Prepare for future use, you can completely any mushroom, if only they were edible, and in the following material we will talk about how to freeze the boletus for the winter.
How to properly freeze fresh boletus for the winter?
Frozen fresh, strong and young mushrooms are ideal, it is from these that the most fragrant dishes are finally obtained, and therefore the largest podberezoviki are best dried, pre-cut into thin slices.
Start with a bulkhead of mushrooms, selecting whole specimens without rot and wormholes. Clean the mushrooms with a brush or a damp cloth. It is desirable to avoid contact of mushrooms with water as much as mushrooms absorb water like a sponge, the liquid turns into ice during frost and spoils the quality of the fungus.
Dispatched and cleaned from external contamination mushrooms put on any large board or grate and send to freeze in this form. After several hours spent in the freezer, the mushrooms can be poured into special containers or bags for storage. Defrosting is best done in the refrigerator, so the mushrooms turn out to be fresh.
How to properly freeze boiled mushrooms boletus?
Before freezing the boletus at home, many prefer to be safe and boil mushrooms . During cooking, the toxins accumulated in mushrooms emerge, which easily impart fruit bodies growing in contaminated soil.
Also on the boiled billet it is possible to start the broken mushrooms, which will only be cut before being placed in the freezer.
Rinse and chopped mushrooms place in boiling water for 10 minutes, then remove the mushrooms and leave them in a colander until completely cooled. To ensure that the pieces do not stick together, it is best to leave them frozen on a flat surface, and then pour them into bags and containers.
How to freeze roasted boletus for the winter in the freezer?
Maximum time to save when cooking pre-frying mushrooms. For cooking, it will be enough to simply heat the mushrooms in a frying pan or microwave oven - and they are ready for use within your favorite dishes.
As well as before any other methods of preparation, before frying, the boletus is also cleaned and wiped with a damp cloth, getting rid of any contaminants. Some also prefer to boil the mushrooms before further culinary manipulation, but we recommend that you spend this time only if you are in doubt about the place of collection of mushrooms.
Peel the mushrooms into small slices. Too it is not necessary to mimic, after all it is necessary to consider, that mushrooms and without that will lose in volume at a frying. Fry a large number of mushrooms in portions, so that the evolved liquid could evaporate, and the mushrooms are not stewed in their own juice, but roasted. During cooking, the mushrooms should be additionally salted in order to speed up the removal of liquid from the pieces. Not too much will be various herbs with spices.
After frying, the podberezoviki are left to cool down completely, and then distributed into bags and containers for further frost. Note that after defrosting, you should use all the mushrooms at a time, as they quickly deteriorate.