I have tasted mushroom pepper fry in a restaurant and I wanted to recreate the hotel style pepper mushroom at home too….Last time when I bought mushrooms they were a little big so the flavours were not blended well so this time I took a pack of small button mushrooms and made this spicy mushroom pepper fry yesterday to pair it along with pulao and it turned out finger lickingly good that the curry was almost over soon after I clicked, So I made it again with another cleaned batch of mushrooms to pair it with corn pulao for lunch 🙂 Now I have started liking mushrooms again so its going to be mushroom love atleast for a while now or until I forget this pepper fry 🙂
Before you ask me, let me tell you thats the new steel pan I got from Chennai 🙂
Mushroom Pepper Fry Recipe
Preparation Time:15 minutes | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves:2
Recipe Category: Starter | Recipe Cuisine: World
Recipe Category: Starter | Recipe Cuisine: World
Cleaned Mushroom – 1 cup chopped
Whole Pepper – 1 tbsp
Capsicum – 1/2 cut lengthwise
Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp
Big Onion – 1 cut lengthwise
Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
Red Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala powder – 1/4 tsp
Coriander Leaves – 2 tsp finely chopped
Salt – to taste
To Temper:
Oil – 1 tbsp
Fennel Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves – a small sprig
Red Chilli – 1 whole
Method:
- Dry roast whole pepper for 2-3mins or till nice aroma comes.Powder it coarsely,Set aside.Heat oil in a pan – add the items listed under ‘to temper’ let it splutter.
- Then add onion,ginger garlic paste and saute till golden brown.Add capsicum and saute for few mins until it shrinks a bit.
- Add mushrooms and saute well.It will start leaving water , then add pepper powder,coriander,red chilli and garam masala powders and mix well.Cook in low medium flame for 5-7mins till mushrooms turn soft and the masalas come together.Add required salt, give a quick mix garnish with coriander leaves and switch off.
Serve hot with phulka / chapathi.
My Notes:
- Adding capsicum is purely optional.
- You can even add fennel powder if you dont like to add whole fennel seeds.
- This is spicy fry so adjust spice powders if you want to reduce hotness.
- Adding freshly ground pepper powder gives a great flavour.
- This pairs well with phulka / white pulaos / or even with plain rice.
- Mushrooms cook faster so dont overcook.No need to add water just saute in oil.Mushrooms will leave out water and thats enough for it to get cooked.
- If you want more gravy then add tomato puree after onion is fried.
sucheta dalvi says
April 23, 2014 at 5:39 amDear Sharmi,
I see tomato in your pictures, but not in the list / is it red capsicum. Please clear it.
SHARMILEE J says
April 23, 2014 at 12:55 pmYes it is red capsicum…..
Dheepika Sankar says
October 3, 2014 at 1:05 amI tried this. It came out really well.. Thanks a lot..
AparnaRajeshkumar says
April 23, 2014 at 5:52 amlovely fry recipe . nice look
Deepa says
April 23, 2014 at 6:05 amI love mushroom. Will try definitely, superb.
Dipti Joshi says
April 23, 2014 at 11:23 amI like this dry preparation. I have already started imagining it as a stuffing into buns.
hemavardhini says
April 23, 2014 at 12:42 pmMouth drolling mushroom fry
Nupur UK-Rasoi says
April 23, 2014 at 3:00 pmLovely recipe as always Sharmi ! Wanted to tell you, one of my friend is a big big fan of your blog. She says if she has to look for some recipe, she explores your blog first and if she doesn't find it then moves on to Google.. you are an inspiration 🙂
Anu s kitchendelights says
April 24, 2014 at 6:22 amTempting dry recipe…perfect to roll into chapatis.
Saraladevi Thangadurai says
April 24, 2014 at 8:32 amWow looks so tempting….:-)
Sri Dhivya Siva Shankar says
May 9, 2014 at 10:43 amCan we use babycorn ingredient instead of mushroom??
SHARMILEE J says
May 9, 2014 at 1:55 pmYes you can….
Sathis kumar says
May 13, 2014 at 9:28 pmVery nice sharmi
Nandhini V says
June 23, 2014 at 6:49 amTried it and taste is good..keep IP the good work..God bless
Latha says
November 17, 2014 at 1:28 pmI have always used mushroom in gravy or fried rice. After seeing this recipe, I tried it a couple of times and it has always been a big hit with my family. Thank you!
lavanyaaaa says
November 26, 2014 at 1:30 amThis recipe came out very well.. Thanks a lot for sharing…
Padma Pai says
December 18, 2014 at 6:26 pmtried it …and it was very yummy
Vaishali Kini says
March 17, 2015 at 4:52 pmTried it today…tasted awesome…thinking of using it in masala dosa instead of potato bhaji
lakshmi senthil says
June 20, 2015 at 4:55 amGood collection of recipes….I tried channa biriyani came out well… Going to try mushroom today…
Preethicka Cs says
July 2, 2015 at 10:45 pmSharmi, I and my husband love mushrooms, wanted to try after eating in a restaurant, found it on your blog. I tried this recipe, it was very delicious. Thanks a lot. After following ur blog I need not bother mommy for recipes. From now on I am preparing your recipes for a few veggies.
renuka says
August 13, 2015 at 3:01 pmI tried out this recipe .. it tastes awesome.. thanks 🙂
Food World says
September 1, 2015 at 6:55 pmThanks for this yummy recipe.I tried it last night it came really so yummy and delicious.I must say the way you explain and the image are really help me lot to prepare.
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