Any mushroom picker with even a little experience in 'quiet hunting' can say that mushrooms are the most profitable mushrooms. Finding just one fallen tree or rotten stump with these small fruiting bodies, you can collect more than one bucket of harvest.
Honey mushrooms, especially the autumn species, are high in protein and can be used as a meat alternative. They are high in fiber, virtually no fat and low in calories. It is these properties that make honey mushrooms an extremely valuable product. These fruiting bodies have excellent taste.
Fried mushrooms are considered especially tasty and popular. Appetizing wild mushrooms can be a great snack or a complete meal that will appeal to all mushroom lovers. However, the question arises: how to prepare fresh mushrooms for frying, and what procedures to carry out with them?
How to properly prepare fresh mushrooms for frying?
It should be noted that fried honey mushrooms are a very popular dish not only in our cuisine, but also in European countries. They are used to prepare delicious, nutritious and healthy food. But so that eating a mushroom dish is not overshadowed by poisoning, you need to properly pre-process it. When collecting honey agarics, you need to be sure of the edibility of the mushroom that you have in your hands. If in doubt, you should not take the fruiting body into your basket. It is especially not worth collecting honey mushrooms in areas where industrial enterprises are located. This factor greatly affects the edibility of any mushrooms and makes them poisonous.
How to process honey mushrooms after harvest and prepare for frying? First, they need to be thoroughly cleaned of forest debris: the remnants of grass, foliage, needles and earth. It is only necessary to rinse honey mushrooms if you will not freeze them fresh or dry them. The washing process can be carried out in standing water, for example, in a bucket, or you can put the mushrooms in batches in a colander and wash under the tap with cold water. Be sure to distribute the fruit bodies by size: it is better to marinate small mushrooms, to put large mushrooms on salting or caviar, or you can simply fry them.
How to prepare honey mushrooms for frying so as not to spoil the taste of the dish in the future? An obligatory procedure is cutting off the lower part of the stem of the mushroom. If you did not do this in the forest, then the corresponding process must be carried out at home after collection. Some cut off only the tip of the leg, and some cut them off completely, because they have some stiffness. However, in no case throw away the legs: they are used to prepare deliciously delicious mushroom caviar. Only after going through the entire purification process, and knowing how to properly prepare mushrooms for frying, you can proceed with confidence with it.
How can you prepare mushrooms for the winter for frying?
After harvesting, mushrooms are prepared for the winter in different ways. How can honey mushrooms be prepared for the winter for frying by freezing fresh? In this case, as mentioned above, it is not recommended to wash mushrooms, all the more so to soak them in water for a long time. On contact with water, lamellar fungi absorb it and swell. Then, when frozen fresh, their aesthetic appearance deteriorates, and with further frying, they lose their taste and 'spread out'. To cook fresh mushrooms for the winter in frozen form, they need to be cleaned of dirt, cut off part of the leg and wipe each cap of the mushroom with a damp kitchen sponge. Then put in food containers or put in plastic bags and put in the freezer.
Beginning housewives are also interested in autumn mushrooms: how to cook these fruiting bodies for frying, which are considered the most common in our territory? Note that the same primary processing is carried out before frying. Obligatory cleaning and rinsing under a cold tap. The mushrooms are given time to drain, put them on a kitchen towel to dry. Only then can you start the frying process.
Sometimes some types of mushrooms can and even need to be soaked. This applies to overgrown autumn mushrooms and mushrooms of large sizes. How to cook mushrooms for frying in this case? Before the process itself, it is recommended to soak the overgrown fruit bodies in water with the addition of a small amount of vinegar for 30-40 minutes. Then the insects in the plates and their larvae will surely float to the surface of the water, and all the sand and earth will come out of the honey agaric and settle to the bottom. Next, the mushrooms are allowed to drain and dry, and then fried.
How to cook fresh mushrooms for frying?
Very often, many culinary specialists boil honey mushrooms before frying. How to cook fresh mushrooms for frying and how long does it take? After initial processing, mushrooms must be filled with water so that it completely covers them. Cook honey mushrooms for 20-25 minutes with the addition of salt (for 1 kg of mushrooms, take 1 tbsp. L. Salt without top). During cooking, a foam forms on the surface of the mushrooms, which must be constantly removed. Further, the mushrooms are dipped in a colander and drain from excess liquid.
Knowing how to properly boil honey mushrooms for frying, you will do everything to make your dish delicious in taste and does not lose its nutritional properties. After the process of boiling and discarding in a colander, honey mushrooms should be laid out on paper towels so that they dry. If mushrooms are different in size, then after drying, they are cut into pieces so that the frying of the fruit bodies is uniform.
How to properly boil honey mushrooms for frying
How to boil honey mushrooms for frying, then freeze them? In this case, after boiling in salted water (20 minutes), the mushrooms are dried for a long time on a kitchen towel so that there is no excess liquid when frozen. Several times honey mushrooms are transferred from a wet towel to a dry one, since moisture forms ice during freezing and takes up a lot of space in the refrigerator. After completely drying, the mushrooms are distributed on a plastic tray in 1 layer and proceed to freezing.
We offer you to watch a visual video on how to cook mushrooms for frying. It will help you familiarize yourself in more detail with the preparation of mushrooms for their further preparation:
