the fridge, never sealed plastic — trapped moisture turns them slimy within a day.
- By eye
- 200g ≈ one standard punnet ≈ a generous handful once quartered
Measures
- 1 piece ≈ 18 g
- 1 cup ≈ 58 g
Cups here are the Indian 200 ml cup, not the 240 ml US cup — a common reason a recipe does not work. Weigh where you can; the grams are the figure we cook to.