Only novice mushroom pickers are afraid to collect rows, believing that they are inedible. However, this is completely in vain, since these are completely edible fruiting bodies, from which you can cook a wide variety of dishes, including preparations for the winter.
Today we will talk about the simplest option for harvesting mushrooms for the winter – freezing. Is it possible to freeze rows, 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 rowan mushrooms for freezing?
However, before freezing rows for the winter, they must first be cleaned. First you need to remove all the forest debris from the hats that has stuck to them, and cut off the lower part of the leg.
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Mushrooms are placed in the freezer and taken out only when you need to cook one of them. So, freezing a row is very easy, even a novice hostess will cope with this process.
If you want to make soup from such mushrooms or just fry them, then the frozen rows are simply laid out in soup or in a heated pan. You don’t have to worry, the taste of the dish will not suffer from such actions, and besides, you will save a lot of time.
It is worth saying that the rows 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 off and put them in a basket. The fact is that rows contain many useful substances and trace elements: zinc, manganese, copper and B vitamins. To keep all these vitamins in mushrooms, you need to know how to properly freeze rows for the winter.
No matter how you freeze the fruiting bodies, they must be fresh, clean and dense. Which mushrooms are frozen will determine their quality and appearance after thawing. Therefore, young, strong and whole mushrooms are considered ideal.
As you can see, boiled rows are the best option for freezing, since 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 told you how to clean the row. Now let’s talk about how much you need to cook them. The first time, the mushrooms are boiled for 10 minutes, thrown into a sieve or colander and put back into boiling water, but with the addition of salt. Boil for 20 minutes, take out, rinse, lay out on a kitchen towel to dry. Only after that they are distributed in plastic containers and put in the freezer.
Knowing how to freeze row mushrooms, every housewife will carry out this process with pleasure.