Mushroom Rice Recipe (Continental Style)

This Mushroom Rice is easy and a flavorful recipe of sauteed button mushrooms, spices and herbs mixed with cooked rice. The vegan mushroom rice is made in Continental style and is also gluten-free. Makes for a wholesome lunch or dinner.

About Mushroom Rice Recipe

A simple, one pot Mushrooom Rice recipe that is not only flavorful but very easy to make. In the recipe succulent white button mushrooms are cooked in a flavorful base of sautéed onions together with herbs and seasonings and later mixed with tender cooked rice.

The most amazing thing is that it is not an elaborate or complicated recipe. Easy for bachelors, students and single people. If you have leftover rice then you could use it right away to make this recipe.

To make this mushroom rice, I have only used the following ingredients – mushrooms, garlic, scallions (spring onions) plus dried herbs and seeds like oregano, thyme and crushed white sesame seeds.

But you could use other dried herbs like rosemary, parsley, sage or whatever you are fond of. You could also use fresh herbs.

This mushroom rice is more Continental style than Chinese or Indian style. It is not all spicy but yet flavorful and tasty.

If you need some spice in the rice, you could add tobasco sauce or paprika or more of black pepper.

If you like the combo of mushrooms with rice then you can make few mushroom rice recipes like:

1. Mushroom Pulao
2. Ambur Biryani
3. Mushroom Fried Rice
4. Mushroom Biryani

How to make Mushroom Rice

1. Measure all the spices, ingredients and keep them ready before you start to make the dish.

You need to cook ⅔ cup of rice before you begin this recipe. You can choose to cook the rice in a pan or Instant pot or stovetop pressure cooker adding water as required.

Overall we need 2 cups of cooked rice. Preferably try to use basmati rice or any good quality long-grained rice for this recipe.

Make sure the rice does not become sticky after cooking it. Once the rice grains are cooked then cool them completely in a strainer.

2. In a pan heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add 1 teaspoon of chopped garlic and saute for some seconds. You don’t need to brown the garlic.

You can use any neutral flavored oil instead of olive oil.

4. Then add 3 to 4 chopped small to medium-sized scallions or spring onion whites (about ½ cup).

You can also use shallots or regular onions instead of spring onions.

5. Begin to saute the spring onions stirring often.

6. Saute till the spring onions become translucent and softened.

7. Now add 400 grams of chopped button mushrooms. Start sauteing them on medium-low to medium heat stirring at intervals.

8. Initially the mushrooms will leave a lot of water. Saute till all the water dries up in the pan. The mushrooms should be completely cooked by this time.

9. Then add the following herbs and spices to sauteed mushrooms:

• ¼ teaspoon of ground black pepper or white pepper
• 1 teaspoon of crushed white sesame seeds – The sesame seeds can be lightly crushed using a mortar pestle.
• ½ teaspoon of thyme
• ½ teaspoon of oregano

10. Stir and mix well. You can also add your preferred herbs or spices.

11. Now add 2 cups of cooked rice. The rice has to be completely cooled when you add it at this step. You can also use any leftover cooked rice.

12. Mix and then saute the cooked rice with the mushrooms for a couple of minutes.

13. Add salt as required.

14. Stir gently and mix well. Switch off the heat.

15. Garnish with scallions greens or cilantro.

Serve Mushroom rice hot or warm with a salad or you could just drizzle some extra virgin olive oil to the rice and enjoy the bowl of mushroom rice.

It makes for a healthy and comforting lunch or dinner.

Expert Tips

• Its easy if you have leftover rice or else you will have to cook the rice. I also recommend to soak the rice for at least 20 minutes before cooking. Rinse the rice really well in water to get rid of any extra starch so that you get separate non-sticky grains after cooking them.
• You can also consider adding a bit of soy sauce to the rice.
• If you do not have crushed white sesame seeds, then you could also use whole sesame seeds. Roast them and add to the rice.
• You could use fresh herbs instead of dried herbs.
• You can also use other varieties of edible mushrooms or mixed mushrooms. This will give a nice texture and crunchiness to the recipe. Cremini mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms are also some good options.
• Use aged basmati rice or any good quality long grained rice for best texture and flavor.

More Tasty Rice Recipes

• Pulao
• Biryani
• Khichdi
• Veg Fried Rice

Mushroom Rice recipe from the archives was first published on May 2011.