The mushroom a birch mushroom has a hat with a diameter up to 15 cm, color its yellowish, brown, gray or brown. The leg of a birch mushroom is covered with dark scales. You will find this mushroom in the mixed and deciduous forests since the end of May on October. The birch mushroom grows quickly, but also easily and gets out of the shape. Big copies are almost always struck by worms.
It is required to you
- For soup:
- birch mushrooms of 400-500 g;
- salt 1 tablespoon;
- onions 1 small bulb;
- potatoes 2 pieces of the average size;
- carrots 1 piece of the average size;
- garlic 2 cloves;
- bay leaf
- greens
- sour cream
- pepper to taste.
- For pickling:
- birch mushrooms of 1 kg;
- salt 2 tablespoons;
- citric acid 2 tablespoons;
- vinegar of 9% 2 tablespoons;
- bay leaf of 5 pieces;
- allspice peas half of a teaspoon.
Instruction
1. Feature of birch mushrooms is the low expiration date. Therefore at once after collecting mushrooms it is necessary to start their preparation. At big birch mushrooms cut off the bases of legs and the tubular layer forming disputes. Carefully wash out all mushrooms in cold water, it is especially important because birch mushrooms practically all worm-eaten.
2. Lay out clean mushrooms in ware, fill in it with water and put on fire. When water begins to boil, pour out it and add new. Now all hazardous substances which could be in birch mushrooms are removed.
3. It is necessary to cook this grade of mushrooms 40-50 minutes. During cooking periodically remove foam. Immersion of mushrooms on a bottom of a pan testifies to their readiness, after cooking they decrease in a size. It is a classical way of cooking of birch mushrooms.
4. From these mushrooms it is possible to cook fragrant soup. Take about 500 grams of birch mushrooms, carefully wash out them a hot water jet. You cook mushrooms in a large amount of salty water, from time to time scum.
5. Add greens, bay leaf and pepper to a pan. Peel potatoes and two carrots. Cut potatoes in cubes, and wipe carrots on a large grater. Crush or cut garlic and mix with other vegetables, add them to a pan and mix. Lower a bulb in soup, boil 10 minutes and take out it. It is necessary to give with greens and sour cream.
6. Birch mushrooms can and be pickled. Carefully touch mushrooms, clean and wash up them. It is better to cut big birch mushrooms. Lower them in a pan and you cook in a large amount of water of minutes 50-60.
7. Stir slowly and periodically scum. Add to a pan a little vinegar and seasoning to taste, you cook 10 more minutes. Place mushrooms in banks and fill in with broth. Cool birch mushrooms and you store in the cool place.