Portabella mushrooms are so widely cultivated that you can find them fresh almost anywhere. Because they have less water weight usually than the more common 'white mushrooms' or 'brown mushrooms' they often are actually less expensive than those even more common mushrooms. Remember - when you buy a fresh mushroom which is heavy what is giving it that heavy feeling is the water in it. You'll often find that what seemed like a great price, when you cook them mushrooms down and the water come out of them, wasn't such a great price after all.
Portabella (Portabello) Mushrooms
Jumbo Prawns & Mushrooms | Portabella Mushrooms
While perhaps not quite at the summit of they pyramid of supreme health benefits of mushrooms, portabella mushrooms (portabello mushrooms) are still a great mushroom and have lots of health benefits when included in your wokked jumbo prawn recipes. You…
Portabella Mushrooms | Selecting Your Portabella
Portabella Mushrooms | How to select a Portabella Mushroom
Preparing Portabellas for the Jumbo Prawn Recipes
We like to have our portabellas in big enough pieces we can appreciate them in their own right, but not so huge that they dominate the jumbo prawns too much.
We'll generally slice our portabellas to be about 1/4 inch (< 1 cm) thick and perhaps up to 1…