Morels.Description
Morels - Mushrooms family morshellovyh with wrinkled hat, reminiscent of walnut kernels, and a hollow leg.It is the first spring mushrooms appearing in deciduous forests immediately after the snow melts.They reach a height of 15 cm, cap diameter is 10 cm. Mushroom caps, hollow inside, brown, yellow-brown or yellow in color, resembling an egg, and its surface is composed of irregular cells.Color hollow stipe - light yellow or milky white.
chemical composition
Today we know what "utility" carry morels (mushrooms), how to prepare dishes of forest products and what they are particularly tasty.First, however, note the trouble that may lie in wait in the use of the product.Morels, photos you see above are conditionally edible and before eating require heat treatment.In fresh mushrooms contain toxins that are harmful to the human body, such as methyl hydrazine and girometrin.Considering that the more the fungus, the more toxins it has accumulated, during collection should prefer not especially large specimens.It is worth noting and useful properties of morels.These mushrooms contain a huge amount of minerals (calcium, phosphorus, potassium), vitamins (C, E, PP, A, and B vitamins), polysaccharides (FD4), a positive effect on vision.In folk medicine, a decoction of the morel is used to treat rheumatism, blood diseases, age-related changes of view.
Morels (mushrooms): how to cook
As mentioned above, these mushrooms contain poisons.These toxins evaporate during drying after three months, and in boiling go into the water in which they cooked.Because preparing mushrooms, pre-boil in for 15-17 minutes, and then use them in fire, frying or to add to soups.If the mushrooms are dried, then after three months and can be used as an aromatic additive to various dishes.And yet, despite the fact that mushrooms are obtained very tasty and fragrant dishes of them, take them for food for children under 12 years of age and pregnant women should be with great caution.
Recipes
Especially tasty are obtained stewed in sour cream morels (mushrooms).How to prepare this dish, even our grandmothers knew: half a kilo of mushrooms you need to take a glass of sour cream, a teaspoon of flour and a little cheese.Pre-prepared sliced mushrooms fried in a pan, then sprinkle with flour and fried again.Then add the cream and bring the mixture to a boil.Sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in the oven.The finished dish before serving, you can decorate with chopped herbs fragrant parsley.
Another recipe - the French favorite soup, which uses morels (mushrooms).How to cook it?Lightly fried in butter mushrooms with chopped onion, pour meat broth and boil for half an hour.Then strain the broth, let it cool a little, and at this time is ground mushrooms with butter, egg yolk and cream.Reconnect both the composition - and the resulting broth mushroom mixture - served at the table, seasoned with lemon juice and sprinkle with grated nutmeg.
Bon appetit!
