Mushrooms are perhaps the most widely used mushrooms available to any housewife . Champignons are sold in every major store; they can be found on the shelves with vegetables and fruits. Due to its availability, this mushroom has become an integral part of the diet of any Russian family. Besides the fact that champignons are delicious, they are considered the safest, as they are grown in special conditions without the risk of accumulation of heavy metals and other harmful substances in them.
Methods for making champignons
There are many ways to make champignons. A variety of dishes from these mushrooms are often on our tables, and even how to fry mushrooms in a pan is not a secret for any housewife. These mushrooms make an excellent julienne, you can make delicious soup from them, you can add champignons in the salad and in the vegetable side dish. They are boiled, fried and stewed. And you can eat even fresh, without prior heat treatment.
How to grow champignons
It is possible to grow these mushrooms even at home, but more often, of course, farms are engaged in this. In the warm season, champignons can be grown in the open ground, in winter and early spring, mushrooms grow well in warm cellars, greenhouses, cellars and greenhouses. There are even special mushrooms, in which a nutrient substrate from manure and straw is placed, special fertilizers are applied, lighting is installed and watering is organized. Caring for growing mushrooms requires skill and attention, since a special temperature must be maintained, the frequency of feeding and other subtleties must be observed.
How to choose fresh mushrooms in the store
Currently, finding fresh champignons is not a big deal. These mushrooms are available for purchase in almost any chain store, on shelves with vegetables. Choose fresh white mushrooms, not dry, without wrinkles and blemishes. Much depends on the degree of freshness of the mushrooms: how much to fry the mushrooms so that they do not lose their beautiful appearance, how long it will take to stew them and how tasty the cooked dish will turn out. Therefore, we do not recommend purchasing mushrooms that look unattractive in appearance; it is better to look for fresh ones in another store.
The most common cooking methods
Most often, housewives prefer toast mushrooms. How much to fry mushrooms in a pan depends on which dish is chosen for cooking. If mushrooms are needed for a salad, then they should be fried for 20-30 minutes, over low heat, with a small addition of oil, until all excess moisture has evaporated and the pieces become elastic and dry. For some dishes, you should leave the champignons half-prepared in order to attach other ingredients to them and bring them to readiness all together.
Raw Salad Vegetable Salad
You can make a salad of fresh tomatoes, bell peppers and onions, season it with oil and add thinly sliced, certainly the freshest raw champignons. To prepare such a salad, you do not need to think about how much to fry fresh mushrooms, monitor the degree of their readiness and worry about the appearance of the salad. This method is suitable if you urgently need to come up with a light, beautiful and tasty dish, when the guests are already on the doorstep and there is absolutely no time to cook.
Champignon julienne
A very tasty dish, traditional for large feasts and holidays, is Julien, with a fragrant beautiful crust and creamy appetizing texture.
To prepare it you will need:
- 500-600 grams of champignons;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- 50-70 ml of fat sour cream;
- 3 tablespoons of butter;
- some flour and salt.
Fresh mushrooms should be washed well, remove dirt and cut mushrooms into small cubes. Melt the butter in a very hot pan and add the mushrooms. How much time to fry mushrooms, their color will tell. They need to be constantly stirred and, not allowing overdrying, bring to a golden color. Cooking will take from 15 to 30 minutes.
In another pan, fry the flour, add sour cream to it, bring to a boil. Get a sauce for Julien.
Next, transfer the champignons to the cocotte, pour the sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese and cook in a preheated oven until golden brown.
Mushroom soup
There are a lot of recipes for mushroom soup. The simplest recipe for champignon soup does not imply their preliminary frying, mushrooms are simply chopped and sent to a pot of boiling water. When they are almost ready, potatoes, fried onions and carrots, salt and spices are added. If the hostess intends to cook a more complex soup, and she knows how much to fry fresh mushrooms, we recommend preparing mushroom soup from dried porcini mushrooms, with the addition of our favorite mushrooms and millet. In this case, it is necessary to pre-soak the dried mushrooms, bring all the ingredients to a half-preparedness in boiling water and only then add the mushrooms. The soup will be more aromatic and tasty if finely chopped greens and a tablespoon of sour cream are added to it before serving.
How to make champignons crispy
The following recipe is useful to every lover of mushrooms. It will be useful for any housewife to learn how to fry mushrooms, so that they become crispy and golden, so that the dishes are not only tasty, but also beautiful. To do this, it is necessary to closely monitor the cooking process and add a little flour to the mushrooms at the end of frying, which will absorb excess moisture and create a crispy, appetizing crust. Fried champignons will be a great addition to spaghetti, rice, and mashed potatoes.
Mushrooms fried with potatoes
Who doesn’t like such a simple but tasty dish like fried mushrooms and potatoes? If it’s winter outside and you can’t get fresh forest mushrooms - mushrooms fry time! Of course, they do not have such a bright aroma as, for example, porcini mushrooms, but are quite suitable for this dish.
Cooking fried mushrooms with potatoes is very simple. They must be washed, cut into large pieces and put in a pre-heated pan with vegetable oil. Half-cooked champignons can be added with chopped onions. When the mushrooms are ready, chopped potatoes are sent to the pan and fried until cooked. At the end of cooking, you can add garlic, herbs and black pepper.
Mushrooms Stewed Vegetables
It is very simple to cook a vegetable side dish with the addition of champignons. This dish can be stewed, baked or fried in a pan. Mushrooms should be ready before adding to vegetables, and we already talked about how to fry champignons until crisp. The most useful is a side dish cooked in the oven. A very delicious dish of champignons is obtained on the grill, with preliminary pickling of mushrooms in a mixture of sour cream, mayonnaise, herbs and garlic.
Buckwheat porridge with fried mushrooms and onions
A very tasty dish is buckwheat porridge, cooked with fried onions and mushrooms. Such a dish will appeal to fasting and vegans, since it does not contain animal products.
To prepare you will need:
- 1.5 cups of buckwheat;
- 400 grams of fresh champignons;
- 2 large onions;
- vegetable oil;
- salt and spices to taste.
Rinse buckwheat well and sort out. Transfer to a pan, add 3 cups of cold water, a little salt and keep on low heat until cooked.
Wash the mushrooms well, remove dirt and cut into cubes. Add vegetable oil, salt to a pre-heated frying pan, put mushrooms and bring to readiness. About how to fry mushrooms to a crisp, it was already described above. Ready mushrooms should be combined with buckwheat porridge and mix gently.
Cut onions into cubes and sauté until golden brown with the addition of salt and spices, add to the porridge.
Serve buckwheat porridge with fried mushrooms and onions should be hot, you can decorate it with herbs.
Enjoy your meal!