Two ways to make dried honey mushrooms

"Dried honey mushrooms" usually refers to two different food forms: one is "preserved mushrooms" in a dried state (traditional snacks), and the other is "honey oyster mushrooms that are cooked into dishes and collected in dried sauce" (home-cooked dishes). Here's a detailed explanation of both approaches, depending on your specific needs:

1. Traditional craft: dried mushroom preserves
This is a traditional flavor snack made from mushrooms. The finished product has high sugar content, dense texture, is not sticky, and can be stored for a long time.

Material selection and processing‌: Select mushrooms with full mushroom shapes (such as Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, etc.), wash them and slice them into slices, and use sodium metabisulfite solution to protect the color or soak in salt water to increase the hardness.
Boiling and pickling‌: Put the mushroom slices into high-concentration sugar liquid, blanche and boil them (the sugar content reaches more than 40%), and then immerse them in 70% sugar liquid and pickle them for 20 to 24 hours, so that the sugar content reaches more than 55%.
Dried finished product‌: Drain the sugar liquid from the pickled mushroom slices, and dry them at 65~70℃ for 20~24 hours until the mushroom slices are no longer sticky to your hands, and you can make dry preserves.
2. Home-cooked dishes: Honey-glazed king oyster mushrooms (dried version)
This is a sweet and delicious quick dish. It is fried so that the sauce is completely coated and dried on the surface of the mushrooms, giving it a texture similar to "dry roasting".

Ingredients preparation‌: Wash the king oyster mushrooms and cut into 1cm thick slices, use the tip of a knife to score lines for flavor; prepare the sauce (1 spoon of honey, 1 spoon of cooking wine, half a spoon of sesame oil, a little soy sauce, salt and pepper).
Marinate for flavor‌: Pour the sauce evenly over the king oyster mushrooms, marinate for about 15 minutes, and sprinkle with an appropriate amount of chopped herbs.
Fry to reduce the juice‌: Heat a pan over medium-low heat, add king oyster mushrooms and fry until cooked. The mushrooms will release water during the process, so there is no need to add additional water. You need to turn it over frequently to keep it evenly heated until the sauce is completely dry and wrapped around the mushrooms.
If you want to make the first kind of "snack preserves", the process is more complicated and time-consuming; if you want to make "home-style stir-fries", the second method can be done in just 15 minutes, and the taste is sweet, crisp and tender.