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Marinated shiitake for the winter is a great dish that turns out quickly and tasty. Usually, shiitake and various spices are used in recipes: coriander, basil, parsley, bay leaf and cloves. The dish can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time, before serving the shiitake, it is washed from the marinade.
Preparing to marinate shiitake mushrooms
To make a delicious shiitake snack, you need to be sure of the quality of the product. They should not be lethargic, wormy, or moldy. Only the highest quality and freshest are suitable for cooking.
Spicy Shiitake Snack
Spicy, crispy shiitake appetizer is served at feasts, as an addition to side dishes or as a stand-alone meal. If you sprinkle it with herbs and add chopped vegetables, then you can serve it with alcoholic products.
This can be done in the oven or microwave, as well as steamed, if you put them on the neck in a mantle cooker. The lids are sterilized separately. They need to be boiled for 15 minutes. with water in a small saucepan.
Mushrooms should be washed and peeled before cooking. If necessary, remove the leg or trim it slightly. The ingredients necessary for pickling are selected:
- vinegar;
- cloves;
- black peppercorns;
- Bay leaf.
All washed ingredients must be dried on a towel so that there is no excess moisture.
How to pickle shiitake mushrooms
The simplest recipe takes about 45 minutes. You need to marinate shiitake only in sterilized containers and use warm marinating.
To do this, you need to prepare the mushrooms. Wash, clean, remove the leg. Then they should be boiled, drained and boiled in new water with the addition of the necessary ingredients, including salt, sugar, vinegar and other seasonings and spices.
Shiitake mushroom appetizer marinated
Mushrooms are transferred to jars and poured with marinade. You can also sterilize finished jars. To do this, they are covered with lids, placed in a large saucepan, filled with water, slightly receding from the neck. Boil for about 25 minutes. for 1 liter, but you can not do this if you boil all the ingredients with high quality. Roll up the lids and let it brew. Then they are put into the refrigerator and stored there.
Pickled Shiitake Recipes
Cooking pickled shiitake consists of cutting, boiling and rolling them into a jar. Various recipes for making pickled shiitake include ingredients such as honey, soy sauce, and ginger.
The classic pickled shiitake recipe
To create a standard marinade and prepare a snack, you will need:
- mushrooms - 200-300 g;
- ginger 15 g (raw);
- a glass of clean water;
- vinegar 6% - a third of the glass;
- soy sauce - a third of the glass;
- half a teaspoon of cloves;
- natural honey - a third of a glass;
- half a teaspoon of black peppercorns;
- salt - half a tablespoon.
Shiitake marinated
Step by step cooking:
- The main product and ginger must be washed and peeled. The leg is separated from the main ingredient and the cap is cut into several parts to better marinate. You can cook it whole if the hat is small, or you have to wait longer for salting.
- Cut the ginger into small strips, you can grate it on a coarse grater.
- Water is poured into a saucepan, the base of the dish is sent there and boiled with the addition of a small amount of salt. After the water boils, the power of the fire is reduced, and it is left to simmer for 7 minutes. The first water must be drained through a sieve.
- Pure water is poured into a saucepan, vinegar, ginger and other products are added. Cook the marinade until boiling, add the main product there. Cooking time is about 35 minutes. All products must be ready. After removing from the stove, let the marinade cool down.
- Meanwhile, the pickled shiitake is placed in sterilized jars so that there are as few voids as possible. Fragrant spices (cloves and peppers) are removed from the marinade and jars are poured over them. You can sterilize the finished product in a cooker. After that, you need to tighten the lids, cool the workpiece and put it in the refrigerator.
Spicy Pickled Shiitake Recipe
The spicy appetizer contains adjika, ginger and black peppercorns in the recipe. All ingredients are pretreated with water and cleaned. Would need:
- half a kilogram of mushrooms;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- ginger;
- Bay leaf;
- cloves;
- coriander - a pinch;
- vinegar 6% - a tablespoon;
- adjika (dry);
- salt.
Step by step cooking:
- The main ingredient is washed and boiled in boiling water for about 10-15 minutes. Then it is poured through a colander and washed again under cold water, allowed to cool on a towel to remove excess moisture.
- For the marinade, you need a saucepan of clean water, about 0.5 liters. Spices, garlic, ginger are added to the water. The brine should boil for 15 minutes, then the main ingredient is added to it and boiled for about 7 minutes more.
- Using a spoon, the contents of the pan are transferred to jars so that there are fewer voids, then marinade and vinegar are poured. Banks are rolled up, cooled and placed on a cool shelf in the refrigerator. The dish is ready in a few days.
Spicy pickled shiitake
If desired, onions, carrots and other spices can be added to the recipe. It is necessary to process vegetables before pickling, for example, fry in a pan with vegetable oil or simmer with pickled shiitake.
Terms and conditions of storage
If the shiitake is cooked correctly, that is, boiled, pickled and laid out in sterile dishes and hermetically rolled up, then their shelf life in the refrigerator can be about 1 year. At the same time, it is important that the temperature regime is observed, direct sunlight and storage at high temperatures should not be allowed.
To check the tightness of the workpiece, the jar is placed on the lid. If it does not leak, then the tightness is not broken. The pickled appetizer can be stored in the freezer and is perfect for making soups.
The opened product should only be stored in the refrigerator and consumed within a few days. Pickled Shiitake with obvious taste or visual defects should not be eaten.
Conclusion
Pickled shiitake goes well with any meal as a main course with a side dish or as an appetizer for a strong drink. Whole fresh shiitake is marinated with the addition of spices to taste. The appetizer is stored for a long time, and the preparation of this dish takes less than an hour.
Serve with a side dish or on a plate with chopped vegetables. Sprinkle with herbs. It is best to rinse the pickled shiitake from the brine if it is to be used in a salad.
