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Default How to prevent shrinking mushrooms

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ebrian > wrote:

> I was experimenting with some mushrooms in a pasta sauce last night
> and found that I had to keep adding mushrooms because they were
> disappearing (shrinking) on me. Is there a trick or way to prepare
> them so that when they won't shrink, or shrink less during cooking?


Put them in at the end. Then again, some people don't like raw
mushrooms. I usually put them in pasta sauce about 20 minutes before we
eat. That's a reasonable compromise for us. YMMV.

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Dan Abel
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