Oyster mushrooms in anise sauce.

200g oyster mushrooms

2 onions

2 cloves garlic

some leaves radicchio

rice

soy sauce

anise seed

salt

pepper

corn starch

veggie broth

olive oil

fresh mint

Cook the rice in salted water. Fry oyster mushrooms with one finely cut onion and smashed garlic in 1 tsp olive oil. Cut radicchio in thin stripes and add at the end when the mushrooms start to get darker golden brown.

Bring 200ml water to the boil, add some veggie broth, soy sauce and 1 tsp anise seed.

Mix 2 tsp corn starch with some cold water and stir in the cooking water. Lower the heat and keep stirring until the sauce starts to thicken a bit. Turn off the heat.

Mix cooked rice with the second finely cut onion and some soy sauce.

Serve mushrooms with the sauce and rice and sprinkle with some fresh mint.

Great flavours from hearty (mushrooms) to bitter (radicchio) and this anise thing which fits pretty well. If you're afraid of the anise try a just a few seeds first and not a whole teaspoon. But it's really worth a try!