This bright, truly autumnal due to its color fungus in Europe is valued on a par with truffles, and in Russia it is strongly underestimated. Soups based on it are almost never made, and they are rarely used for drying. The most correct preparation of mushrooms chanterelles, according to professionals - frying or stewing under sour cream. How to do it?
How to cook chanterelles
These mushrooms are simple in primary processing, because the quinomania contained in them creates a kind of protective barrier that does not allow worms and insects to pass through. In the process of collecting, too, problems do not arise: rottenness for chanterelles is a rarity, and after transportation they retain their shape. However, some steps to prepare the product for the culinary experiments will have to be done:
- Put the mushrooms in a large bowl, pour water, rinse. Rinse them preferably 4-5 times, changing the water completely, and then drop the chanterelles on the grate.
- Remove the ends of the legs to get rid of the bitterness.
- Again pick up the mushrooms, pour cold water. Instead, you can use milk - so the mushrooms will be more gentle. Leave them for a couple of hours.
After the product has undergone initial processing, the owner is faced with the question - how to prepare chanterell mushrooms? Professionals give a clear answer: it's best to fry them. The finished product will become an ideal side dish, a salad or snack component. However, before you figure out how to fry the chanterelles, you need to attend to their preliminary heat treatment.
How much to cook chanterelles before frying
The amount of time spent for this procedure depends on the method of cooking: it can be carried out on a stove, microwave or multivark. Some housewives even use a pressure cooker and a steamer. In any case, you can cook the product in 20 minutes or less. Consider that if you want to keep the original color, you need to dissolve a little citric acid in the water.
General scheme of actions for the most common methods:
- On the slab. Put the mushrooms in a large enamel saucepan with boiling water( 1: 2 ratio).Periodically removing the foam, cook at an average power of 20 minutes.
- Using a microwave. Pour chanterelles into a pan for a microwave, cover with water, cover. At maximum power they are cooked about 17-18 minutes.
- With the help of multivarkers. Put mushrooms in a bowl, add water. Set the "baking" mode, cook for 20 minutes.
- Steamer. The bottom container is filled with water, and the chanterelles( top) are arranged in a lattice( top).Prepare them will be in 15-16 minutes.
How to fry the chanterelles
Some housewives prefer not to pre-cook the mushrooms, so they roast the raw product. In such a situation, they are poured into a frying pan, being guided by the fact that heat treatment will reduce them in size. The very process of frying begins on low heat and passes the stage of evaporation of the liquid, which takes about a quarter of an hour. After that, they can be subjected to full extinguishing or roasting to crust, adding oil, spices and other ingredients if you have a difficult dish.
In sour cream with onion
This classic simple dish, which can be cooked in an hour, often appears on the table in late summer. To fried mushrooms you can serve fresh vegetable salad or make a garnish of pasta, short horns. The list of ingredients is very simple:
- chanterelles - 0.5 kg;
- thick sour cream - half glass;
- bulb;
- salt;
- butter.
How to cook chanterelles in sour cream without boiling? The scheme is as follows:
- Rinse the mushrooms, remove 1/3 of the leg from below. Soak for an hour.
- Too large pieces cut.
- Pour into a hot frying pan and butter. Cook under the lid until chanterelles are allowed to juice.
- Add half a cup of water. Stew for 20 minutes.
- Salt, stir, and insert a chopped onion.
- After a quarter of an hour add the sour cream, mix again. Tom tomt another 10-15 minutes.
In sour-garlic sauce with greens
Such a recipe can be considered an alternative to the previous one. The amount of sour cream here is increased to form a gentle sauce covering every mushroom piece. The onions are removed and replaced with garlic, and the greens give a fresh taste and an attractive look to the dish. The set of ingredients is as follows:
- chanterelle - 450 g;
- sour cream - glass;
- cloves of garlic - 4 pcs.;
- a bunch of greenery;
- butter for frying;
- sea salt;
- ground pepper.
Preparation of chanterelles in sauce is easy:
- Selected and washed mushrooms cut, pour into boiling water.
- After a quarter of an hour throw on the grate.
- In a frying pan, heat oil, about a minute fry pieces of 1 clove of garlic. Remove and discard. Add the mushrooms.
- The main question of the housewives is how much to roast the chanterelles, if they have already been boiled? Professionals advise to look at the color of mushrooms: once they have become brighter, you can enter the sauce. Be sure to stir them occasionally.
- Prepare the sauce: combine the sour cream with chopped garlic, ground pepper, salt, sliced greens.
- Pour this mass of mushrooms, cover. Fried chanterelles will be ready in 3-4 minutes, when sour cream is curdled.
Chanterelles with sour cream
The number of recipes that involve the connection of these 2 products is difficult to count. If you start looking in open sources, how to make chanterelles in sour cream, you will be bewildered by an endless variety of options. The most successful professionals call:
- casseroles;
- paste;
- stewed mushrooms with sauce;
- thick soups puree.
How to cook mushrooms in sour cream in a frying pan
In addition to the classic ideas of frying, which were higher, it is worth studying the recipes of stewed chanterelles under different versions of gentle sour cream sauce. The dish you get if you try to cook mushrooms using the technology described below, ideally complements the paste or boiled rice. The list of ingredients for two is as follows:
- fresh mushrooms - 0.4 kg;
- cream or fatty sour cream - 100 ml;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- clove of garlic;
- olive oil;
- butter - 20 g;
- wheat flour - 1 tbsp.l.;
- parsley;
- salt.
Principle of preparation:
- Mushrooms rinse, cut, boil.
- Frying pan fry over low heat. Combine both types of oil in it, add crushed garlic. Fry for a couple of minutes.
- Pour boiled cut mushrooms, add salt, cover with lid.
- After 10 minutes, pour the cream / sour cream, pour grated cheese and flour. After 5-6 minutes add torn parsley, turn off the stove.
Fried chanterelles with sour cream in the multistake
This dish is to taste close to what is produced on the stove, but it can be cooked in just 3 steps. The total duration of the work is one hour, however, most of the process passes without the intervention of the hostess. For 2 portions you need:
- chanterelles - 0,5 kg;
- bulb;
- sour cream - 4 tbsp.l.;
- oil;
- salt.
How to cook fried chanterelles in sour cream with a multivark? Scheme is as follows:
- Put the sliced product in a greased bowl, pour a liter of water. Set the "baking" mode. Cook 20 minutes.
- Add the chopped onion, leave for the same mode for another quarter of an hour.
- Stir, add sour cream, a couple of grams of salt. Without a lid, keep on "frying" for 5-7 minutes.
Potatoes with chanterelles in the oven
This dish is incredibly rich and fragrant, it's hard to swirl when you see a random photo. If you were looking for a way how to make chanterelles with potatoes under sour cream, to make it unusual and delicious - you need to read this recipe. The set of products is as follows:
- chanterelle - 300 g;
- potatoes are young - 4-5 pieces;
- onion;
- chicken fillet - 120 g;
- sour cream - 180 g;
- paprika;
- carrots;
- salt;
- vegetable oil for frying.
How to cook stewed chanterelles in sour cream using an oven? The algorithm is as follows:
- Cut the fillet, salt, fry until golden.
- Cook the potatoes in the same frying pan, but pour a little water.
- Grate the carrot and chop the onion. Chanterelles to boil.
- Combine all the ingredients of the dish, stir. To lay out on pots.
- Prepare the sauce: greens, small pieces of garlic, sour cream and paprika to beat.
- Refill the dish, add half a glass of water to each pot.
- Cooking for 25-30 minutes at 170 degrees. Time may need a little more if the oven is without convection.