Redheads are delicious forest mushrooms of a noble, almost amber color. They are great for salting for future use, freezing, stewing, frying. It is not difficult to cook them, however, as with all forest mushrooms, safety measures should be remembered. How to fry saffron mushrooms will be discussed.
Gingerbread Man
It is noteworthy that this fungus is unique in its own way, because it does not have toxic doubles. An inexperienced mushroom picker might have confused it with a grebe, but its faded color does not compare with the expressive amber shade of saffron mushroom! The mushroom has a relatively thin leg, lamellar structure of the bottom of the cap, flattened apex with a dent in the middle. But its main difference is color. A basket of saffron mushrooms is just a symbol of golden autumn!
Cooking mushrooms
Like most forest mushrooms, saffron milk need preliminary boiling. Moreover, the broth in which they were cooked is not suitable for further use. So, before frying saffron mushrooms, wash them and brush them, and then lower them into cold water and put on fire. After boiling, boil the mushrooms for at least twenty minutes. Then throw them on a sieve so that all the water in the glass. That's all - mushrooms are ready for further cooking.
Fried mushrooms with potatoes
This dish can rightly be called a masterpiece of Russian cuisine. About how to fry mushrooms with potatoes, they knew in ancient times. Although on the tables of the Slavs, these mushrooms appeared many centuries ago. After importing potatoes and distributing them in Russia, everyone liked the combination of vegetables and mushrooms. So a whole series of wonderful aromatic dishes appeared, where the gifts of the forest and your own garden are combined.
Before frying saffron mushrooms with potatoes, we will prepare all the necessary ingredients. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices. Finely chop the onion. For frying, you can use vegetable oil or pork lard. The potato has a rather long cooking time, so immediately set it to fry in a large pan. When it comes to half-ready, add onions. All this time, pre-cooked saffron mushrooms should stand nearby in a colander and wait for their turn. And their turn will come about 10 minutes before the potatoes are ready. Add mushrooms to the pan, mix thoroughly. What are the proportions of the products? They simply do not exist. Of course, the more mushrooms, the tastier the dish. But even a small handful of mushrooms will give the potato a unique taste and aroma. And to emphasize this combination, the simplest spices will help: black pepper, bay leaf. In the abundance of seasoning, mushrooms, like most forest mushrooms, do not need at all.
How to fry mushrooms with gravy
This simple recipe is designed for a cereal side dish. Ginger must be cut into pieces, boil, strain. Heat oil in a pan. Pour mushrooms into it and fry without a lid. When the moisture evaporates, add onions and a little ghee to the mushrooms. After the onions are ready, when the mushrooms themselves become golden, sprinkle them with flour, mix and add the liquid. It can be ordinary water, vegetable or meat broth. Diluted tomato juice is also suitable. You can spice up the dish with the help of classic soy sauce.
Ginger in sour cream
This delicious dish is worthy of the menu of the best restaurants of Russian cuisine! How to fry saffron mushrooms with sour cream at home? Yes, very easy! It is enough to fry the previously boiled mushrooms with onions, pour in fat sour cream or thick cream and simmer under the lid. It is acceptable to add cheese to sour cream sauce . Only it should be a neutral variety, without acid and a pronounced characteristic taste. Normal Russian will do.
But there is another way. If mushrooms and onions were fried in a cast-iron pan, you can add sour cream, then in the same bowl send the dish to the oven. It will look like cooked in a real Russian oven. Before frying mushrooms, small saffron mushrooms, they do not have to be cut. They will turn out much more beautiful and juicier, being whole. Sour cream sauce does not drain, keeps excellent on mushrooms thanks to their plates. At the end of cooking, chopped fresh herbs can be added to the pot.
Side dish for fried mushrooms
These mushrooms are combined not only with potatoes. They look great on the table in tandem with pea or soya puree. Gravy with saffron mushrooms is well suited to side dishes from chickpeas and beans. Almost everything is combined from cereals with fried saffron mushrooms. Pasta also does not stand aside: horns, homemade noodles, small vermicelli. A wonderful side dish for saffron mushrooms can be prepared from seasonal vegetables: zucchini, eggplant, squash, pepper, carrots. And before frying saffron mushrooms, you should take care of other additions: sauerkraut, barrel tomatoes, lightly salted cucumbers, and vegetable caviar. These snacks emphasize the noble taste and ethnic notes of the dish.