shiitake
IPA: ʃˈiaɪteɪk
noun
- A wide, brown variety of edible mushroom, Lentinula edodes.
Advertisement
Examples of "shiitake" in Sentences
- Shiitake is a type of edible mushroom.
- Shiitake is one mushroom that comes to mind.
- I added the authority and changed the family of Shiitake.
- Shiitake is not the most popular ingredient for miso soup.
- Spring will come, and another season of Shiitake will too.
- Shiitake are often dried and sold as preserved food in packages.
- Shiitake is included in the more broad definition of this family.
- Reality is being warped by a machine that resembles a shiitake mushroom.
- The beech is usually unsuitable for cultivation of the Shiitake mushroom.
- The kombu can also be used in combination with katsuobushi or hoshi shiitake.
- In the winter, Kouprie relies on locally cultivated mushrooms such as shiitake and cremini.
- While some fungal species, such as shiitake and enoki, are edible, some microscopic species can trigger numerous infections in the human body.
- There are two ways of writing "shiitake" according to the Kojien, and both have a mushroom kanji for the "take" part, so that seems rather simple.
- Traditionally used as a condiment for Peking duck and moo shu pork, it also enhances the flavor of stir-fries and umami-rich finger foods such as shiitake spring rolls.
- Medicinal mushrooms such as shiitake, maitake and reishi contain beta-glucans (complex carbohydrates) that enhance immune activity against infections and cancer and reduce allergies
- “We saw the best effects in shiitake and nameko mushrooms, while we also tested reishi mushrooms, which are not edible but are used in certain types of traditional Chinese medicine,” he said.
- Since the Kojien doesn't give a first use citation for shiitake the way it does for kawatake, my only clue for how old the word shiitake is is that the term was picked up for the name of a kabuki wig.
- The custard consists of an egg mixture flavored with soy sauce, dashi, and mirin, with numerous ingredients such as shiitake mushrooms, kamaboko, and boiled shrimp placed into a tea-cup-like container.
- Gower has written books on Japanese cooking, so it’s no surprise that he’s such a fan of the shiitake, which is often referred to as the “monarch of mushrooms” in Japan, according to “Shiitake: The Healing Mushroom” by Kenneth Jones (Healing Arts Press, 1995).