Marinating oyster mushrooms at home

Mushrooms have long been popular with s. They are fried, and also salted, marinated for the winter. Most often these are forest “inhabitants” or champignons. Blanks are used to make salads, bake pies with them, cook pizza. But recently, the eyes of fans of mushroom snacks have been turned to oyster mushrooms. They are delicious fried and boiled, but they acquire a special taste in pickled form.

Many of our readers are interested in how to pickle oyster mushrooms at home. It should be noted that pickling does not cause much trouble, the process itself is not much different from the usual technology for preparing mushrooms.

About useful properties

Before pickling oyster mushrooms at home for the winter, you need to know something about them:

1. These mushrooms have beneficial properties, as they contain a large amount of protein.
2. The presence of iodine, calcium, iron and potassium have a beneficial effect on the human body.
3. The fruiting body of the fungus, with constant use, reduces bad cholesterol, removes toxins from the body, and normalizes blood pressure.

Selection rules

If you decide to cook pickled oyster mushrooms at home, carefully read our tips for choosing them:

1. You need to pickle young oyster mushrooms, they contain useful substances and vitamins. You can determine the age by color: in young mushrooms, the color is gray, and in old ones, yellowness is noticeable.
2. When buying fruiting bodies in a store, give preference to small-sized mushrooms.
3. Mushrooms suitable for pickling should be smooth, with edges, without cracks and yellow spots. If the mushrooms are fresh, then the color of the broken cap will be white.
4. You need to pay attention to elasticity and density. Loose and crumbling fruiting bodies are unsuitable for harvesting.
5. The presence of an unpleasant odor is an indicator of stale mushrooms.

Preparation for pickling

Pickled oyster mushrooms at home are considered by many s to be the best option for harvesting for the winter. Despite heat treatment, mushrooms retain all their beneficial properties. In addition, by absorbing the spices from the marinade, they become tastier and more aromatic.

Before picking oyster mushrooms at home, you need to get acquainted with the rules for preparing them for the process:

1. First, separate the mushrooms one by one.
2. Secondly, inspect each fruiting body: the slightest damage must be removed.
3. Thirdly, cut off the legs to the mushroom itself.
4. Fourth, wipe the surface of the hat with a dry cloth.

Options for pickled oyster mushrooms

There are many recipes for pickling oyster mushrooms, they differ in the use of various spices, but the technology for preparing the blank for the winter is almost the same.

Classic marinating recipe

I would like to note that many housewives are still distrustful of oyster mushrooms and prefer other mushrooms, including champignons, for pickling at home. We really hope that by making a small preparation for testing, this bias will disappear, and the mushrooms themselves will become an important component of the diet.

For a classic recipe for pickled oyster mushrooms for the winter at home for 2 kilograms of mushrooms, you will need:

• one liter of warm water;
• 100 ml of table vinegar 9%;
• 6 peas of black and allspice;
• 8 cloves;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 5 bay leaves;
• 120 grams of non-iodized salt;
• 30 grams of granulated sugar;
• a teaspoon of dill seeds.

Pickling technology

To prepare pickled oyster mushrooms at home according to the classic recipe, fruiting bodies do not need to be boiled in advance. They are needed raw. After wiping, large hats can be cut.

Cooking steps:

1. We put the mushrooms in an enameled pan, pour in water and lay all the spices indicated in the recipe. Before that, cut each clove of garlic in half. Add table vinegar at the end of cooking.
2. We mix the contents and begin to cook on the strongest fire. From the first minutes, the aroma of mushrooms will spill over the kitchen.
3. After boiling, reduce the temperature to a minimum and cook for a quarter of an hour.
4. Pour in the vinegar, stir again and cook for 10 minutes.

We lay out hot in jars, adding marinade to the top. Can be covered with plastic lids, screw caps or rolled up with tin caps. For storage in a cool place, pickled mushrooms are removed after cooling. Although the dish is so tasty that oyster mushrooms cooked in small quantities are eaten instantly.

Recipe with lemon

Using the recommendations, you can cook mushrooms both for direct consumption and preserve for winter storage.

So, stock up in advance with the following ingredients:

• one kilogram of mushrooms;
• two cloves of garlic;
• juice squeezed from half a lemon;
• clove buds, allspice or black peppercorns (add to your taste);
• vegetable oil – 50 grams;
• two tablespoons of 9% vinegar;
• one bulb.

How to cook

1. We clean and wipe the mushrooms, cut them. We free the onion and garlic from the upper scales, rinse thoroughly and cut: the onion into half rings, and the garlic into slices.
2. Pour half a liter of water into the container, immediately salt, oil, lemon juice, chopped garlic. Let’s cook the marinade.
3. As soon as it boils, spread the mushrooms, add pepper and clove buds. If you like the taste of mushrooms with lavrushka, you can add one leaf.

   

4. We cook oyster mushrooms in the marinade for a quarter of an hour, after which we lay the onion and garlic, pour in the vinegar. Stir the marinated mushrooms and remove from the stove after 5 minutes.

Using this recipe for pickling oyster mushrooms, in a quarter of an hour you can treat your family to your culinary masterpiece. Take my word for it, no one will refuse a delicious dish.

To save pickled oyster mushrooms for the winter, lay them out immediately after removing them from the stove in pre-sterilized jars and roll them up. Keep cool and dark.

Korean version of marinating

Many people love spicy and spicy mushrooms. Therefore, the recipe we offer is the best solution. In the Korean version of pickled oyster mushrooms, which can be prepared for the winter, in addition to mushrooms, carrots are also used. Moreover, you can treat your family with such a dish immediately after preparation.

There are many ingredients, but they are all available:

• fresh mushrooms – 1 kg 500 grams;
• carrots – 2 pieces;
• 100 grams of table vinegar and vegetable refined oil;
• 6 cloves of garlic;
• Korean seasoning for vegetables;
• 1 teaspoon ground coriander
• half a teaspoon of red hot and black ground pepper;
• 2 teaspoons of salt;
• 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar.

Getting Started

You need to pickle oyster mushrooms at home for the winter without legs, since they are not suitable for canning.

And now about the cooking process itself:

1. Mushrooms cut into strips and put to cook for a quarter of an hour.
2. We wash the carrots, remove the peel and rub on a Korean grater.
3. Mince the garlic with a crusher.
4. We select oyster mushrooms with a slotted spoon in a colander and cool.
5. Combine the cooled mushrooms with carrots and garlic, add the rest of the ingredients, mix.
6. We set aside a container with canned fruiting bodies for 6 hours, so that they are infused and soaked with spices. Then we take sterile jars and fill them to the top. You can marinate oyster mushrooms according to a Korean recipe only by sterilization.
7. Put the jars covered with lids in a saucepan with cold water, bring to a boil and cook for half an hour. To prevent the jars from bursting, put a thick towel on the bottom of the pan. We immediately roll up the lids, put the cooled mushrooms in storage.

It turns out amazingly tasty and appetizing. It can be served immediately after cooking, as an independent dish or as a side dish for potatoes, rice. On the festive table, pickled oyster mushrooms will also come in handy.

In this video, another option for pickling oyster mushrooms:

Conclusion

As you can see, pickling oyster mushrooms is not so difficult. Even novice hostesses, if they follow our recommendations, will completely cope with canning.

The main thing is to buy or grow young oyster mushrooms on your own. We wish you successful preparations for the winter and a variety of culinary delights on your table.