Vegan Chicharon
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Vegan Chicharon is simple to make and fun to eat as snack or garnish on your favorite dish.
Serves: 3
Ingredients
- 2 pieces dried white fungus (see note below)
- pinch of salt
- pinch of vegetable broth powder (optional)
- drizzle of oil
Instructions
- Soak white fungus in a bowl of water for 1-2 minutes to reconstitute itself.
- Remove from water. Shake and pat dry with kitchen cloth. Shred in pieces using your hands.
- Air dry for about 30 minutes. Or dry in the oven by putting it in its lowest setting then turning it off once it's ready. Place white fungus in the oven to dry (about 15 - 20 minutes). Remember to turn off the oven before placing the white fungus. You just want a warm environment to speed up the drying process.
- Once the white fungus is dry, remove from oven and preheat oven to 400 F.
- Drizzle oil and sprinkle salt and vegetable broth powder. Toss to evenly coat seasonings.
- Once oven is ready, bake white fungus for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve as snack or garnish.
Notes
You could find snow fungus at most Asian grocery stores.
Aside from baking, you could also fry the snow fungus. The result will be crunchier but more fattening (because it gets really greasy).
You could find vegetable broth powder at most Asian grocery stores but you could also skip it and just use salt.
If making this for a group of people, simply multiply the recipe according to your guest headcount.
Aside from baking, you could also fry the snow fungus. The result will be crunchier but more fattening (because it gets really greasy).
You could find vegetable broth powder at most Asian grocery stores but you could also skip it and just use salt.
If making this for a group of people, simply multiply the recipe according to your guest headcount.
Recipe by ASTIG Vegan at https://www.astigvegan.com/vegan-chicharon/