Pheasant Back / Dryad Saddle Recipes
The pheasant back mushroom or dryad saddle (Cerioporus squamosus) is a common mushroom that infects and decomposes elm and box elder trees. If you hunt morels you're likely to see them. Finding them is easy, finding delicious ones is more tricky.
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For tips on finding the best mushrooms for the table see my guide to pheasant backs below.
General Cooking
Soup is one of the best things you can make with these, but they can also be sauteed, cooked and frozen, dried or pickled. Older mushrooms can be made into mushroom broth.
Dryad Saddle / Pheasant Back Broth
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Classic Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms
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Rich and Creamy Mushroom Dip
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Mushroom Tempura
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Vegan Mushroom Barbacoa
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Rainbow Trout with Fiddleheads and Pheasant Backs
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Pheasant Back-Spring Vegetable Soup
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White Wine Pheasant Backs
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Fish Sauce-Pickled Enoki Mushrooms
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Hot and Sour Soup with Wood Ear Mushrooms
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Pheasant Back Fermented Shoyu
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Mushroom Meatball Soup with Greens
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Braised Burdock and Wild Mushrooms
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Basic Dryad Saddle / Pheasant Back Broth
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Wild Shoot Salad with Dryad Saddles and Wild Mint
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Nettle Pancakes with Goat Cheese (Nokkosletut)
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Dryad Saddles with Soy and Scallions
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How to Freeze Wild Mushrooms
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Coral Mushrooms in Broth with Hominy and Mitsuba
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Grouse And Wild Rice Casserole with Mushrooms
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Pheasant Back Mushroom Pickles
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Sauteed Asparagus and Mushrooms
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Dryad Saddle Relish
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Dryad Saddle Ramen
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Dryad's Saddle or Pheasant Back Mushroom
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Pheasant Back Mushroom Frittata with Mint
