How to freeze porcini mushrooms for the winter

How to freeze porcini mushrooms for the winter? First you need to get them at any cost. Find in the woods, beg for parents, take away from a friend. Every way will fit, because the dishes from porcini mushrooms are magical. But sometimes in winter you want not only pickled or salted, but also fresh Borovichkov.

In the store you can only buy fresh oyster mushrooms and champignons in the winter, for it is not the season. In the market at grandmothers the situation is similar. Sometimes it sells white, but they are already pickled or salted. And who knows where these mushrooms were collected? How are they treated? To be sure that the bolettes will not harm you or your household - we will harvest it yourself.

Freezing ceps is a simple matter, does not require special costs or great culinary skills. Observing a few recommendations, you can pamper the household in the winter and avoid some mistakes.

Preliminary preparation

The king of mushrooms is rarely found small. Usually, a healthy exhibit is caught in the eye. If you are lucky to become the owner of small mushrooms, you can rejoice - there will be less hassle with processing.

So, the wealth of the forest brought home. The next step for most housewives is to fill the mushrooms with water. This is the wrong time to freeze. White perfectly absorbs water, it turns into ice and spoils the structure of the fungus. First you need to clean them. No, not a peeler, it is damage to the product. With the most ordinary hands, gently remove: mote, grass, leaves. With a sharp knife, cut a thin layer from the bottom of the leg, where the earth remained. She stayed - we twisted the mushrooms in the forest, and not cut, right? To return to the intact mycelium next season, right? Remove all wormholes, scratches, dark places.

And now you can wash. No, do not soak. Forgot this habit! Remembered only in the case of the pods! And white mushrooms gently rinsed under running water. We try not to break them, the whole will beautifully decorate a salad or roast. And the records look much more appetizing when they are from a whole mushroom.Next, the raw materials must be dried. The usual thick old towel copes with the task. Paper also quite fit.

How to freeze the white mushrooms

There are 4 options for follow-up:

• steam
• cook
• fry
• leave raw

Steam treatment

Large mushrooms cut into plates or cubes, poured into a colander or sieve. Then set in a pan, at the bottom of which there is poured 3-5 cm of pure water. The whole structure is covered with a lid, put on fire. Steamed when boiling the liquid for 4-6 minutes. Cool.

If whole mushrooms are steamed, the processing time is increased to 7-9 minutes.

Council Instead of a sieve, you can use any suitable grid. For example, from a double boiler or microwave.

Cooking
It also saves space, but also saves valuable cooking time in winter. It turns out almost semi-finished home-made!

Fully prepared boletus dipped in boiling water at the rate of 2.5 liters of liquid per 500 g of fresh raw materials.Boil 2 minutes, recline in a colander and cool. It is chopped up. Whole cooked 4 minutes.

Council Porcini mushrooms are boiled without salt in order to preserve juiciness during freezing.

Roasting
The most optimal way. Perfectly preserves the very divine aroma of white mushrooms. It allows fantasy to work as much as possible in the kitchen after defrosting.

The prepared raw material is cut in a convenient way. In a frying pan or stewpot pour a little vegetable oil. What is olive or corn? For traditional Russian cuisine - only sunflower! Heat up and pour out the mushrooms. Fry to almost dry and light browning over medium heat. Cooking time depends on the number of whites and the width of the pan. Cool.

Qualitatively fry whole white mushrooms turn out badly, and the shape of this is deformed. And we want not only tasty, but also so nice to the eyes. Because the plates - the most optimal.

Another method of roasting is in the oven. Splash a little oil on a baking sheet, pour out mushrooms. Fry until no longer stand out juice. Stir several times for uniform browning of the boletus.But this method is for craftsmen. Because in the oven it is easy to overdo the mushrooms. Although, who canceled the experiments in the kitchen? Try it, maybe your generation will remember your freeze recipe for centuries.

Council Together with mushrooms, you can fry chopped onions or your favorite greens. It will turn out a ready filling for pies or pie.

Frost Fresh
There is no worries at all - just cut, as it will be convenient, or leave whole. There is an option to rinse raw boletus with acidified water (citric acid) so that they do not lose color. But the fungus is therefore called white, that after all the manipulations and heat treatments, its flesh still remains white! The hat, of course, will be brown. Therefore, you can not torment mushrooms with acid.

How to store porcini mushrooms

After one of the methods of preparing the mushrooms was chosen, while they themselves completely cooled down, they were removed for storage. There are two options: immediately for permanent or with preliminary freezing.

First option. Borovychka is laid out in portions in bags or small trays, hermetically sealed and cleaned in the freezer.

Second: for the pre-freeze-up, the whites are first laid out on a baking sheet or tray covered with film and left in the freezer for 3 hours. And only then poured into bags or special containers from food plastic.

Council Use bags for freezing. They do not allow smells and are intended for food products. It is better if they are with a special clip or zip fastener.

Useful tips

1. In the package there should be as little air as possible, the flavor will be better preserved, and the mushrooms themselves will not oxidize.
2. Mushrooms absorb foreign odors well. Therefore, the maximum closed container lid is a guarantee not to try whites in the winter with the aroma of dill or raw meat.
3. Fresh, steamed or boiled white mushrooms with proper packaging can be stored in the freezer for up to 12 months. Pre-fried - only 8 months. As a rule, so much time is not required. Frosts end much earlier.
4. In order to pamper your home with high-quality mushroom sauce on a cold winter evening, you can freeze the cake mix in advance.Roast and cooled borovichki mince through a meat grinder, then spread out in bags in a thin layer and freeze. Then, while cooking, it remains only to add cream, herbs and salt.
5. The same is done if the mushrooms during transportation have lost their appearance, creased, crumbled. Beautiful cubes will not work, so they make stuffing. The color, taste and amount of nutrients will not change.
6. Best for freezing fit young strong mushrooms. Then after defrosting they will be as fresh. Old flabby boletuses will remain limp and unappetizing.
7. Some hostesses miss such an important stage as drying. Washed in the freezer. In winter they take out the whites and ... go for the ax. With another tool to get the monolithic piece start hardly possible. And who is to blame? Own laziness.
8. Thawed obtained semi-finished products must be strictly in the refrigerator, covered with foil. Mushrooms are a tasty morsel for various pathogenic bacteria. Yes, and the view will be more beautiful with natural thawing. No soaking in the water, otherwise all the autumn efforts will go to the cat's tail. And it's better not to defrost at all. We got out of the freezer and immediately to cook.All the vitamins and nutritional value will be on your plate, and not in the thawed water.
9. Do not cut the white mushrooms too thin. Half a centimeter - the most it. Still not a rag, but already not a huge chunk. Slices of such thickness look very nice in a dish and it is convenient to eat them.
10. Pre-freezing does not require 3 hours, if you have a function of shock freezing. When using it, just half an hour is enough for a firm crust to appear on the mushrooms.

How to freeze the white mushrooms for the winter - you already know. Now in your freezer there will always be delicious for meeting unexpected guests or hastily dinner. Of course, if a little bit to overcome his laziness in the season.

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