Keep refrigerated in porous paper bags. They add a meaty flavor and texture to stir-frys, pastas, soups, entrees and side dishes. Discarded stems can be used to flavor stocks. Fluted and graceful, oyster mushrooms range in color from soft brown to gray. They are best if cooked.
Oyster mushrooms have a delicate, mild flavor and velvety texture.
Delicate flavor is excellent in chicken, veal, pork and seafood dishes. Sauteing with butter and onions brings out full flavor. Add to soups and sauces. Fragile, flower-like with long, slender stems and tiny caps, enoki mushrooms grow in small clusters. They have a mild, light flavor with a slight crunch.