How to dry mushrooms and cook

Contents:

• Dry porcini mushrooms in the oven
• Selection of mushrooms for drying
• Preparation of dried mushrooms

Mushrooms - a versatile and popular product. They can cook almost all meals: excellent appetizer, salad, in which the mushrooms are well combined with other products. Liquid food due to fungi become an unforgettable pleasant aroma. And the main dishes are delicious. A good hostess always have in stock a few recipes of dishes with mushrooms, which will decorate the table for the holiday, and will be invaluable to normal weekday. In connection with our weather conditions, this protein product all year round can be found in the forest or in the garden, so the masters canned, dried and pickled mushrooms. In order to preserve their flavor and aroma, cooking enthusiasts are ready for everything.

The main method of storing this valuable product - drying.

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Dry porcini mushrooms in the oven

This process does not take a lot of time and effort. One need only follow the instructions.

• Choose only pure, whole mushrooms. They should not have flaws (rotten, spoiled worms are not suitable).
• White mushrooms good wash and clean the debris from the forest (sand, leaves, twigs). But in any case not soaked in water.
• Remove them with a mushroom wrap and pat rag kitchen towel, allowing the water to come out. Wet dried porcini mushrooms for longer.
• The bottom of the leg to remove.

Then proceed to the process of drying. Home is well suited oven, t. To. It is at all and dries quickly. So, slice the mushrooms (as shown in Figure 1) and place them on a baking sheet. Place in a preheated oven (temperature should be 60-70 ° C). The oven should be slightly open for air circulation. When drying your house will smell like mushrooms. On this scent, you will define the end of cooking. The product will look dry.

Yet there is one way. Cleaned mushrooms strung on a long string and hung up on the grid in the oven. An example is shown in Fig. 2. Further, all as in the previous embodiment. In preheated oven mesh placed with the door open and dried product.

When drying the mass of the product changes. He reduced (from 10 kg of fresh mushrooms get 1-2 kg of dried), but if it enters the water swells. After drying, the fungus becomes plastic if crumbles or breaks - then dry up.

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Selection of mushrooms for drying

To dry fit is not all mushrooms. When collecting pay attention only edible. Remember that there are false mushrooms, white and others. If you are an experienced master in this case, the only use for drying tube. It is white, chanterelles, boletus, aspen, mushrooms. They give a good moisture and absorb it when cooking dishes. In addition, other fungi during drying become bitter aftertaste and suitable only for seasoning.

It is best suited for this task, porcini mushrooms. They have a meaty texture. Some dishes can completely replace meat. With a pleasant fragrance, suitable for a variety of culinary purposes: from salads to individual dishes. In addition, they are easy to dry, for that will and oven, which is in every house, and special equipment (dryers).

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Preparation of dried mushrooms

With dried mushrooms, there are many recipes, you can use them in soups and cakes as stuffing. Before the main cooking soak them to swell and fungi increased to its original size. Use hot water for quick otmokaniya. And then boil them. First, it is desirable to drain the water, and the next you can prepare the broth of mushroom soup. When cooking aroma spreads throughout the house and like the smell of the forest, which were collected by these fungi.

For self-cooking spices and seasonings used mushroom powder, and make it because of dried white fungus. For the production of a coffee grinder to grind on the required amount of mushrooms. When grinding broken solid crust, which can spoil the dish and poorly absorbed by the body. The powder is mixed with fine salt (5-10% by weight of the powder) and spices to your taste (black, red pepper, parsley, dill and so on. D.). Salt is required. It prevents the emergence of pests and prevent caking.

Your house will be filled with a pleasant smell delicious cooked food with the addition of natural spices. Bon Appetit!