Portabella mushrooms are so widely cultivated that you can find them fresh almost anywhere. Typically they cost more per pound than the cheapest mushrooms, but 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.
Easy Wok Recipes | Portabella (Portabello) Mushrooms
Wok Recipes & 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 jumbo shrimp and prawn wok…
Preparing Portabellas for the Wok Recipes
For our wok recipes, we like to have our portabella mushrooms in big enough pieces such that we can appreciate them in their own right, but not so huge that they dominate the jumbo shrimp and other ingredients too much.
We'll generally slice our…
Portabella Mushrooms | Selecting Your Portabella
Portabella Mushrooms | How to select a Portabella Mushroom