Lubricants, so beloved by many, are a valuable source of protein and many beneficial micronutrients. Like many other forest mushrooms, they are quite simple to prepare. They can be served not only to the table immediately after collection, but also prepared for future use. Tired of old recipes? Consider a couple of new ones. But the classics are worth mentioning, because many do not know how to cook butter.
Preparation for cooking
Forest mushrooms - this is not champignons from the supermarket that you can eat almost raw. Here, special preparation is required. Before cooking oil, they must be thoroughly cleaned, washed and boiled. The boiling time should be at least half an hour. And no mushroom soups! Pour the first broth into the trash - it is completely unsuitable for food.
Fried butter
What to do next? Let's start with the classics. Yes, almost everyone starts with it already - rarely anyone can resist the temptation to immediately fry potatoes with mushrooms, right on that very evening, even despite the tiredness of walking in the forest for a long time.
Discard the boiled mushrooms on a sieve, rinse, let the moisture drain. It is perfectly acceptable to stew together chopped potatoes, and onions, and mushrooms. But if you really want fried potatoes, not stewed potatoes, it is better to cook all the ingredients separately from each other, and to “introduce” them only at the very end of cooking. The proportions of the products here are completely arbitrary and depend only on the number of mushrooms. The more of them, the better, it is clear to everyone. But even a very small handful of "forest beef" (that is what our ancestors called these forest gifts) will turn an ordinary everyday dinner into a real holiday. You should not overdo it with spices. Fragrant oils are quite self-sufficient, and several peas of allspice and a couple of bay leaves are enough to emphasize their taste.
Marinate mushrooms with spices
Why not cook everyone's favorite pickled butter? Pickling recipes (in any case, most of them) are perfect for harvesting for the winter. Product proportions are as follows:
- oil - 3 kg;
- salt - 2.5 tbsp. l .;
- sugar - 2 tsp;
- vegetable oil, can be refined - 1 tbsp. l .;
- vinegar 9% - 80 ml;
- bay leaf - 5 pcs.;
- allspice peas - 7 amount
If desired, a few cloves and a very small pinch of ground nutmeg can be added to the recipe.
To prepare the marinade, boil the boiled mushrooms with clean water, so that it just covers, add all the ingredients, put on fire. Before pickling the butter, do not forget about the jars. We lay out the boiled mushrooms and immediately roll them.
Dried butter
Many housewives prefer to harvest oil for the winter with the help of drying. This method is simple, reliable, and the result is simply wonderful!
How to cook butter for drying? Yes, it’s very simple - wash and chop. And then hang on a string and leave in a draft. Drying time depends on temperature, size of pieces, air flow. Usually 10-14 days are enough. After the oils become dry, they need to be removed from the threads and put away, for example, in clean cans (dry!) Or cotton bags.
Before cooking, such mushrooms must first be boiled!
Mushroom Soup
Those who think how to cook butter in the winter, first of all remember the soup. Frozen and dried mushrooms are suitable for him . And of course, this delicious dish is cooked in the harvest season.
Mushroom puree soups made from boiled vegetables, grated by a blender are very common. As a rule, in the first dish put chopped into small pieces of butter. Soup recipes involve pre-boiling mushrooms.
For cooking, take about 0.5 kg of potatoes, a couple of onions, a small carrot, 2 glasses of cream and boiled mushrooms. Boil the vegetables until cooked, grind to a puree state, add butter and cream, boil. That's all! If desired, you can add greens to such a soup.
Caviar
Leaning hostesses may come in handy and here's a recipe. Mushroom caviar can be added to sauces and gravy, seasoned with porridge, used to make pizza, pancakes and pies, and just spread on bread and serve with garnish.
To prepare the snack, boiled mushrooms are added with fried onions, carrots, fresh garlic and spices. All ingredients are slightly stewed. Grind them best with a grinder with a large mesh.