Lion's Mane - Fresh 500g

When fresh mushrooms are marked "Sold Out", there are none available for our next Wednesday delivery run. You can still contact us to order them for a different date.

We currently deliver for free between Yarloop, Bunbury and Busselton on Wednesday afternoons. We can also deliver to Dunsborough, Yallingup and Margaret River areas, typically for a $7 fee. Pickup can be arranged from our farm gate or from our markets in Boyanup and Serpentine-Jarrahdale. We cannot post fresh mushrooms.

Lion’s Mane is slightly sweet and mildly meaty, almost like lobster or crab. It is absorbent and spongy yet firm and meaty, holding its texture well for cooking. It pulls apart like chicken or can be cut into 1-2cm thick “steaks” to fry flat in a pan. A trick for the best flavour and texture when frying is to first “dry fry” in its own juices with no butter/oil using a low heat. Fry for a few minutes on one side until light golden brown, add salt to help release moisture and then flip it with tongs. It doesn’t stick to the pan too much if you move it around shortly after beginning. Once light golden brown on both sides, increase the heat to medium and add plenty of butter, plus any desired seasoning such as garlic/onion/cumin seeds to continue frying until properly browned on both sides.

A squeeze of lemon for serving compliments the flavour beautifully. They can really be treated like seafood for seasoning. Sweet chilli sauce doesn’t go astray. Lion’s Mane is excellent in soups and will soak up anything it is cooked with. It can be marinated like meat, made into “pulled pork” or battered for crispy mushroom “fried chicken” pieces or nuggets which you can find detailed recipes for online.

Lion’s Mane has a longer fridge life than most gourmet mushrooms, lasting 2-3 weeks and sometimes longer. It will yellow over time but remain edible. We don't recommend washing our mushrooms before cooking them - they are always clean and pesticides are never used in our grow rooms. They are grown using W.A. Eucalyptus, barley and rain water.

Eating whole, fresh Lion’s Mane is the best way to enjoy its health benefits but it should not be consumed raw. Thorough cooking breaks down the tough cell walls and allows our bodies to digest them properly. Mushrooms are amazing little chemical factories which produce a staggering variety of compounds which work in harmony to produce their effects and wholefoods are superior. Alcohol extraction processes are not necessary, particularly for culinary mushrooms like Lion’s Mane. They have also been consumed as tea for thousands of years.

You can find many scientific studies and YouTube videos about the chemical compounds produced by Lion's Mane mushrooms and their potential effects but due to Food Standards regulations, we can't include this information on our website. They contain many nutrients such as Potassium, Zinc, Manganese, Selenium, Thiamine (B1), Riboflavin (B2) and Niacin (B3).