Cooking with Mushrooms - Recipes

 

Magic mushrooms have so many nutritional benefits that their earthy, pungent flavour seems like a small price to pay, but why should you have to? There are so many delicious ways to include magic mushrooms in treats and meals that the experience can be excellent from the first nibble.Please keep reading to find the best recipes that star our favourite funky ingredient: magic mushrooms.

Where Can I Find This Magical Ingredient?

Fresh mushrooms

If you're looking for fresh mushrooms, it may be really easy or really hard, depending on where you live. As someone inhabiting Vancouver Island and fostering a deep love for foraging, I see them growing through the underbrush all the time. In fact, they grow wildly in my backyard, so I've never had any issues procuring them fresh.

Dried mushrooms

If you don't have access to fresh mushrooms, then dry mushrooms are a perfect choice; it may take some work to cover up their more pungent flavour. Luckily, dried mushrooms are even easier to find, and some people have never actually seen a magic mushroom in its fresh state. I suggest getting them from a trusted source like Pure Green Express so that you know what kind of mushrooms you're working with. Shop Magic Mushrooms here.

Beginners Guide to Dosing

Many dosing charts online will take your weight and strain into consideration. This is the basic dosing for the average Psilocybe Cubensis strain and is a good starting point but as always start low and slow. I suggest investing in a kitchen scale If you don't already have one. It will make your life a million times easier.

25mg-200mg for a microdose

1g for a small dose that should leave you feeling light without the hallucinogenic properties coming into play

1-2.5g for a recreational dose

2.5-5g for a recreational, spiritual dose

5g or more for a heavy spiritual dose, I have never done this much, but I highly suggest doing this amount in a safe space or with a spirit guide so that you can get the most out of it. Definitely not for beginners or someone that is not in a sound mind space

Nutritional Benefits

Mushrooms are packed with essential nutrients and vitamins, and the psychedelic varieties are no different. Not only will you reap all of the medicinal and mental benefits of a trip while still feeding your body the good things it needs. Eating a mushroom snack will give you an extra dose of B, D, K, A, C vitamins, Iron, and Copper, and it is low in fats and calories. How could you go wrong?

Recipes

Magic Truffle Salad

While the truffles I'm referring to in this article are psychedelic, they aren't always, and if you have a dinner guest who isn't on the same page about going on a big trip, then you can always substitute. They are related to the better-known psilocybin mushrooms but are at a different stage of fungal development. Instead of growing upwards into the iconic mushroom cap, truffles are dormant, storing nutrients in hardened masses under the ground until the environment is perfect for them to grow up toward the sky. In this case, they only make it above the ground when they're foraged for salads and snacks. If you can’t get psychedelic truffles, no worries; simple magic mushrooms of your choosing and dose will work.

Ingredients:

  • -2 cups mixed greens
  • -1/2 cup goat cheese
  • -A handful of pine nuts, pecans or walnuts
  • -1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
  • -1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
  • -1 tsp black pepper
  • -1 tsp mustard
  • -Chosen dose of psychedelic truffles or Magic mushrooms.

Instructions:

  1. Wash and dry greens before placing them in an oven-safe dish
  2. Toast your chosen nuts in a pan until golden brown and then toss into salad greens
  3. Make your salad dressing by mixing together the sesame oil, apple cider vinegar, pepper, and mustard.
  4. Toss salad with dressing and crumble the goat cheese on top
  5. Put the salad in the oven on broil for around 1-2 minutes, until goat cheese is warm and gooey
  6. Let the salad cool before finely chopping the truffles to the top.
  7. Serve and enjoy

Magic Mushroom Fricando

This traditional Spanish stew already showcases mushrooms' delicious, fungal flavours, so substituting the usual variety for shrooms is easy. If you love a one-pot meal packed with delicious flavours, then this one is for you.

Ingredients:

  • -1 kg of beef tenderloin
  • -2.5 cups of mixed mushrooms (chanterelle, morels, buttons, psychedelic, really whichever ones you love with your preferred dosage of psychedelics)
  • -2 onions
  • -4 cloves of garlic
  • -2 carrots
  • -2 stalks of celery
  • -1 green pepper
  • -1 red pepper
  • -2 ripe tomatoes
  • -1 cup of red wine
  • -1 cup of beef broth
  • -2 bay leaves
  • -Salt and pepper to taste
  • -Olive oil
  • -Flour

Instructions:

  1. Cut the beef tenderloin into thin strips and toss in flour
  2. Sauté the flour-coated beef in an oiled pan until golden brown. Put aside your delicious, crispy beef until needed.
  3. In your heated saucepan, sauté the onions, garlic, celery, bell peppers, carrots, and tomatoes until soft.
  4. Add in all of your chosen mushrooms (except the magic ones, they don't like the heat)
  5. Add the meat to your vegetable and mushrooms, mix and stir well
  6. Add the red wine and reduce it on medium heat for a few minutes
  7. Add the beef broth, bay leaves, salt and pepper
  8. Add a lid to the saucepan and simmer all those flavours together on medium-low heat for about an hour.
  9. Take off the heat, add the magic mushrooms and serve.

These are a couple of my favourite recipes, but there are plenty more where that came from. Let me know If you love them and want more in the comments!