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Honey mushrooms are the most popular mushrooms in Russia, growing everywhere in whole families, so collecting them is a pleasure. Fruiting bodies can be boiled, fried in vegetable oil and butter, prepared into marinades, dried, frozen, and salted. They require careful processing before cooking. It is extremely important to clean and soak honey mushrooms in water, because this allows you to completely get rid of small forest insects and debris.
Is it necessary to soak honey mushrooms?
The soaking procedure is most often carried out so that the fruiting bodies are thoroughly cleaned, and invisible insects and worms float to the surface of the water. To do this, take 2 liters of water and a tablespoon of coarse table iodized salt.
Purchased fresh and dried mushrooms must be pre-soaked, because there is no complete confidence in their excellent quality of storage and drying
Mushrooms are also placed in water for half an hour before salting or pickling. Honey mushrooms will become light in color when soaked if you add a little vinegar to the water.
If the mushrooms are young, small in size, picked with your own hands and do not taste bitter, they do not need to be soaked.One of the most labor-intensive processes is the sorting and cleaning process.
Clean and small specimens are placed in a bowl and washed under running water. In this case, it is necessary to cut off the tips of their legs, then cook for 20 minutes.
It is absolutely necessary to pre-soak dried mushrooms before cooking. If you throw them into soup dry, it will turn out tasteless. Honey mushrooms will not have time to swell and reveal their flavor during cooking and will remain tough.
There is an unspoken rule about soaking all types of mushrooms. To do this, you need to take a large tank with clean cold water and place the already processed specimens there.
How long to soak honey mushrooms
The soaking time for honey mushrooms largely depends on their size and the degree of contamination. First, using a regular sponge, you need to shake off the dirt and remaining grass, then cut off the mycelium and a piece of the stem. Next, wash it under running water so that all the sand comes out, and only then place it in cold salted water.
Usually a lot of forest debris accumulates on the caps
The minimum duration of soaking fresh honey mushrooms is 60-80 minutes. Heavily contaminated fruits are soaked for a longer period. To do this, prepare a solution of 2 liters of water and a tablespoon of coarse table salt, which is poured over the mushrooms. After an hour, all the worms and insects will float to the surface. Dried mushrooms should be kept in water for 3-4 hours.
How long should honey mushrooms be soaked before cooking?
Before you start cooking honey mushrooms, it is important to pay attention to thoroughly washing the mushrooms.Long-term soaking leads to the fact that they lose their main qualities, and this has a bad effect on the taste of the finished dish.
Even the fruiting bodies need to be washed quickly, no more than 10 minutes.
After washing, it is better to pour cold water over the mushrooms and put them on the stove. Add salt and citric acid to the water. Cook for about 25-30 minutes, no more.
How long to soak honey mushrooms before salting
A salt solution (a tablespoon of non-iodized table salt per 2 liters of cold water) will help get rid of worms and insects. The salt composition needs to be mixed and poured over the mushrooms. In an hour or two all the bugs and worms will come out. The procedure will take no more than an hour.
After soaking, the mushrooms should be rinsed in warm running water, allowed to drain, discarded in a colander, and only then proceed to pickling.
Pickling is rightfully considered the most common way to store mushrooms for the winter. This preservation is suitable as a snack, an addition to side dishes and salads, soups, marinades, etc. Before using it, honey mushrooms need to be soaked from salt, this will take about 2 hours.
How long to soak honey mushrooms before frying
It is known that fresh fruiting bodies contain many useful vitamins, mineral salts, essential oils and other substances. Mushrooms are served with vegetables, fish, and meat. Whether it is necessary to soak honey mushrooms before frying, each housewife decides for herself.
The method of preparation depends on the size of the fruiting bodies, degree of contamination, type
Before frying fresh young mushrooms, they are washed, cleared of debris and boiled in clean water for about 20 minutes. Then put it in a colander, allow the moisture to drain and fry in a dry frying pan until the water has completely evaporated. Finally, pour in the oil and bring to a golden color.
Is it possible to leave honey mushrooms soaked overnight?
Only those honey mushrooms that were dried in the oven are left in the water all night. The heat of the oven makes the mushrooms tough, which is why they undergo this procedure. If you use fresh mushrooms, overnight soaking will not improve their taste.
There is a good tradition of soaking dry honey mushrooms in milk to make them softer
Whether it is possible to leave honey mushrooms in water overnight depends on their primary species; it is also important to look at the condition of the mushrooms. If they have acquired the condition they were in before drying, then the soaking process is stopped.
What to do if honey mushrooms turn sour when soaked
If on the second day fresh mushrooms turn sour when soaked, it means they were poorly cleaned. That is, the forest debris was not completely removed, and the tips of the legs were poorly trimmed. They are pruned only to remove the soil in which they grew, otherwise the fruiting bodies will quickly deteriorate.
If the mushrooms do not emit a strong rotten smell, select larger specimens, clean them of soil residues, and wash them separately under running water. Then they are boiled twice in salted water and salted using the hot method. If the smell is strong, get rid of the mushrooms.
There are several reasons why pre-soaked honey mushrooms begin to deteriorate:
- Inadequate cleaning and rinsing of the product.
- Failure to comply with salting rules. There was little salt or vinegar.
- Mushrooms will turn sour if many other ingredients, such as onions, are added to them.
- Lids and jars were not sterilized.
- The technology for preparing honey mushrooms was violated. For example, mushrooms were boiled for less time, etc.
- There were spoiled copies in the bank.
Conclusion
It is not at all necessary to soak honey mushrooms in water, especially fresh, strong, young ones, especially if pickles and marinade are not prepared from them. Also, there is no need to overload them with various spices, such as black peppercorns, suneli hops, etc. It is known that mushrooms accumulate many toxic substances. Therefore, the younger the honey mushroom, the less poison it contains. Fresh, young mushrooms have their own unique sweetish taste. Experts recommend tinting the natural taste of honey mushrooms with garlic, cherry leaves, currants, cloves, allspice, bay leaves, and dill.
