How much mushrooms to boil

Honey mushrooms are mushrooms that are very popular; not many mushrooms can boast of such widespread use in cooking. Along with boletus or porcini mushrooms, mushrooms are actively harvested by housewives for future use for the winter period. Due to their excellent taste and excellent physical characteristics, they are suitable both for preparing first courses and for pickling or pickling. But despite their popularity, these mushrooms are a rather dangerous product and it is important to know exactly how much to cook mushrooms before use, so that indigestion or more serious troubles does not follow.

How do they get on the table

If the hostess wants to please her household with a delicious lunch of these mushrooms, then there are two options for the appearance. The first of them - the easiest and safest - is to buy a product in a supermarket. The modern industry is engaged in the industrial production of any demanded goods, including mushrooms. In addition, it will be safest to buy them in the store, due to the fact that the mushroom is a dangerous mushroom and has poisonous twin brothers, the store product excludes their appearance among the product.

The second way is to do it yourself. This should only be done by experienced mushroom pickers who know exactly how to distinguish the correct mushroom from a poisonous fellow, often growing on one stump. Harvesting takes place at the end of August and continues until the end of October, depending on the region of growth. These mushrooms are very easy to collect, they grow in large families on old stumps, and sometimes on living trees. Having found one mushroom tree, you can collect the required amount of product in one place. At the same time, returning here the next year, the mushroom picker will also find a hotbed.

Advice! In the case when the mushrooms are harvested, but there are doubts about their quality, it is worth throwing half of the onion into a pot of water, in which the product is boiled for the first time. If there are poisonous representatives in the pan, the onion will turn blue.

Preparation

After harvesting, it is important to subject the mushrooms to proper heat treatment. It depends on how safe the use of the dish is. In addition to the high content of nutrients, protein and trace elements, honey mushrooms have the ability to absorb heavy compounds and other harmful substances from the environment. In this regard, it is strongly discouraged to collect the product that grows in the city or close to the roadway.

You need to cook honey mushrooms correctly in two stages. At the first stage, the product is poured with water and put on fire, after a while, the water will begin to boil, it is important to remove the foam and boil the mushrooms for five minutes. After this time, it is necessary to change the water. The old drain must be poured fresh and spices and spices added to it to taste. At the second stage, honey mushrooms should be cooked for 20-25 minutes until the product completely settles to the bottom of the pan.

The boiled product should be thrown into a colander and the excess liquid should be drained. If you plan to cook the first course, then the second water in which the honey mushroom was cooked can be used as a broth.

Supermarkets sell frozen mushrooms, they are well suited for frying or making soups. But before preparing the main course, they also need to be boiled. Frozen mushrooms should be boiled for 20-25 minutes, while preliminary boiling can be skipped. Whether or not to defrost the product before boiling is decided by the hostess, depending on the situation. If time permits, then you can let the mushrooms thaw, and if there is no time to wait, then the frozen mushrooms can be cooked immediately.

Cooking dried mushrooms

Honey mushrooms, due to their dense structure, are often harvested in winter by drying. When dried, they hold their shape well and retain their aroma. Before drying, raw mushrooms are cleaned of debris, soil and darkening on the legs or cap, after which they are subjected to the drying process.

In order to prepare something from dried mushrooms, they must first be soaked in water for 4-12 hours so that the mushrooms are saturated with moisture and return to their original shape. After that, boil the mushrooms, according to the principle of boiling a fresh product: in two waters for a total of 30-35 minutes.

Pickled mushrooms have an amazing taste and will be an excellent snack in winter; dense little mushrooms that do not contain flaws are selected for pickling. Caviar can be made from large overgrown mushrooms. But whatever the preparation, honey mushrooms must be pre-cooked.