Soup of dried white mushrooms

Soup of dried white mushrooms - a dish extremely tasty and fragrant. If you still tried it, you lost a lot in life. Usually housewives consider such recipes as "emeralds" of their culinary "piggy bank". They even dry the mushrooms themselves, and not just buy them on the market. If you also want to go with a basket to the forest, then you will enjoy reading this article.

Mushrooms for drying should be strong and healthy. They should be thoroughly cleaned of needles and adhering land. Mushrooms should not be washed, as they will dry more slowly. Trim the contaminated parts of the rootlets, lay the mushrooms down on the sieve or simply string them on the threads. You can dry them in the oven or in the sun. The latter option is optimal, since the fungi are more qualitative. How do you know if they are ready for use? Mushrooms should easily break and bend, but do not crumble.

Soup from dried white mushrooms turns out so tasty, because they are fragrant. A small number of them, so that the dish smelled simply delicious. However, from such mushrooms it is possible to prepare also borsch, and sauces, and forcemeat for pies. Before use, they soak, and then boil in the same water. Then they should be finely chopped and introduced into a dish.

In order that you can always make soup from dried white mushrooms, you need to store them correctly. Do this in dry, well ventilated and necessarily clean rooms. You can not store them next to fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, berries, salt and sauerkraut products. So they quickly damp.

So, how to make soup from white dried mushrooms? Take 70 grams of the product described, 4 sprigs of parsley, garlic clove, one onion, 100 milliliters of wine (white dry), a little nutmeg, 300 grams of fresh champignons, 2 tablespoons. L. Butter (cream), 150 grams of bacon, 250 milliliters of cream and salt with pepper.

You need to boil about 150 milliliters of water, then put dry mushrooms in it, remove the container from the plate, cover it and forget about it for 15 minutes. At this time, peel and chop the onions with garlic. Wash greens and finely chop. Champignons are cut into thin strips, and bacon cubes are small cubes. Now take the pan, heat the butter in it and fry the onion on it, then add the greens, garlic and mushrooms to it. After all the liquid has evaporated from the pan, you can put bacon into it, and after five minutes pour in the dry wine. Now take the soaked dry mushrooms and swing them into the colander. Then cut into slices and put to the rest of the ingredients. Pour the contents of the pan with water (about 350 milliliters) and salt. When the dish comes to a boil, cook it for another 15 minutes. Soup of dried white mushrooms is ready. Your household will definitely ask for supplements.

You can also offer them cream soup with white mushrooms. For two servings you will need 400 grams of fresh white mushrooms, one and a half glasses of chicken broth, butter (4 tablespoons), a glass of fatty cream, a half-pint of parsley, one onion and ground white pepper and salt.

Rinse the mushrooms, put aside 16 pieces, cut off from the legs and hats. Cut the remaining mushrooms finely, chop the onions into cubes. Now it needs to be fried in butter in a deep frying pan until golden. After that, add the same mushrooms, after a couple of minutes - pour in the chicken broth. Then you should grind the soup with a blender or rub it through a sieve. The resulting mass is returned to the pan and boiled further, bringing to a boil. Add the cream. Soup should be served on the table, filling it with parsley with pieces of mushrooms, set aside at the beginning of cooking. Only them with greens should be fried a little in butter. You can cook and cream soup from dried mushrooms, it will be even more fragrant.

Bon Appetit.