Frozen porcini mushrooms: how to cook, recipes with photos

Cooking frozen porcini mushrooms is customary in many world cuisines. Members of the boletus family are highly valued in the market for their impressive taste and wonderful aroma of the forest. Experienced mushroom pickers know that a valuable product should be collected from June to October after heavy rains. Porcini mushrooms grow in mixed forests, birch plantations and forest edges, after harvesting the product can be cooked fresh, as well as canned, dried or frozen.

Frozen mushrooms whole and in pieces

What can be cooked from frozen porcini mushrooms

Frozen mushrooms perfectly retain the aroma and taste of a fresh product, you can cook dozens of different independent dishes from them or make porcini mushrooms one of the ingredients of any recipe.

The royal mushroom, namely the so-called white representatives of mushrooms, as a result of heat treatment, can turn into pate, cream soup, spaghetti or potato sauce, roast, julienne, risotto, lasagna, mushroom appetizer or salad.

How to cook dishes from frozen porcini mushrooms

The product must be properly thawed before use. Most often, porcini mushrooms are frozen whole fresh, and they are not even washed. When defrosting, the legs and hats are washed under running water.

Recipes for porcini frozen mushrooms

It is worth considering the most popular dishes based on frozen mushrooms, which can be a decoration for a festive table or a delicious homemade dinner.

Recipe for frozen porcini mushrooms fried in sour cream

You can fry the workpiece in a hot pan with a little sour cream and get an excellent gravy for any side dish. You will need the following ingredients:

• frozen porcini mushrooms – 0,5 kg;
• sour cream of any fat content – 200 g;
• vegetable oil – 40 ml;
• onion – 1 pcs .;
• salt and spices to taste.

Appetizing fried porcini mushrooms in sour cream

Step-by-step cooking process:

1. Rinse the frozen pieces and immediately put them in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry for about 10 minutes until excess water has evaporated.
2. Finely chop the onion and send it to the mushrooms, fry for another 4 minutes, constantly stirring the dish.
3. Pour the mass with sour cream, salt, add any spices, bring to a boil and simmer under the lid for 15 minutes.
4. Serve hot as a gravy with any side dish – potatoes, rice or pasta.

Mushroom soup with frozen porcini mushrooms

Fragrant mushroom soup decorates the dining table at any time of the year, pleases with the taste and benefits of hot broth. In order to prepare a delicious first course, you will need the following products:

• frozen porcini mushrooms – 400 g;
• potatoes – 400 g;
• onion – 2 pcs .;
• carrots – 2 pcs .;
• butter – 50 g;
• parsley greens;
• salt and spices to taste;
• sour cream for serving.

Option to serve hot broth from frozen mushrooms

All ingredients are designed for 2 liters of water. Step by step cooking process:

1. Defrost the main product at room temperature, cut into small cubes.
2. Peel potatoes, wash and cut into even cubes.
3. Peel the carrots, onions, finely chop the vegetables for frying.
4. Take a pan with a thick bottom, melt the butter and add the carrots and onions, fry the vegetables over medium heat.
5. Add prepared mushrooms to the pan, fry together with vegetables until excess moisture evaporates.
6. Pour boiled water into a saucepan, bring the broth to a boil, throw potato cubes into it.
7. Boil the soup over low heat, salt and add any spices.

When serving, sprinkle hot mushroom soup with finely chopped herbs, add a spoonful of sour cream.

Cream soup of frozen porcini mushrooms

Without such a dish, it is difficult to imagine traditional French cuisine. The classic cream soup consists of fragrant wild mushrooms and heavy cream, served hot in separate portions in a deep bowl.

Garnished with fresh herbs or crispy wheat croutons

Ingredients:

• frozen porcini mushrooms – 300 g;
• potatoes – 2 pcs .;
• carrots – 1 pcs .;
• onion – 1 pcs .;
• butter – 40 g;
• cooking cream – 100 ml;
• water – 1,5 l;
• salt, ground black pepper – to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Put a piece of butter in a saucepan with a thick bottom, put on medium heat. Add washed mushrooms, fry until excess water evaporates.
2. Finely chop the onion and carrots, fry for about 15 minutes.
3. Peel the potatoes, cut into small pieces, lower into the pan.
4. Pour in hot water, boil until the potatoes are ready.
5. Cool the mass slightly, beat with a blender until smooth, then dilute with cooking cream and heat, but do not boil.
6. Pour the finished cream soup into portioned bowls and garnish with fresh herbs, serve hot.

Roasted White Mushrooms

Meals based on a nutritious and valuable forest product can become the basis of the diet during fasting. The following recipe has no meat ingredients, only fresh vegetables and healthy frozen mushrooms. You will need the following products:

• frozen mushrooms – 500 g;
• fresh or frozen green peas – 300 g;
• potatoes – 5 pcs .;
• onion – 1 pcs .;
• salt and spices to taste;
• lettuce leaves for serving.

Roast option

Step-by-step cooking process:

1. Send frozen pieces of the main ingredient to a hot frying pan, fry until excess moisture evaporates.
2. Send coarsely chopped onions to the pan, fry for about 5 minutes. Transfer the mass to a clean plate.
3. In the same pan, fry large potato wedges until golden brown.
4. Combine mushrooms with potatoes, add green peas and simmer under the lid until tender. Salt the dish and serve hot, garnished with lettuce or fresh herbs.

Spaghetti with frozen porcini mushrooms

Pasta with white mushroom sauce is not as simple a dish as it seems. It is important to observe a few nuances – do not overcook the pasta, do not boil the sauce and do not drown the pasta in excess liquid. To prepare spaghetti with a special sauce in the best traditions of Mediterranean cuisine, you will need the following ingredients:

• frozen porcini mushrooms – 200 g;
• pasta paste – 150 g;
• onion – 1 pcs .;
• olive oil – 30 ml;
• butter – 30 g;
• cooking cream – 130 ml;
• salt and black pepper – to taste;
• Provence herbs – to taste;
• a bunch of fresh herbs.

Pasta with white sauce

Step-by-step cooking process:

1. Send both types of oil to a hot pan, fry finely chopped onion until golden brown.
2. Add mushrooms frozen in large pieces to the onion, fry for about 5 minutes, during which time excess moisture will evaporate.
3. Pour in heavy cooking cream in a thin stream, stirring constantly.
4. In a separate saucepan, boil pasta in salted water with a pinch of Provence herbs.
5. Remove the pasta from the pan with a fork and add to the mushroom sauce. Stir the dish and leave on low heat without a lid for a couple of minutes.
6. Serve the finished pasta in white sauce in portions, sprinkled with finely chopped herbs.

Minced frozen porcini mushrooms

Frozen semi-finished products

Lenten cutlets or zrazy are successfully prepared from minced mushrooms, it can be frozen in advance or cooked from whole mushrooms freshly taken out of the freezer.

The product must immediately be thrown into boiling water, boiled for about 2 minutes and allowed to drain on a sieve.

Scroll the cooled porcini mushrooms through a meat grinder, cook delicious lean meatballs, zrazy or pie filling from them.

Stewed potatoes with frozen porcini mushrooms

Wonderful forest mushrooms do not have to be part of some gourmet haute cuisine dish. A significant protein content allows you to replace meat with mushrooms in any form in recipes.

Stewed potatoes with fragrant mushrooms

• potatoes – 0,5 kg;
• mushrooms – 400 g;
• onion – 1 pcs .;
• bay leaf – 1 pcs .;
• a bunch of fresh herbs;
• salt and spices to taste.

Step-by-step cooking process:

1. Boil frozen mushrooms in salted water for about 7 minutes, drain.
2. Peel potatoes and onions, chop vegetables randomly.
3. Lay the mushrooms, onions and potatoes in layers in a cauldron, duckling or a saucepan with a thick bottom, add a little vegetable oil and water from the mushrooms.
4. Simmer over low heat under a lid until the potatoes are ready, serve hot with fresh herbs.

Calorie content of frozen porcini mushrooms 

100 g of frozen porcini mushrooms contains only 23 kcal, which is less than the fresh product.

Proteins – 2,7 g;

Carbohydrates – 0,9 g;

Fat – 1 g.

Conclusion

You can cook delicious frozen porcini mushrooms at least every day according to different recipes. Soup for the first or hearty second course will always turn out to be original, tasty and fragrant thanks to the juicy pulp of the forest king.