Podberezovik is a mushroom widespread in Russia, characterized by excellent taste and incorporating a lot of useful substances - vitamins (B, D, E, C) and minerals (phosphorus, etc.).
It is practically in no way inferior to the amazing porcini mushroom in terms of useful properties and nutritional value. You can meet him on various soils, in birch forests and forest belts, in clearings and forest edges. The collection of brown boletus is made from late spring to mid-autumn.
Different types of mushroom are known, but the largest is the common boletus. You can recognize it by a convex pillow-shaped hat, which has a different color - gray, brown or brown. The leg of the mushroom is usually long, slightly thickening downward, usually a light white-gray hue. The pulp does not change color on the cut; it is dense in structure and white. Boletus is one of the most delicious mushrooms eaten in fresh, dried, fried, pickled form. How to clean boletus - read in our article. We will also tell you how to process and cook these excellent mushrooms.
How to clean the boletus correctly?
If you have collected or bought such mushrooms and brought them home, then you should start cleaning as soon as possible. The thing is that boletuses are not stored uncleaned for a long time and quickly deteriorate. Mushrooms should be processed depending on where they were collected and what contaminants they have. For example, birch trees collected in a clear forest with a large bed of moss and leaves, as a rule, do not need serious processing. Usually they are clean enough, so you only need to clean the hat and base of the leg a little, remove adhering leaves and other debris, and also make sure that the birch is not wormy, making an incision in the pulp.
In the event that the mushrooms grew in the grass, on open glades and edges, they will need more serious cleaning, as sand, dust and dirt adhere to their surface. How to clean the boletus in this case: carefully scrape with a knife, remove all adhering large debris, and also remove all damaged places, if any. If the mushroom is wormy, then it should be soaked in salt water or discarded. After cleaning, the boletus must be rinsed. It is convenient to do this as follows: place a batch of boletus in a colander and immerse them in a large basin with running water several times. So you wash away all the sand and other rubbish easily and quickly. Now you know
how to peel mushrooms . It is not difficult to do this, especially if they are clean and young, without damage and wormholes.
How to clean boletus and what can be prepared from them?
It is known that these gifts of the forest are practically inferior in taste to the famous porcini mushroom. Therefore, they consume boletus in food in a variety of variations - dried,
salted, pickled, fried, boiled, etc. Before preparing them, the main thing is to remember that these mushrooms tend to darken very much during heat treatment. This should not be scared.
If you want to keep boletus in the freezer, first they should be boiled in salted water twice for 20 minutes. You can also dry these mushrooms for the winter. This is easy to do with an oven. Preheat the oven to 150 ° C, cut off the legs from the hats, place them on a baking sheet separately from each other. Leave them for an hour, lowering the temperature to 120 ° C. After that, make a minimum fire and dry for about 6 hours. The readiness of mushrooms can be determined by the fragility of the cap. You need to store such a blank in a paper bag in a cool dark place.
What to do with boletus mushrooms yet? In addition to drying and freezing, you can fry mushrooms or make fragrant soup from them. They are so delicious that any dish will turn out flawless!