Summer is the time for "quiet hunting", and many of us with great desire go to the forest to enjoy its beauty and, of course, to pick up a basket of some of the most valuable mushrooms - boletus and white mushrooms. These mushrooms are incredibly tasty when fried, especially if the technology of their preparation is strictly followed.
Porcini mushrooms and boletus mushrooms are an amazing product, because many dishes can be prepared from them, with the exception of sweet desserts. Mushroom soups, gravies, casseroles, cabbage rolls, pies, salads, dumplings - this is 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 this dish that most housewives prefer to serve on the table to their households. And this is not surprising, because fried boletus and white boletus are incredibly tasty, especially if they are not boiled before frying.
Do I need to cook boletus and porcini mushrooms before frying
To figure out whether these mushrooms need to be boiled before frying, you need to know what this procedure is for. Forest mushrooms absorb absolutely all substances from the air and earth, including toxins, and boiling them is a guarantee that most of the harmful substances will pass into the broth, and the mushrooms themselves will be "cleansed" of them. Therefore, if you pick mushrooms near the city or the roadway, then boiling is a mandatory procedure, in other cases, boil mushrooms or not - decide at your discretion, just remember that cooking will have a beneficial effect on 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 mushrooms from debris, cut off the dark skin from the legs, check them for worminess (a sign of worminess is tiny holes in the legs and caps, the presence of worms). Next, rinse the mushrooms under running water, cut into large pieces and put them in a saucepan with cold salted water. Put the pan on the fire, and after boiling, cook the mushrooms for 10-15 minutes, constantly removing the resulting foam. After cooking, put the mushrooms in a colander and let the water drain. After about 20 minutes, you can start frying them.
