Who doesn’t love shiitake bacon?! We’re into it! Sure, it’s easy to select from the abundant variety of prepared, plant-based meat products at the grocery store, but when you can make something similar at home with whole food ingredients using simple techniques that also allow you to flex your cooking muscles, it’s always a wicked smaht choice.

Here we’ve karate-chopped some portobellos into 1/4-inch slices, then marinated them a while in a salty, smoky marinade to infuse flavor into every nook and cranny. Then we crisped them up in a hot cast-iron pan to create this wicked easy plant pusher style bacon! You can also use shiitakes, eggplant or tempeh here … they all create a flavorful and crispy plant bacon that you can throw onto sandwiches, use as toppings on soup or in casseroles, or anything that loves a crispy smokiness added to it.