How to rehydrate your dried mushrooms

Rehydrating your mushrooms is super easy - just pour room temperature water over them and leave them to sit for 1-2 hours.

Why not boiling water? Well, boiling water does rehydrate them quicker, but it also makes them soggier, and more of the flavour ends up in the soaking liquid than in the mushrooms. Of course, if you're making a Phô or something similar, you could just throw them directly into the broth, or (a favourite of ours) use the soaking liquid as the base of your broth for double mushroom goodness.