Fresh mushrooms are not always at hand, from which you can cook a lot of mouth-watering and vitamin-rich dishes. If possible, they can be replaced with a dried analogue. Dried mushrooms, when stored properly, are harvested for future use and used as necessary. In order for a dish of such products to turn out tasty, you need to follow some simple rules. How to cook dried mushrooms? This will be discussed in this article.
A feature of this harvest of mushrooms is the lack of processing using water. In another way, they are not washed. Therefore, the first thing to do is rinse them thoroughly under water to remove dirt, dust, sand and other debris.
Next, dried mushrooms should be soaked in water, to which a little salt has been added. Experts recommend holding them in the water longer so that they become softer. You can leave them in this form for the night.
After this, you need to carefully remove the mushrooms from the container. If done carefully, trash will remain at the bottom. Therefore, it is not recommended to simply drain the water. Then the mushrooms should be placed in a pan and filled with water. Cooking time varies by type. For example, porcini mushrooms cook for about 40 minutes, and the rest for about one hour. A little salt should also be added to the pan. After that, they can be consumed in various dishes.
To prepare the soup, you need to take about one and a half glasses of dried porcini mushrooms. Usually, they take 10 times more dried product than fresh (in grams). Pre-soak the mushrooms in water. Further, if they are large, cut them into pieces of the desired size. We put the container for cooking soup on the fire and pour water. When it boils, put the mushrooms in the pan. Add to them the root of parsley and celery, carrots and onions. Vegetables can be put whole or chopped into large pieces. Cook dried mushrooms with vegetables for about 30 minutes.
In the meantime, you can start preparing other ingredients. Take another onion and chop finely. We also do it with carrots. We pass these vegetables with the addition of vegetable oil until a golden color is obtained. 3-4 medium-sized potatoes should be peeled and cut into thin strips.
Next, remove vegetables from the broth with which dried mushrooms were cooked. We spread fried ingredients, chopped potatoes in it. If desired, put a bay leaf and salt, pepper.
When all the ingredients are almost ready, you need to pour about 70 grams of thin vermicelli. If desired, you can use any cereal (rice, barley). In this case, they need to be put a little earlier. You can not use this ingredient at all. In this case, you get mushroom soup with vegetables, which should be put more. Sometimes boiled mushrooms are pulled out of the pan and added to the fried vegetables (onions and carrots). After a short frying, put everything in a pan. At the last moment, finely chopped parsley and dill are poured into the soup. After that, the fire is turned off. This dish must be allowed to stand for 10 minutes. After that, it can be served.
Thinking about how much to cook dried mushrooms, you need to consider the time of soaking them. Any product can be digested and then it will look unaesthetic.