Spring time delicacy: whole spinach with Shiitake

Ingredients (1 portion)

200g young whole spinach,

7 Shiitake mushrooms,

2 cloves of garlic,

1 spoon soya sauce

2 spoons cooking oil

1/2 tea spoon sesame oil

1 tea spoon sesame

salt and pepper

Method

1 Cut the garlic into pieces. wash the spinaches with water , leave them in whole and don’t need to cut the spinaches if they are not to large for the pan.

2 Heat 2 spoons of cooking oil in a pan and add the garlic.

3 Put the shiitake mushrooms up-side-down in the pan and fry with low- middle heat for 2 minutes untill they turned soft.

4 Add 1 spoon of soya sauce in the pan and the whole spinaches.

5 Stir till the spinaches turn soft and season with salt, pepper, sesame oil and sesame.

6 Serve with rice.

Tips

Spinaches shrink a lot when cooked. The best timing for seasoning is at the end. Otherwise it is often over salted. Don’t over cook the spinaches.