Summer is the time for a “quiet hunt”, and many of us with great desire go to the forest to enjoy its beauty and, naturally, pick up a basket of some of the most valuable mushrooms - brown boletus and ceps. These mushrooms are incredibly tasty when roasted, especially if you strictly follow the technology of their preparation.
Pick your recipe
Porcini mushrooms and boletus are an amazing product, because you can cook many dishes from them, with the exception of sweet desserts. Mushroom soups, gravy, casseroles, cabbage rolls, pies, salads, dumplings - these are just a small part of the options for dishes, in reality there are many more. The simplest dish is fried mushrooms, and it is precisely its majority that the housewives prefer to serve to their household. And this is not surprising, because fried brown boletus and white are incredibly tasty, especially if you do not boil them before frying.
Do I need to cook boletus and porcini mushrooms before frying
To figure out whether these mushrooms should be boiled before frying, you need to know why this procedure is needed. Forest mushrooms absorb absolutely all substances from the air and the earth, including toxins, and boiling them is a guarantee that most harmful substances will go into the broth, and the mushrooms themselves will be “cleaned” of them. Therefore, if you pick mushrooms near the city or the roadway, then boiling is a must, in other cases boiling mushrooms or not, decide at your discretion, just remember that cooking will favorably affect the usefulness of the product, but negatively - on its aroma and taste qualities.
How and how much to cook porcini mushrooms and boletus
Cooking these mushrooms is a simple matter. It is necessary to thoroughly clean the debris from the mushrooms, cut off the dark skin from the legs, check them for worminess (a sign of worminess - tiny holes in the legs and hats, the presence of worms). Next, rinse the mushrooms under running water, cut into large pieces and dip in a pan with cold salt water. Put the pan on the fire, and after boiling, cook mushrooms for 10-15 minutes, constantly removing the resulting foam. After cooking, put the mushrooms in a colander and let the water drain. After 20 minutes, you can begin to fry them.