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Fried russula with potatoes is a tasty and satisfying dish that cannot be spoiled by starting to cook without knowing a number of features of this type of mushroom. Having prepared it correctly, you can forever fall in love with russula with an exquisitely bitter taste and mouth-watering juicy aroma. This is why the right recipes and accurate step-by-step steps are so important.
Is it possible to fry russula with potatoes
It is not just possible, but necessary to fry: in oil, with onions and garlic, russula fully reveal their taste and go well with potatoes (especially young ones).
However, to get a truly tasty result, it is important to follow a few guidelines:
- To choose russula for frying with potatoes only young and healthy, without damage and wormy areas.
- Divide large (more than 7 cm) caps in diameter into 2-4 pieces.
- Use a mixture of vegetable oil with butter to soften a little and at the same time emphasize the slightly bitter taste of the mushrooms.
- Finish cooking as soon as the pieces begin to dry and wrinkle.
How to fry russula with potatoes in a pan
To fry russula with potatoes tastier, it is important to properly prepare the mushrooms:
- Rinse thoroughly twice with cool running water, eliminating floating debris.
- Remove wormy, damaged and spoiled mushrooms, leave only young and firm ones, with flawless pulp.
- Cut to half of the leg (if the product was harvested more than a day ago) or use only hats for cooking.
Additionally, you can remove the skin from the caps by cooling them in water, and then picking up the thin skin by the edge with a knife.
Recipes for cooking fried russula with potatoes
When the mushrooms are selected, washed, soaked and chopped, you can start creating delicious fried potatoes with russula in a pan. There are several excellent recipes that will help you cook a dish with the best taste - both simple, with a minimum set of ingredients, and complex, with sour cream sauce.
A simple recipe for fried russula with potatoes
Young potatoes are ideal for this recipe, as they hold the chunks in shape thanks to their firm flesh and a minimum of starch.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- mushrooms - 600 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 3-4 teeth;
- butter (vegetable and butter) - 2 tbsp. l .;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
The cooking process takes place in several steps:
- Mix and heat the oils in a skillet.
- Chop the peeled onion into cubes, chop the garlic into thin slices, divide the mushrooms (large) into 2-4 parts.
- Fry until golden brown, stirring in oil, onion and garlic, then add russula, salt and pepper to taste. Cook until they give juice, 8-10 minutes over moderate heat (onions should not burn).
- Sprinkle thin strips of potatoes with salt in a deep bowl, stir, send to the pan after 5 minutes.After that, under the lid, russula are cooked fried with potatoes for another 8-9 minutes, and then open for 10 minutes.
It is best to serve the dish hot - hot, hot, sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs. For those who do not like fried garlic, we can recommend using it fresh: chop finely and add to the finished potatoes.
How to cook russula fried with potatoes in sour cream sauce
Mushrooms in sour cream is a classic cooking option, and the taste does not need to be supplemented with other products. Nevertheless, in combination with potatoes, russula turn out to be completely fabulous.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- mushrooms - 500 g;
- sour cream (20% fat) - 200 ml;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- oil (vegetable) - 2 tbsp. l .;
- salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.
You can cook fried russula mushrooms with potatoes using the following sequence of actions:
- Heat the oil, sauté finely chopped onions in it until they become transparent, then remove the pan from the heat.
- Thoroughly rinse the russula, remove the skin on the caps, boil in salted water for 5-7 minutes, put in a colander, cut and fry until crisp over high heat.
- Put the browned pieces to the onion, pour over sour cream, sprinkle with salt and pepper, stir, bring to a boil and let simmer for 6-8 minutes.
- Put potatoes cut into thin strips in a separate frying pan, season with salt and cover, fry for 10 minutes, then add mushrooms in sour cream sauce, mix everything and cook for another 8-10 minutes without a lid.
- Sprinkle with chopped herbs before serving.
Calorie content of fried potatoes with russula mushrooms
Those who plan to fry russula with potatoes in a pan, but at the same time monitor their weight, should be warned about the calorie content of such a delicacy:
- simple recipe - 83.9 Kcal per 100 g of ready-made dish;
- recipe with sour cream sauce - more than 100-104 Kcal per 100 g.
In addition to a fairly high calorie content, such dishes are hard and long to digest.
Conclusion
Fried russula with potatoes is a classic dish, appreciated and loved by mushroom pickers. Observing the rules for preparing the components and the exact sequence of actions, it is very easy to fry this delicacy. It will be much more difficult to determine which tastes better: a dish according to a simple recipe or with the addition of sour cream, neat or sprinkled with herbs, with fried or fresh garlic, laid on top of the finished dish.
