Fairy-ring mushrooms — perhaps, the most widespread type of honey agarics. They grow not on trees, and directly on the earth — "pixy-rings" or "paths". It is considered that these mushrooms most well show the gustatory qualities in soups. But of course, they can also be fried or pickled.
Of course, before cooking it is necessary to make sure of what was gathered by you fairy-ring mushrooms. The fact is that this mushroom has a poisonous double — volokonnitsa. Plates of the last have dark brown color. Volokonnitsa unpleasantly smell. Meadow honey agarics differ in a light clove smell. So, how to prepare fairy-ring mushrooms?
How to prepare mushrooms
Fairy-ring mushrooms usually grow in rather dense grass. Therefore it is worth collecting them more accurately, using a small knife. These mushrooms have pretty small sizes. And it will be difficult to choose travina from their damp weight in the subsequent.
The fairy-ring mushrooms brought from the steppe or the forest should be wetted at first for a couple of hours in a big cup with water. Further mushrooms need to be washed out and removed carefully at them a leg. The last when cooking aren't used as turn out very rigid and fibrous.
How to cook fairy-ring mushrooms soup
Quite so most often skilled mushroom pickers use these mushrooms. To cook soup from forest honey agarics, they need to be cut at first (rather small). Then mushrooms fill in with water in a pan and after boiling cook 40-45 minutes. Further add the cut potatoes to the turned-out dark fragrant bulyonchik it is (more). At this time it is necessary to make usual onions and carrot fried vegetables. After potatoes cook, it is added to soup. In five minutes prior to the end of cooking in broth throw one small laurel leaflet, and in two minutes — the cut onions and fennel in a large number. Further gas under a pan soup of 5-7 minutes needs to switch off and allow to infuse. Then from broth it is necessary to throw out bay leaf. Fairy-ring mushrooms soup is ready.
How to fry
But often these mushrooms use also for frying. Fairy-ring mushrooms belong to the IV category. However skilled mushroom pickers before frying usually don't boil them to keep aroma. But it is possible, it is worth being reinsured nevertheless and previously to boil thoroughly fairy-ring mushrooms of minutes 15 in a pan.
Prepare these mushrooms for frying as well as for soup. That is presoak, wash out and delete legs. For frying these small mushrooms can even be not cut. But in this case everything depends on flavoring preferences of mushroom pickers. If honey agarics weren't boiled previously, they should be scalded before frying boiled water.
Fry fairy-ring mushrooms on vegetable oil. It needs to be added to a frying pan approximately in the same quantity, as well as for potato. Also when cooking it is possible to use onions. It is desirable to fry it separately that it didn't darken. But some hostesses consider that onions kill a smell of mushrooms and don't add it to roast. As well as any other mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms can be filled with sour cream.
Very many hostesses prepare fried fairy-ring mushrooms for the winter. Such way is actually very convenient. Ready mushrooms in this case stack in a bag and place in the freezer. In their winter will be to get and warm in a frying pan enough.
How to prepare fairy-ring mushrooms: pickling
In this case preliminary preparation of mushrooms is also carried out. Legs for pickling should be deleted surely. At the same time about a hat it is possible to leave about 2 cm of "stump".
As well as any other mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms pickle not a baking plate metal, and under kapron covers. Thus it is possible to prevent development of botulism. Calculate how many ware is required for pickling of fairy-ring mushrooms, simply. On kilogram of mushrooms it will be necessary to take about one one-liter jar. Honey agarics uvarivatsya rather strongly.
Actually recipes of preparation of these mushrooms for the winter there is a set. For example, following recipe. For preparation of tasty fungi in bank it will be necessary to take:
- waters — 1.5 liters;
- allspice — 8 goroshk;
- bay leaf — 2 pieces;
- garlic — 2 zubk;
- sugar — 1 tablespoon;
- vinegar and salt — on 2 tablespoons.
As well as before frying, before pickling these mushrooms can be boiled. As soon as they begin to settle on a pan bottom, disconnect gas and drain water. Further pour fresh water and cook mushrooms until ready about an hour. Then broth is merged in a clean saucepan.
For preparation of marinade in broth put spices, sugar, salt. Further it is put on fire approximately again for 10 minutes then add to it vinegar. The sterilized banks fill with mushrooms up to the top. Further in them pour still a warm marinade. Then banks close also sterilized kapron covers.
It is necessary to store the mushrooms prepared thus in the cool dark place. Just the cellar will be ideal for this purpose, for example.