Mushroom stir fry recipe – Stir fried mushrooms with cashews, Indian spices & herbs. This mushroom fry is very simple to make yet it tastes amazingly delicious with a wonderful aroma of masala. It goes well with rice, roti or even with bread.
To make this dish first onion & tomatoes are stir fried then spiced with masala powder and chilli powder. Then the mushrooms are stir fried in the onion tomato masala.
So the dish is not very dry & goes well even with rice or roti. I sometimes also use this to make kathi rolls & sandwiches.
I make mushroom stir fry in different ways. You can also check these variations – mushroom pepper fry, Chilli mushroom & this hot garlic mushrooms
The recipe shared here is the simplest way you can make a flavorful mushroom stir fry. I have used cashews here, you can replace them with green peas, tofu or even paneer.
More Mushroom recipes,
Mushroom masala
Matar mushroom
kadai mushroom
How to make mushroom stir fry
1. Add oil to a pan and heat. Add cumin and mustard (optional).
2. When they crackle, saute ginger garlic paste until the raw smell goes off.
3. Fry finely chopped onions or onion paste evenly.
4. Stir often until they turn golden.
5. Add tomato puree or finely chopped tomatoes.
6. Saute until the raw smell goes away from the mixture.
7. Add curry leaves, garam masala, red chili powder and turmeric.
8. Saute for 1 to 2 mins on a low flame until the curry leaves smell good.
9. Add mushrooms and cashews or peas. Sprinkle salt evenly.
10. Stir fry for 2 to 3 mins on a high heat. Cover and cook on a low flame until the mushrooms are cooked. They let out lot of moisture when covered and cooked.
11. Cook until the water evaporates. Adjust salt if needed and add 1 tsp of lemon juice. This is optional.
Serve with rice or chapathi.
Recipe card
Mushroom fry
For best results follow the step-by-step photos above the recipe card
Ingredients (US cup = 240ml )
- 1 ¼ cup white button mushrooms sliced or 10 to 12
- ¼ cup green peas or cashews
- 1 onions finely chopped
- 1 tomato finely chopped
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 green chili slit (optional)
- 1 to 2 sprigs curry leaves
- ¼ tsp mustard (optional)
- ½ tsp cumin
- 2 to 3 tbsps Oil
- ¾ tsp red chili powder
- 1 Pinch turmeric
- 1 tsp garam masala or meat masala (readymade is ok)
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp lemon juice optional
Instructions
- Chop onions, slit green chilies. Soak cashews for 15 minutes or rinse green peas, drain them and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin, mustard, allow them to splutter. Fry ginger garlic paste for 2 mins.
- Add onions and fry them evenly till they brown, not burnt. While the onions fry, you can chop the mushrooms.
- Next add tomato and saute until the moisture dries up and the raw smell goes off.
- Add chili powder, garam masala, curry leaves and turmeric. Saute until the raw smell has gone, just for a minute.
- Add chopped mushrooms, cashews and salt. Stir fry on a medium high flame till you begin to get an aroma of mushrooms. This takes 2 mins.
- Cover and cook on a low flame till the mushrooms are cooked, giving a good stir in between. Do not overcook as mushrooms tend to become soggy very fast. Add lemon juice if desired.
- Serve mushroom fry with rice and ghee or chapathi.
Alternative quantities provided in the recipe card are for 1x only, original recipe.
For best results follow my detailed step-by-step photo instructions and tips above the recipe card.
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Tried hands at many of your recepie. Loved your snaps of dishes. They look beautiful. Could u post some quick-make dishes for lonesome people. Thanks
Glad to know. Thank you. You can find more recipes on this link
I tried it today.Came out to be extremely tasty
Thanks Sindhu
Hi. Can we do this with oyster mushroom? Hehe…
Hi,
I haven’t tried it but it should work
Tried this today and it was so delicious. Loved the addition of cashews to the mushrooms which makes it a good combination that worked really well.
Hello Winnie
Glad to know you liked the combo. Thank you
Hi to you swasthi ji, I’m from South Africa an I often try to get new ideas to change my cooking style. I have tried your mushroom masala as well as the aloo jeera both dishes were spot-on delicious..thank you for your advice and inspiration.
Hi Yvonne,
Glad to know you! You are most welcome! Glad you like the recipes. Thank you!
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Hi swasthi..
is there any specific time to soak cashews
Hi Kalpana,
Just soak them for 15 mins
Thank you Swasthi.. it came out yummy
Hi swasthi,today I tried this mushroom curry and it turned out awesome..thanks for such a detailed note abt curry and the way to clean the mushrooms….u are awesome cook …. Today I got many appreciations for this mushroom curry….
Hi chandana
You are welcome. thanks for trying. Glad to know it turned out good.
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hi swathi,
its me sharmila.. the receipe of mushroom curry is very useful.. when i tried it comes out good with yummy taste.. thank you 🙂
Hi Sharmila
You are welcome
Happy to know it came out good. Thanks for trying
Nice recipes… Thanks for all these….
Welcome Barnali
Thanks for sharing this recipe. I tried this for the first time. Everyone like it . yummy!!! :).
Got some cooking appreciation at home. Thats cool. Thanks to you! 🙂
Welcome Priya
Glad to know you all liked it and you got appreciations too. Have a wonderful week end. Thanks for sharing
Very special recipe. Thanks
Welcome Bhavana
Glad to know you liked it. Thank you
Superrrrrrrr.
Thank you
Turned out perfect!
Thanks Ritu,
Was amazing, made it for dinner guests n it won accolades.
Hi Ritu,
Iam so glad you all liked it.
Thank you
yum, this turned out so good. can you also share a gravy recipe for mushroom
That's a nice one..looks very yum
this looks fabulous… mouth watering…
Perfect with chapathis..tempting
Mushroom has always been my favorite.. This curry looks delicious. <br />Thanks for the sharing the steps to clean the mushroom. :)<br /><br />
Hi Swasthi, your mushroom curry look very inviting. Love the combination with cashew nut. Thanks for sharing your delicious recipe.<br /><br />Have a nice week ahead,regards.
as usual a perfect recipe from you 🙂 liked your first click swasthi.. and particularly the foreground which makes it more attractive..