Not everyone knows how to salt and pickle mushrooms, therefore, freezing mushrooms sometimes becomes the best option. Frozen mushrooms will help out in many situations, because you can quickly cook soup from them, make a filling for pies or pizza, add to fried potatoes.
How to freeze fresh mushrooms
You can freeze whole mushrooms, fresh. After thorough cleaning, the mushrooms must be laid out on a flat surface and sent to the freezer. After a few hours, the frozen mushrooms should be poured into a pre-prepared bag or container, and put back into the freezer.
When choosing mushrooms for freezing, make sure that they are strong and even, then after thawing they will not lose their attractive appearance and will keep their shape. Frozen porcini mushrooms, honey agarics, aspen mushrooms and chanterelles are well stored in the freezer.
How to freeze stewed or boiled mushrooms
Boil the mushrooms for five minutes before sending them to the freezer. Basically, in this way it is customary to freeze mushrooms, which will subsequently go for frying. Also, this method is good for those mushrooms that have lost their original shape, that is, broke into pieces.
Peeled and chopped mushrooms should be dipped in boiling water and cooked for about five minutes. After that, you need to let the mushrooms cool, throw them in a colander and put them in containers or food bags.
The number of mushrooms in one bag or container should be such that it can be used for preparing one dish.
How to freeze fried mushrooms
Washed and peeled mushrooms must be fried in a small amount of sunflower oil. It takes about 20 minutes to fry the mushrooms for the excess moisture to evaporate from them. Arrange the chilled mushrooms in bags and put them in the freezer.
To prevent mushrooms from losing their extraordinary aroma and taste, they can be baked in the oven without adding oil. After that, the mushrooms need to be frozen.
