Mushroom Pizza
Mushrooms are a classic pizza topping. You can put oyster, shiitake and lion’s mane mushrooms on a ready pizza from your neighborhood pizzeria, a store-bought freezer pizza, or on a pizza made from scratch. If you want to give them a special flavor boost, you can flambé the mushrooms. If you are making pizzas from scratch, try putting these fried mushrooms on a ‘white’ pizza with crème fraîche as a base, some cheese of your taste, capers and thinly sliced garlic.
Topping for 2 pizzas
Ingredients
- 100g oyster, shiitake or lion’s mane mushrooms, cut or torn into bite-size chunks
- 3 tbsp Olive oil
- 5g Butter (optional)
- ½ tsp Salt & pepper
- ½ dl Brandy (optional)
Method
- Add the mushrooms, half the olive oil and the salt to a medium-sized bowl and mix well. Set aside for 15 min.
- Heat a frying pan to medium hot and add the remaining olive oil and the butter if using.
- Fry the mushrooms until just starting to brown on the edges, but not too much.
- To flambé them, bring the heat up to high, add the brandy and set on fire. Take off the heat as soon as the flames have died down.
- Add the mushrooms to your pizza before it goes into the oven.