A podberezovik - widely spread onthe territory of Russia, a mushroom that has excellent taste qualities and contains a lot of nutrients - vitamins (B, D, E, C) and minerals (phosphorus, etc.).
There are different types of fungus, but the largestis a brown caper. You can learn it from a convex pillow-shaped hat that has a different coloring - gray, brown or brown. The foot of the fungus is usually long, slightly thickening downwards, usually a light white-gray hue. The flesh does not change color on the cut, it is dense in structure and white. A podberezovik is considered one of the most delicious mushrooms, used for food in fresh, dried, fried, marinated. How to clean podberezoviki - read in our article. Also we will tell you how to process and prepare these excellent mushrooms.
If you have collected or bought such mushrooms andThey brought them home, then you should start cleaning as soon as possible. The thing is that the pads are not stored for a long time in a crude form and quickly deteriorate. Processing mushrooms should be according to where they were collected, what kind of contamination they have. For example, birch bark, collected in a clean forest with a large bed of moss and leaves, as a rule, do not need serious treatment. Usually they are quite clean, so it's only necessary to clean the head and bottom of the stalk a little, remove the stuck leaves and other debris, and also make sure that the balsam is not wormy, having cut the flesh.
If you want to keep thefreezer, they must first be boiled in salted water twice for 20 minutes. You can also dry these mushrooms for the winter. Make it easy with the oven. Preheat oven to 150 ° C, cut off the legs from the hats, place them on the baking tray separately from each other. Leave them for an hour, lowering the temperature to 120 ° C. After that, make a minimal fire and dry for about 6 hours. Readiness of mushrooms can be determined by the brittleness of the cap. Keep this blank in a paper bag in a cool, dark place.
What to do with poderezozikov yet? In addition to drying and freezing, you can fry mushrooms or make a fragrant soup from them. They are so tasty that any dish will turn out to be perfect!