Japanese Mushroom Pate With Spring Onion recipe

Ingredients:
200 g shiitake mushrooms
200 g flat
mushrooms
100 g spring onion; finely diced
100 g cream
cheese; vegetarian
50 g shallots; chopped
2 cloves
garlic; chopped
30 ml olive oil


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50 ml japanese soy sauce
25 ml japanese rice vinegar
25
ml sake or sherry
10 g ginger; finely grated
10 g dark
brown sugar

Procedures:
Place the mushrooms on a baking tray and brush with 20ml
of olive oil.
Season and bake for 15 minutes until soft.

Place the
Japanese marinade ingredients in a bowl and put in the
mushrooms, allow
to marinate for 4 hours.

Heat in a saucepan the remaining olive oil
and cook the garlic and
shallots until tender. Remove from the marinade
the flat mushrooms and
half of the shiitake mushrooms and retain half of
the shiitake mushrooms.

Drain well and place in a food processor and
add the shallots and garlic,
cream cheese and puree.

Season with
salt and pepper and mix in the chopped coriander and the
chopped spring
onion.