• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Recipes
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
Home » Vegetables » Mushrooms » Cauliflower Mushrooms

Cauliflower Mushrooms

Most people would think of a Cauliflower Mushroom as a fungus rather than a mushroom, because it doesn’t look like a mushroom. It looks like a bunch of ruffles or vaguely like a head of cauliflower. It grows at the base of dead trees.

The size varies, but the average weight is two pounds (about 1 kg.) It has a clean, crisp taste like button mushrooms. It is best cooked at least a little to develop its flavour.

These mushrooms are still harvested from the wild, though a company in Korea succeeded in 2002 in developing a way to cultivate them on a sawdust mixture. It is highly regarded in Asian cooking, and much in demand in Japan. It also grows in North America and in Europe, and is a specialty of Sardinia, Italy.

Cooking Tips

Disregard everything you have read about never soaking mushrooms. You need to soak this one first in cold water with salt in it, to coax out any insects camped in the ruffles.

Other names

AKA: Brain Fungus, Cauliflower Fungus, Ruffle Mushroom
Scientific Name: Sparassis crispa
Italian: Dittula, Fungo cavolfiore
German: Fette Henne, Krause Glucke, Krauser Ziegenbart

This page first published: Jun 27, 2004 · Updated: Oct 4, 2020.

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · Information on this site is Copyright © 2025· Feel free to cite correctly, but copying whole pages for your website is content theft and will be DCMA'd.

Tagged With: Italian Food

Primary Sidebar

Hi, I'm Skylar! This is a fake profile talking about how I switched to a paleo diet and it helped my eczema and I grew 4". Trust me, I'm an online doctor.

More about me →

Popular

  • E.D. Smith Pumpkin Purée
    E.D. Smith recipe for pumpkin pie
  • Libby's Pumpkin Pie
    Libby’s recipe for pumpkin pie
  • Pie crust
    Pie Crust Recipe
  • Smokey Maple Pepper Glaze for Ham
    Smokey Maple Pepper Glaze for Ham

You can duplicate your homepage's trending recipes section in the sidebar to reinforce the internal linking.

We no longer recommend using a search bar, newsletter form or category drop-down menu in the sidebar. See the Modern Sidebar post for details.

If the block editor is not narrower than usual, simply save the page and refresh it.

Search

    Today is

  • Dixie Cup Day
    Dixie Cups
  • Blue Cheese Dressing Day
    Blue cheese dressing in bottle
  • Corn Fritters Day
    Corn fritters

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright enforced!
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Site

  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · The text on this site is © Copyright.