Mushrooms

🇮🇹Alba, Italy

Alba White Truffle

Tartufo bianco

The Piedmontese white truffle (Tuber magnatum), auctioned by weight in Alba each autumn and shaved raw over tajarin and risotto.

🇪🇸Aragon, Spain

Aragonese Black Truffle

Trufa negra de Aragón

Trufa negra de Aragón is an Aragonese black truffle from Teruel, prized for its dense aroma and marbled interior.

🇮🇹Italy

Black summer truffle

Black summer truffle is a named Italian mushroom from Italy, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇭🇷Istria, Croatia

Black Truffle

Crni tartuf

More versatile truffle with earthy, nutty flavor that intensifies when heated, found in Istria, available year-round for some varieties.

🇪🇪Estonia

Chanterelles

Kukeseened

Golden chanterelle mushrooms, the most popular wild mushroom in Estonia, used in creamy sauces and dishes.

🇦🇹Austria

Chanterelles with Egg

Eierschwammerl mit Ei

Eierschwammerl with egg folds sautéed chanterelles into softly set eggs with butter, pepper and parsley.

🇫🇷Burgundy, France

Croûte aux morilles

Croûte aux morilles is toasted bread covered with morels in cream sauce, served hot as a rich mushroom dish.

🇨🇱Chile

Digüeñes

Spring mushrooms from oak trees, used in salads and stews, a rare and prized Chilean wild food, earthy and fresh.

🇭🇹Northern Haiti, Haiti

Djon Djon

Tiny black mushrooms that grow only in a few parts of northern Haiti, dried and soaked to make a black cooking liquor.

🇫🇮Finland

Funnel Chanterelle

Suppilovahvero

Popular wild mushroom with funnel-shaped cap, yellow-brown color, grows in mossy spruce forests, harvested September through snowfall.

🇭🇺Hungary

Gombapaprikas

Gombapaprikás

Vegetarian mushroom paprikash.

🇲🇽Mexico

Hongos a la mexicana (Mexican-Style Mushrooms)

Wild mushrooms sautéed with tomato, onion, and chiles.

🇲🇽Mexico

Huitlacoche

Corn smut, the prized dark fungus of maize, cooked into quesadillas, soups, and sauces.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Ingudai Tibs

እንጉዳይ ጥብስ

Sautéed mushrooms cooked in niter kibbeh with onions, jalapeños, rosemary and warm spices — the vegetarian 'tibs' so good even meat lovers ask for seconds. A modern darling of Ethiopian fasting cuisine.

🇭🇷Istria, Croatia

Istrian White Truffle

Istarski bijeli tartuf

In Istria, Istrian White Truffle is aromatic seasonal Istrian white truffle shaved over food.

🇧🇹Bumthang, Bhutan

Matsutake

སངས་རྒྱས་ཤ་མུ།

Matsutake gathered in the pine forests around Ura and Genekha for a few weeks in late summer, most of it exported to Japan.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Mushroom Scramble

Smaženice

Forest mushrooms scrambled with onion and egg, a prized forager's dish.

🇬🇪Georgia

Mushrooms in a Clay Pan

Სოკო კეცზე

Whole mushroom caps filled with sulguni and baked gill-up in a clay pan until the cheese bubbles over the edges.

🇪🇪Estonia

Porcini

Herkkutatti

Wild porcini mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized in Finnish cuisine for its rich nutty flavor and firm texture.

🇦🇩Andorra

Pork-Stuffed Morel Mushrooms

Moixernons farcits de porc

Pork-stuffed morel mushrooms; morels are difficult to find and highly prized for their aroma and flavor; morel mushrooms stuffed with pork and cooked; a delicacy of the Pyrenean kitchen; reflects the tradition of mushroom foraging; found at traditional restaurants in mushroom season; the stuffed morels of Andorra; a rare and prized dish.

🇫🇷Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Périgord Black Truffle

Truffe noire du Périgord

The winter black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) of Périgord, sold at the Lalbenque and Richerenches markets and prized for its earthy aroma.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Rahmschwammerl

Rahmschwammerl sautés wild mushrooms with onion and herbs, then folds them into cream, usually with bread dumplings.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Saffron Milk Caps

Raudonikės

Orange-latex mushrooms traditionally pickled in brine and eaten with sour cream.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Samaroq

سماروق

Wild mushrooms cooked with onion, tomato and coriander, gathered in spring in the northern provinces.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Shamu Datshi

ཤ་མུ་དར་ཚིལ།

Mushrooms — oyster, button or wild — cooked in cheese sauce with chilli and spring onion.

🇰🇷South Korea

Stir-Fried Mushrooms

버섯볶음

Assorted mushrooms (shiitake, oyster, enoki) stir-fried with vegetables in a savory soy-based sauce, a popular banchan and vegetarian dish.

🇮🇹Italy

Tartufo Nero Pregiato

Italian black truffle, foraged in winter in Umbria and Le Marche. Milder than white truffle, shaved over pasta and meat.

🇺🇦Polissya, Ukraine

Zrazy

Зрази

Zrazy are Ukrainian formed or rolled meat patties with a savoury filling, browned and served hot.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Zubaidi desert truffles

فقع

Zubaidi desert truffles, wild fungi gathered after spring rains in the Arabian desert.