Keep Your Gut Healthy With This Easy Recipe

Mixed Mushrooms in Balsamic Butter

Source: Sterman, Andrew. Welcoming Food: Diet as Medicine for Home Cooks and Other Healers

This recipe from Andrew Sterman has been one of our favourites. It’s balanced, health-supportive, ingredients are inexpensive, easy to make, tastes wonderful, and so gut healthy! We recommend getting his book (through Amazon.ca) as it contains different recipes he had put together with explanation of food energetics according to classical Chinese medicine.

Ingredients

mushrooms of your choice | 1 pound

olive oil | 1 Tbsp

butter | 2 Tbsp

balsamic vinegar | 3 Tbsp

red wine (or red wine vinegar) | 1 Tbsp

mixed herbs | 1/2 tsp each if dried, more if fresh

Instructions (condensed version):

• Heat a heavy pain, add the olive oil, then the butter. Add the mushrooms, stir. Keep heat high enough to evaporate the moisture that the mushrooms give off as they cook.

• Add the balsamic vinegar and the red wine (use red wine vinegar if preferred)

• Add herbs if desired, such as rosemary and oregano. Salt is not necessary

• If the pan sauce is thin, raise heat to reduce and add another bit of butter to tighten the sauce around the mushroom

Serve as a side dish with greens and proteins such as a bean dish, fish, chicken or meat.