I wrote this recipe as I was thinking about those fall and winter months when all I want is a quick, leftover grain-based meal to whip up and impress. This meal comes together quickly and is deeply satisfying. Of course, you can add your favorite choice of greens, grains, and any other toppings!
Recipe information
Yield
Serves 2 as large bowls, or 4 as a side dish
Ingredients
Salad:
Creamy Miso-Tahini Dressing:
Preparation
Step 1
In a large sauté pan, warm the sesame oil or extra-virgin olive oil over medium heat. Add the mushrooms and sauté until lightly golden, 3 to 4 minutes.
Step 2
Add the tamari and sauté for 2 minutes more. Deglaze the pan with the mirin to release the bits from the bottom of the pan. Turn off heat.
Step 3
In a large bowl, whisk together the ingredients for the dressing. Using a spatula, stir in the grains and fully coat. Add the mushrooms and 3 cups of the greens, and gently fold to coat well with the dressing. Top with the avocado, reserved greens, and gomashio.
Gomasio, aka Japanese sesame salt, can be purchased in the Asian spice section of some grocery stores and online at Amazon.com
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Reviews (10)
Back to Topi halved the recipe and only used 1 cup of rice. totally worked out. i didn’t use gomoshio, just sprinkled just sesame seeds on top, and that also worked out just fine. this is a good recipe to use up mushrooms, but it’s nothing stellar. happy to make it again. very healthy and clean food.
sadie sonic
brooklyn, ny
1/24/2022
I love this recipe!
camelia5679
Boston, MA
2/8/2020
I think your nutrition info is off: 316 grams carbs per serving? Two cups of brown rice or quinoa are about 88 g carb
Anonymous
UT
1/3/2020
Okay, I have not tried this yet but my family is going to love it, so 4 forks it is. Let's talk nutrition info and some basic food group math. First, a cup of cooked whole grain, be it brown rice, quinoa, farro, whatever, runs between, say, 150 & 250 calories. You can google calories of cooked whole grains if you need a specific count, very simple. Oil, whether olive, peanut, or about 70 calories per 1/2 tablespoon, 1/4 of the 2 tablespoons in this recipe. Any nut or seed butter...peanut, almond, cashew, or sesame seed [=tahini] runs about 85 calories per tablespoon so 3/4 of a T. as here for each of 4 servings of tahini is maybe 60? The mushrooms, greens, soy sauce and mirin in these amounts have very few calories, throw in a max of maybe another 100 per serving for the rest of the stuff together. I'm guessing a whole avocado at 200 calories depending on the size and type, so throw in another 50 calories per 4 servings. Ok! Let's count this up... very rough estimate, 200+70+60+100+50=...480! For 4 servings at 480 calories each I end up at, hm, 1920! Since the nutrition info says 1894 calories, you can quickly see the logical answer to any math question here asked below....Easy-peasy. I don't know why this site gives it's info for whole recipes, but I have noticed they do this quite often and it's a little disconcerting at first glance. Still, a really basic knowledge of calorie counts of food groups is a pretty fast and easy tip off if it is the whole recipe or 1/4 of it. Calories aren't everything, but basic food group estimates are a pretty easy knowledge-set to acquire, and that info for guestimating is useful for health maintenance for life! Hope this process description helps someone along.
tjd_talk21283
New England, USA
6/12/2019
I have to give this 4 forks. I made the recipe whole and found the proportions between ingredients great. It makes as much as is obvious, 4 cups of grains plus the cooked down mushrooms. That is how ever many servings you choose. I used freekeh and spinach. For mushrooms I used 1/3rd Bunashimeji, 2/3rd Shiitake, and instead of gomashio I used furikake and shichimi togarashi on top, so a little spiciness with that. I cooked down the mushrooms quite a bit more than the picture shows and they are all mixed in with the grain. I did top with some greens and avocado as described. This dish is really delicious. I love it.
acstichter6881
Tempe, AZ
8/16/2018
I, too, question the nutrition info; if correct, I’ll not tempt myself to try it. Can you please advise your reader base on this? I hope so; thanks!
lewoolcott
Marshall, VA
4/15/2018
Wait... 1904 calories a serving or the whole batch?
barbara.bernheim2962
Billings
4/10/2018
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