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The mushroom season begins with the arrival of warmth in the forest glades. Mushrooms appear on forest edges, under trees or on stumps following warm summer rains. After a successful "hunt" questions arise about how to prepare mushrooms. It depends on the characteristics of the variety. It is imperative to cook volushki, russula, pigs before cooking.
Do I need to boil the waves before salting or pickling
Volnushki are mushrooms that are classified as conditionally edible. This means that they cannot be used raw.
Waves begin to appear at the edges of birch forests in early June. They can be easily seen from afar by their pinkish cap with rounded edges. They can grow singly or form entire colonies. Places where you can find waves, usually sunny, warm, with an increased presence of birch trees.
The cap of the mushroom grows up to 12 cm in diameter, there are plates under it. When broken or cut, the wave reveals white pulp and milky juice. The juice is bitter and pungent, so to prepare a wave, you need to additionally soak and cook.
Many mushroom pickers believe that additional processing of mushrooms is not necessary when salting or pickling. This is not true. Despite the fact that the hot method of salting or pickling is an additional method of heat treatment, cooking the little ones helps to improve the overall taste of the workpiece and prevents the settling of toxins inside the fruiting body or cap.
Preparing mushrooms for boiling
They begin to cook the waves after the stage-by-stage preparation of the mushrooms. They retain their shape well, therefore they are subject to long-term transportation. After collecting, the waves can be stored for some time in baskets at an air temperature of up to +10 ° C without loss of quality.
Processing begins with a thorough examination of each mushroom:
- discard wormy specimens;
- cut off damaged parts: legs or caps;
- remove adhering dirt particles from the surface of the cap with a brush.
Then the mushrooms are washed. For this, 2 basins are used: cold water is poured into one, the other is filled with warm water.
Is it possible to cook waves without soaking them
Soaking is one of the types of processing that is necessarily used for milky mushrooms, as well as specimens with plate caps. The procedure is necessary in order to eliminate the taste of the bitterness of the emitted milky juice.
In addition, soaking is carried out for all types of mushrooms belonging to the conditionally edible group in order to exclude the possibility of poisoning.
Waves are soaked for at least a day before further boiling. At the same time, the basic rules are observed:
- when soaking for 3 days, change the water every day to prevent mushrooms from souring;
- soaking for 1 day is recommended to be carried out in salted water, this will speed up the process of removing bitterness (for 10 liters, take 1 tbsp. l. large crystals of salt).
Is it possible to cook volushki with other mushrooms
Volnushki can be boiled with other mushrooms, which are conditionally edible in type and do not differ from each other in cooking technology.When cooking, the whites are cut into pieces, they can be cooked with parts of milk mushrooms, russula, camelina.
How to cook waves correctly
After soaking, the mushroom mass is cleaned again. The hats are washed from the formed mucus, the sections on the legs are renewed. Then everything is thrown into a colander so that the water remaining after soaking is completely glass. For final drying, the waves are laid out on a clean towel or paper napkins.
How much do you need to cook mushrooms
To proceed with further boiling, take clean cold water so that it covers the caps and legs by 2 - 3 cm. The answer to the question of how long to cook the waves depends on the further processing method.
Until ready
The mushrooms are completely ready when they become soft. In this case, the shade of the hats darkens a little, and the legs acquire a light shade.
Until fully cooked, the waves are boiled when they plan to cook mushroom caviar, salad with mushrooms. One of the options may be to prepare filling for pies or kulebyak.
The cooking time is measured from the beginning of boiling. After boiling, continue to cook the mushroom mass over low heat for 30 minutes.
For salting
This type of mushroom is often used for pickling. Long processing stages do not change the structure, the mushrooms remain dense when salted, retain their shape. Preparation for the procedure has several features. For cold or hot salting in glass jars, it is important to follow the recommendations:
- The waves are boiled in salted water: the mushrooms are dipped in boiling water and kept for about 5 - 10 minutes. on fire;
- then they are thrown into a colander and cooked for another 5 - 10 minutes.
Before salting in tubs, the absence of additional cooking is allowed, but in this case it is taken into account that the salting technology must fully comply with the rules:
- mushrooms are soaked for three days, the water is changed daily;
- then the tubs are laid out on the bottom, salted, covered with a second layer, salted again;
- the last layer is covered with cabbage leaves or currant leaves, then the oppression is evenly distributed;
- the tubs are stored at a temperature not exceeding + 10 ° С, full readiness occurs in 2 - 3 months.
In order to properly cook salting waves, it is necessary to determine the further method of salting. The selected processing option depends on the amount of salt and the cooking technology.
Before frying
Fried mushrooms with potatoes and onions is a delicious traditional Russian dish. For him, use a boiled mass. Before frying, you can cook the waves until half cooked. Further heat treatment involves bringing the mushrooms to full readiness. They are re-boiled for 15 - 20 minutes, then fried until completely softened.
Before freezing
For freezing caps and legs, the cooking time is reduced to 15 minutes. Dry them thoroughly on a towel before freezing. If you do not allow excess moisture to drain, then when frozen, it will turn into ice. For defrosting, the mushroom mass is left at room temperature for 30 minutes. Then the mushrooms are boiled for an additional 15 minutes.
For pickling
Pickling is a preservation method in which acids and table salt perform the main actions. They affect the product, preventing the development of microorganisms, as well as positively affecting the overall taste and structure of the preparations. The basic principles of processing are as follows:
- with the cold method of pickling, the waves are cooked for 20 - 25 minutes;
- with a hot marinating method, it is enough to boil the product for 15 minutes.
How much to cook mushrooms without soaking
After tedious gatherings, mushroom pickers try to quickly process the collected material and put the blanks for storage. Fans of fries with mushrooms believe that soaking is compensated by longer cooking. It's a delusion. Soaking and boiling have different goals:
- the caps and legs are soaked to eliminate the bitterness that the milky juice gives;
- boiling is necessary for the complete removal of toxic substances and the complete elimination of food poisoning.
Waves are not cooked without first soaking. Boiling does not help to get rid of the bitterness of the milky juice that the plates of the caps contain.
How many boiled waves are stored
There are times when the soaking time has expired: the mushrooms are boiled, but there is no time for further processing. Then the processed waves are put away for storage, so that pickles or marinades can be prepared later.
The best option for preserving the boiled parts is freezing. They use plastic containers or plastic bags with convenient flaps.
Cooked parts are stored in a refrigerator at a temperature of 0 to +2 ° C, no more than a day. Before further preparation, it is recommended to additionally blanch them for 5 minutes. Storage in the refrigerator makes the legs less elastic, the caps may change color: they darken partially.
Conclusion
Boil the waves before further cooking is necessary. This type of lactarius is distinguished by its bitter juice, which spoils the overall taste of dishes if it is insufficiently processed. How much time to cook the waves before salting, and how much before pickling, depends on the chosen method of harvesting. The condition for the correct preparation of mushrooms is compliance with the processing rules.
