One Hot Mushroom Chettinad
I have a folder in my browser favorites called Recipes-to-Try and it is overflowing with all the links I have been collecting over the past year… I have tried so many recipes from other bloggers, and I normally thank them through comments or e-mail, but I have never taken the time to take a picture and write a post about it. The reason behind this is nothing but sheer laziness.
All the food bloggers out there know how much hard work is involved in cooking, taking a decent picture, coming up with an introduction to the post, and typing up the recipe making sure all the ingredients and the quantity mentioned is accurate. We know that once we have a recipe out there at least one person will try it, and we don’t want them to have a bad experience. So the few meals that we cook from other blogs or the ones that we have already blogged about are such a relief, it just means that we can actually have a hot meal for a change. That doesn’t mean that we don’t appreciate the people who painstakingly wrote out the recipe, but sometimes we are just too tired to make a big deal out of it.
That is where events like Taste and Create becomes important., an opportunity to show our appreciation for our fellow bloggers. It is a blog event around community, sharing, tasting, and blogging - a concept all of us food bloggers are familiar with. For the event, we are paired with another food blogger, and are supposed to cook and taste one dish from our partner’s blog and make a post about that. What a terrific idea, I couldn’t resist but signup for it.
My randomly chosen partner was none other than Nupur of One Hot Stove, a blogger who doesn’t need much intro. I first came to know of Nupur during my early days of blogging sometime last year, when she was hosting a highly ambitious, but hugely successful blog event called A to Z of Indian Vegetables. The idea was to cook a vegetable dish that starts with the alphabet of the week, every week for 26 weeks. Most of my early vegetarian dishes were specifically made for Nupur. If it wasn’t for Nupur, I’d have never made dishes like Ilaneer drink, that became a favorite summer drink.
When I heard that I was paired with Nupur, I went hunting for a recipe in her nicely categorized recipe index. She has been blogging for three years now, so you can imagine how many choices I had to chose from. I was going through the index, and the name Mushroom Chettinad jumped out to me, you all know how much I love spicy food. The recipe was so simple, and it looked super delicious, I didn’t want to look any further. On hindsight I think it would’ve been more appropriate to pick a Marathi dish, since it is a very unfamiliar territory to me. I guess I can still do it, we don’t always need a blog event to try something new. This mushroom dish turned out so good, hot and spicy, just the way we love it, I am so glad I picked this. 
By the way, Nupur is an expert in recipe writing, in fact she has a tutorial on the subject. Check out the two part tutorial for some great suggestions on the art of recipe writing. Her recipe was so easy to follow, I just copied her instructions, with just the slight modifications I did. I used baby bella mushrooms instead of wild mushrooms, and reduced the amount of tamarind paste, since my tamarind paste is really strong, and 1 tsp of this particular brand would have been a lot. If you are using fresh tamarind paste, by all means increase the amount to 1 tsp. I also increased the spice level a bit.
Source: http://onehotstove.blogspot.com/2006/07/too-darned-hot-mushroom-chettinad.html
Ingredients
- 3 cups mixed wild mushrooms (I used baby bella mushrooms), cleaned and quartered
- 1/2 tsp tamarind paste
- salt to taste
- cilantro, minced, for garnish
- For tempering
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 5-6 fresh curry leaves
- 1 tbsp split yellow peas (chana dal)
- 5-6 black peppercorns
- 2 dried red chillies
Method
- Roast all the ingredients for the spice mixture. Cool and grind in a spice/coffee grinder to a fine powder. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a skillet. Add the mustard seeds and curry leaves and stir around for a few seconds till the seeds pop.
- Saute the mushrooms in the tempered oil. Season with salt.
- When the mushrooms start sweating, add the spice mixture and saute for a couple of minutes on low-medium heat.
- Add the tamarind paste (and a few tablespoons of water if the mixture starts sticking to the pan). Stir for a minute.
- Garnish with cilantro.
This was done in a matter of minutes, and tasted amazing. We had it with dosa’s and coconut chutney to cool down the heat. What a heavenly combo! This will go great with rice or roti too. Thank You Nupur for a keeper recipe, and thank you Myamii for a great event!
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Simply gorgeous. I have a folder like that too. I’ve never heard of this event and think it’s totally awesome. You chose a great dish!
*drool*! This looks delicious! That is a great selection from Nupur’s repository
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really hot find, Sig! I know i am gonna’ love it, given my fondness for mushrooms
Btw, i am back
i had mushroom chettinad 2 days back. i didn’t know nupur had posted the recipe. i got mine from internet but the ingredients and the method seems same as that of nupur’s. looks d-lish sig darling
and thats a gr8 event too. thats why i love coffee’s MBP which lets us to create blogger’s recipe
wow..looks delicious…lovely one..I am sure i can replace that with paneer!..
that looks so SPICY! And the event sounds like so much fun! is it over? how do i get a pair?
You made it even spicier than it already was?!
I love your pairing with dosa and chutney, Sig…I would never have thought of that!
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Thank you for your sweet words, and it was great to be paired with you
i love anything mushroom and anything chettinad…….my list too is burgeoning!! looks fab….
Never heard of that event…that dish sure looks spicy!! there that goes into my recipe folder now!
The dish sure looks tempting, what a lovely meal you had…and that seems to be a fun event.
YUMMY!!! Looks dark and shiny, glad you liked it. I saw this event y’day but didn’t choose it to add my name. I think MBP will be back. Enjoy, chutney looks delcious!:)
The curry looks so hot n spicy Sig and the combo with dosa wud surely tasted amazing..
Lovely find from Nupur’s *vast n yummy* repository of recipes!
Siri
Yummy mushroom dish. I love when the mushrooms are spiced up like this.
Love the chunteny and the dosa
That’s exactly how I imagine a mushroom chettinad in a restaurant would look – and that’s a compliment to both of you, tho’ I haven’t seen Nupur’s recipe.
Sig!! wow!! I would love to taste that!!!!
and now how did i miss this recipe from Nupur’s???
What an absolutely droolworthy picture.. the mushrooms look fiery and extremely delicious. I do remember seeing it on Nupur’s blog but thanks for reminding me that I need to try this soon.
Looks phenomenal, Sig! I am totally drooling.
Hi Sig,
The pics are amazing. I too had made Nupur’s muschroom chettinad some months back, tastes wonderful. We had it with mango curry and rice.
Pairing with dosas and chutney is great.
If there is THE RECIPE that I always cook mushrooms with, it is this. Totally delicious.
Didn’t know about this event. Spicy, now that is my kind of girl
Really sounds yummy, will try this for sure.
Dosa and mushroom chettinad! That’s interesting….hmm maybe I will try the combo. Looks spicy….just the way I like it :drool: Great entry
mushrooms look really tasty with the tamarind!
That looks delicious indeed Sig! there are so many great recipes on Nupur’s blog this must have been a tough pick!:)
nicely done!:)
The mention of Chettinad had me clicking away to reach here…love the look of it, bet it was delicious.
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Sig, the Mushroom Chettinad looks yum delicious. love the dosai and chutney too
This looks simply delicious !
yey! a veggie dish from you..Thansk to Nupur and T&C
Luks wonderful! And yeah it is going into my ‘recipes-to-try” folder in the IE fav list! I have one too u see 
Delicious and spicy… even i make Nupur’s Mushroom Chettinad and its absolutely delicious..
Nice entry..
oh wow! the dish looks yummy!!!! And yes, I have a whole lot of bookmarked recipes too, which I’m yet to try……
Ooooh these look goooood. I love mushrooms! Never tried making spicy mushrooms though, sounds delish!
I love it already… of course with spice levels being very low
My mushroom saung is so similar… this weekend I think 
i want the full plate w/ all the goodies :drool:
Sig
The mushroom looks gorgeous.. Is the plate resembling a banana leaf ? It looks cool !
thanks for giving me a new mushroom recipe. will surely try it. was tired of the same old thing
love cooking mushrooms indian style ,it looks ssoooo hearty
Hi Sig,
Mushroom looks too good and very tempting:) I like all the spicy versions of dishes especially if they look extra hot
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i used to find so hard to make a grt tasting dish with mushrooms…but not any more…luved this recipe..so simple nd DELICIOUSsss..n less thn 15 minutes a grt tasting dish is served..keep posting some easy, breezy dishes like thse.
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I tried this dish and it came out good. However, i did not get the color as in the picture. How did you get it?
I think it’s the tamarind paste that gives it the color.