{"id":9692,"date":"2021-05-11T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2021-05-11T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:34:52","slug":"oriental-samfa-tacos-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/oriental-samfa-tacos-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Oriental Mushroom Tacos Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Veggies have come a long way since Meatless Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re celebrated on restaurant menus, supermarkets are lining up their shelves with veggie-based meals and home cooks have been fired up by fast and easy meatless meals. Top of the heap are umami-rich mushrooms. Not only are they spectacular in the flavour category, they\u2019re also low in fat, high in fibre and antioxidants and packed with vitamins and minerals.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate\u00a0Vegetarian Awareness Week (10 May &#8211; 16 May), we&#8217;ve highlighted some of our favourite recipes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oriental Mushroom Tacos<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/caramelised-onion-samfa-mascarpone-crustless-quiche-recipe\/\"><strong>Caramelised Onion, Mushroom &amp; Mascarpone Crustless Quiche<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wholewheat-spaghetti-with-samfa-kale-and-hazelnuts-recipe\/\"><strong>Wholewheat spaghetti with mushrooms, kale and hazelnuts<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>ORIENTAL MUSHROOM TACOS<\/h3>\n<p><em>Serves 4<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Preparation time: 15 minutes<br \/>\nCooking time: 10 minutes<br \/>\nDifficulty: Takes a bit of effort<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 fresh <strong>Portobello (big brown) <\/strong>mushrooms, cleaned, or 500g <strong>Button <\/strong>or<strong> Portabellini<\/strong> mushrooms, cleaned and threaded onto wooden skewers that have been soaked in water for 30 minutes<\/li>\n<li>3tbsp Korean barbecue marinade (available at Woolworths), or other barbecue marinade of your choice<\/li>\n<li>1 baby cabbage, finely shredded<\/li>\n<li>1 carrot, grated<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc red onion, finely sliced<\/li>\n<li>1tsp wasabi<\/li>\n<li>6tbsp good quality mayonnaise<\/li>\n<li>4 soft tacos (any flat-bread will work)<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd avocado, sliced<\/li>\n<li>handful coriander leaves<\/li>\n<li>lemon wedges, grilled on the braai until caramelized, about 5 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Method<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brush the mushrooms with the barbecue marinade and place straight onto a medium-hot braai, basting with more barbecue sauce as you go, and turning until mushrooms are cooked through, about 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, combine the cabbage, carrot, onion, wasabi and mayonnaise.<\/li>\n<li>Toast soft tacos on the braai, a couple of seconds on each side.<\/li>\n<li>Remove mushrooms from the braai, slice into thick strips, and divide between tacos. Top with slaw, avocado and coriander. Serve immediately with grilled lemon wedges.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Oriental-Mushroom-Tacos.jpg-Image-Credit_The-South-African-Mushroom-Farmers-Association.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"1725\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veggies have come a long way since Meatless Monday. They\u2019re celebrated on restaurant menus, supermarkets are lining up their shelves with veggie-based meals and home cooks have been fired up by fast and easy meatless meals. Top of the heap are umami-rich mushrooms. Not only are they spectacular in the flavour category, they\u2019re also low&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9701,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions\/9701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}