Which of us does not like to eat tasty food? Honey cake is a great way to satisfy your hunger. This dish can also be served on the festive table. The recipe for its preparation is quite simple. The only difficulty you may encounter while cooking this dish is the choice of ingredients. It is very important with all responsibility to approach the selection of mushrooms. In our article, we will consider not only the honey cake and its recipe, but also how to choose the right ingredients, namely mushrooms.
How to choose mushrooms?
Honey mushrooms are one of the most common mushrooms that are used in cooking. But, like all others, you must be able to choose honey mushrooms even in the woods, even on the shelves of the store.
After all, spoiled mushrooms can cause the body the same harm as poisonous ones. You can pick mushrooms in the forest only if you are a mushroom picker with many years of experience, well, or go in search of them with a person in whose competence you are absolutely sure.
When buying, you must also be confident in the seller. Consider the main signs of a quality mushroom. First of all, you need to pay attention to the leg of the mushroom. On it at the very base should be a "skirt". In the false fungus, it is absent. Real honey mushrooms have a pronounced mushroom aroma. False, on the contrary, has a putrid unpleasant odor giving off by the earth.
On the hat of the original mushrooms there are "scales". False mushroom hat is absolutely smooth.
There are also color differences. In a false mushroom, it is pronounced. The inside of the hat is greenish and unhealthy. While a real mushroom has a muted beige color, and the hat on the inside has plates.
Mushrooms also have characteristic differences in taste, but it is better not to reach this point.
If you decide to buy honey mushrooms in a store or in the market, pay attention to their general condition. The surface of the fungus should be without visible damage. Also, they should not be dark spots, mold or rot.
How to choose pickled mushrooms in the store?
You decided to make a pie with honey mushrooms, but you didn’t have them at home, but you don’t have the opportunity to buy fresh ones at the store, and the mushroom season is long over? There is always the opportunity to go to the nearest market and buy pickled mushrooms. It would seem that it could be easier than buying ready-made canned goods. But in this case, you must have minimal knowledge in order not to buy a spoiled product. First, pickled mushrooms should only be stored in glass containers, through which it will be possible to examine the condition of the product. All mushrooms should be the same size. Real honey mushrooms have a pale brown color. If the mushrooms in the jar are bright brown, then most likely it is an artificially bred Chinese mushroom that does not have any beneficial properties. The marinade should be liquid and transparent. And, of course, it is always necessary to pay attention to the expiration date and to ensure that the container does not have any damage.
Harm and benefit of honey mushrooms
Before you decide to make a pie with honey mushrooms, you should familiarize yourself with their useful and harmful qualities in order to understand whether you want to feed your family such a dish or better to refrain.
Honey mushrooms contain a large number of useful trace elements and vitamins. As in any other mushroom, they have a large amount of protein, which is well absorbed by the body, unlike what is in meat.
Due to the high potassium content, honey mushrooms are very useful for the thyroid gland.
It is good to use these mushrooms to people who suffer from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and anemia.
Honey mushrooms are a low-calorie product, but very nutritious. You can eat them without fear that you can get better. It is very good to use this product for people who are on a diet, or during fasting. They contain a large amount of nutrients that can replace a complete meat diet.
Since honey mushrooms have a lot of calcium, they have a tonic effect on the whole body, especially on hair, bones and nails. In addition, they have a positive effect on the cardiovascular system.
Like any other product, mushrooms have their contraindications.
If you prepare a pie with honey mushrooms, not following the technology, then you risk being in a hospital with severe poisoning.
The first signs of poisoning are nausea and dizziness. In this case, you must immediately call an ambulance. Drink activated charcoal before her arrival.
Pie with honey mushrooms. Recipe with photo
Essential Ingredients:
- 1 kg of honey mushrooms;
- puff pastry - one pack;
- 100 g of sour cream;
- 2 medium onions.
Cooked mushrooms boil over low heat for about 20 minutes, then fry them with finely chopped onions in sunflower oil. At the end of cooking for mushrooms with onions, add sour cream. Salt and pepper to taste. Tomim it all for 10 minutes.
Roll out the dough and spread on a baking sheet. We spread the mushroom filling on the dough and cover it with a second layer of dough. We fasten the edges with our fingers. In a preheated oven up to 180 degrees, we send our cake, pre-lubricating it with egg yolk. Do not forget to pierce the top layer of the dough with a fork to remove excess moisture. Bake the cake for no more than 40 minutes.
Pie with honey mushrooms and potatoes
To make such a cake, we use puff pastry. You can cook it yourself or buy it in the store ready. For the filling, we take 300 g of honey mushrooms, 400 g of potatoes, 150 g of hard cheese and 2 onions.
For the filling, we cut the onions into strips, mushrooms into slices, we also cut the potatoes, the cheese should be grated.
We grease the form in which we plan to bake the pie with vegetable oil or cover it with parchment paper. We lay the dough and lay the filling on it in layers. If desired, the dough can be greased with a thin layer of sour cream. Now we spread the mushrooms, put the onion potatoes on top. Each layer do not forget to pepper and salt. Grease the top of the pie again with sour cream and only then sprinkle with cheese. We send the cake for half an hour to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.
The recipe for cooking potato pie with honey mushrooms is pretty simple. The main thing is to choose and prepare mushrooms correctly in order to avoid poisoning.