Looking for a way to bring out the flavor in Crimini mushrooms? Mushrooms often pose difficulties for the kitchen, and the tendency is to toss them in with some other dish, be it salad or stir-fry, which works and whatnot, but it sacrifices the earthy loving of the mushroom and sublimates it to something else. So here's a quick way to make a mouth-popping dish that avoids that problem. You will need:
6-8 oz. of Crimini mushrooms, organic and local if you can.
1 Leek.
4 tablespoons of teriyaki sauce.
1 tablespoon of brown rice syrup (or honey).
1 generous teaspoon of sesame oil.
1/2 a lemon, or a whole one if on the small side.
Get a baking dish out and preheat the broiler. Put in the teriyaki sauce, the rice syrup, and the sesame oil. Then squeeze the juice out of the lemon (seed it first if you need to). Whisk the mixture together. Now wash the Crimini mushrooms and pat dry with a towel. Add them to the bowl and stir until coated. Now lay the leek out horizontally and cut it into 1 inch sections and then cut each of those length-wise twice, rotating the section 90 degrees between cuts (in effect, just cubing each 1 inch section). Add to the bowl, and stir until coated. By now, the broiler is ready, so pop them in the oven and cook for four minutes. Pull them out, given them a good stir, and then broil for another minute or two. The mushrooms will have busted out into a nutty brown and the leeks gone soft and lost some of their fibrous quality when it's all done. Serve as is with a side of brown rice. Fast, healthy, and scrumptious.