How to freeze chanterelles

Low-calorie mushrooms of chanterelles are distinguished by a pleasant aroma and unsurpassed taste. Do you like these mushrooms and want to make stocks for the winter? Try not to marine forest gifts, but freeze. Frozen chanterelles are stored in the freezer to four months, and you will always have a delicious addition to any dishes.

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How to prepare for freezing chanterelles

Consider than before you frozen the collected mushrooms, the more useful properties they retain. Preparation is as follows:

• Thrick chanterelles and sort. Choose for freezing young, strong mushrooms of a small magnitude. Chervichi, dry and spoiled forest fruits are not suitable for reserves for the winter in the freezer.
• Clean forest gifts from garbage. Remove the Earth and all the dirt.
• Rinse foxes in running water. If you freeze raw - you can just wipe with a damp cloth. No need mushrooms.
• Shoot the washed mushrooms on a sieve or colander and wait until the water is fully stroke.
• Encloule forest gifts on the towel and dry a little.

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Freeze raw chanterelles

The easiest method of freezing:

1. The degraded mushrooms spread on a tray, a kitchen board for separating products or a flat plate with one layer and put in the freezer for 12 hours.
2. Then take them out and decompose into plastic bags or clean plastic containers.
3. Do not store forest gifts for a long time with the freezing method, they may have bitterness.

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Freeze boiled chanterelles

Boiling helps to remove bitterness in mushrooms. Cut on parts of large instances. Freezing method:

• Pour water into a pan with such a calculation so that it has more than twice than mushrooms.
• Put a saucepan on the stove and boil the water.
• Add 1-2 teaspoons of salt by 1 kg of chanterelles into water. Place the forest gifts in boiling water.
• Cook mushrooms for 7-10 minutes. Remove with a spoonful of a dirty film that appears on the surface of the water.
• Get the forest gifts from the pan colander and rinse under the crane with cold water.
• Spread on paper napkins or drying towel. If the mushrooms do not dry well, the excess water in the freezer becomes ice. There is nothing wrong with that, but the appearance of the product becomes unsightly.
• Dry mushrooms put in bags and put in the freezer.

Please note that too long for chanterelles can not cook. They lose their fragrance in boiling water and useful properties.

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Freeze fried chanterelles

1. For frying, any mushrooms are suitable for frying, only the worms will throw away.
2. Cut the pieces prepared by the mushrooms and fire with vegetable oil on a frying pan for twenty minutes. Darabo in initially no need.
3. See that all liquid evaporates from the frying pan, and rummy crust formed on the fungi.
4. Do not take fats instead of oil, with this method of frying chanterelles can be stored no more than one month.
5. Do not add spices and seasonings.
6. Lay out fried forest gifts on a paper towel, and let be cooled.
7. It remains to decompose the chanterelles on packages or to another container, and send it to storage in the freezer.

Do not re-freeze chanterelles. Use all mushrooms from one package for cooking. From frozen chanterelles can cook soup, add them to salads or put out with potatoes.