Chilli Mushroom
Dietary and allergen labels, nutrition and cost are worked out automatically from each recipe’s ingredients and are a guide only. Check the labels on what you buy yourself — especially for allergies or coeliac disease. More about recipe labels.
Opens Equal House and puts it on the night you choose. No app yet? It’s free, and the recipe comes with you when you install it.
Ingredients
- 500 g chestnut mushrooms
- 4 tbsp cornflour
- 5 garlic cloves
- 15 g fresh ginger, grated
- 1 green pepper, sliced
- 4 spring onions, sliced
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp red chilli sauce
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 180 kcal
- Protein
- 4.9 g
- Carbohydrate
- 15.4 g
- of which sugars
- 4.2 g
- Fat
- 10.6 g
- of which saturates
- 0.9 g
- Fibre
- 2.2 g
- Salt
- 1.46 g
Estimated from typical values for each ingredient — a guide, not a substitute for the label on what you actually buy.
Method
- 1
Quarter the mushrooms and toss with 2 tbsp of the cornflour.
- 2
Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over high heat and fry the mushrooms for 4-5 minutes until golden, then set aside.
- 3
Add the garlic and ginger to the wok and stir-fry for 30 seconds, then add the green pepper and stir-fry for 2 minutes.
- 4
Stir in the soy sauce and red chilli sauce, and whisk the remaining cornflour with 100ml water, then pour in and bubble for 2 minutes until glossy.
- 5
Return the mushrooms to the wok with most of the spring onions and toss to coat.
- 6
Scatter with the remaining spring onions and serve with rice.

Plan your meals — and share the cooking
Equal House builds your shopping list by aisle, times the cooking for dinner, and shares it out fairly. Free to start.
Free to start on your iPhone Free to start on your Android phone Free to start · No ads · Your family's data stays yours.