How to freeze rowing mushrooms for the winter
Today we will talk about the simplest option of harvesting mushrooms for the winter - freezing. Is it possible to freeze the rowers, which are considered conditionally edible mushrooms? It is possible, however, this is done only with boiled rows, as they have a bitter taste.
How much do you need to cook row mushrooms for freezing?
However, before freezing rowing for the winter, they must first be cleaned. First you need to remove all the forest debris that has stuck on them from the hats and cut off the lower part of the leg.
Then the mushrooms are washed in a large amount of water, removed, allowed to drain and introduced into boiling salted water.
Boil for 30 minutes, lay in a colander, give time to drain, and lay on a kitchen towel.
After the rowers are thoroughly dried, put on a tray and put in the freezer. After cooking, some housewives immediately distribute the rows in food containers or plastic bags.
Mushrooms are laid in the freezer and removed only when you need to cook any of them. So, freezing rowing is very easy, even a novice housewife will cope with this process.
If you want to make soup from such mushrooms or just fry them, then frozen rows are simply spread in the soup or in a heated frying pan. You can not worry, the taste of the dish from such actions will not suffer, and in addition, you will save a lot of time.
It is worth saying that rowers are not very popular, as many are afraid to collect them, thinking that they are poisonous mushrooms. However, experienced mushroom pickers, having found these fruiting bodies in the forest, will definitely cut them and put them in the basket. The fact is that the rows contain many useful substances and microelements: zinc, manganese, copper and B vitamins. To keep all these vitamins in mushrooms, you need to know how to freeze rowings for the winter.
No matter how you freeze the fruiting bodies, they should be fresh, clean and firm. From what mushrooms are frozen, their quality and appearance after defrosting will depend. Therefore, young, strong and whole mushrooms are considered ideal.
As you can see, the best option for freezing is boiled rowing, as boiling in salted water relieves them of bitterness. Then the question arises: how much to cook row mushrooms for freezing?
At the beginning of the article we talked about how to clean the row. Now let's talk about how much you need to cook them. The mushrooms are boiled for the first time for 10 minutes, put on a sieve or colander and again placed in boiling water, but with the addition of salt. Cook for 20 minutes, take out, rinse, lay on a kitchen towel to dry. Only after this is distributed in plastic containers and placed in the freezer.
Knowing how to freeze row mushrooms, each housewife will conduct this process with pleasure.
