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- Three methods for drying mushrooms
- Prepare butter mushrooms properly
- How to dry butter mushrooms properly
- air drying
- Dry in the oven
- For professionals: drying in the dehydrator
- Tips
Butter mushrooms are best dried in combination with other mushrooms
Three methods for drying mushrooms
If you have a coniferous or mixed forest with lots of pines in your area, go and look for butter mushrooms between June and October. Especially on a warm, sunny morning after a rainstorm you might find it - especially as the brown mushrooms with the characteristic butter yellow to olive green tubes stand together in groups. Fresh butter mushrooms taste especially well fried in butter. You can also preserve the slightly bitter-tasting edible mushroom by freezing or drying it.
Prepare butter mushrooms properly
But before drying comes first the right preparation. Even in the forest you should wipe the greasy hat surface with a dry and clean cloth, also remove the coarsest dirt, adhesive needles, etc. It is also advisable to control the mushrooms collected immediately on maggots, which are preferably in the interior of the pulp - butter mushrooms are often eaten by maggots, but also by snails. At home, you should finally clean the mushrooms thoroughly with a brush and a cloth, but do not wash them - this will make drying later difficult. The Huthaut should also be deducted.
How to dry butter mushrooms properly
Butter mushrooms become particularly aromatic when dried. It will be particularly tasty if you dry them with other wild mushrooms - for example, boletus mushrooms, birch mushrooms, chestnut pipe sprouts or stick sponges - and use them as mixed mushrooms. The dried mushrooms can also be ground, the resulting mushroom powder is ideal as a seasoning.
air drying
Although this method is often suggested, it is ineffective and can not be recommended because of the risk of mildew.
Dry in the oven
It is better to dry the cleaned and sliced mushrooms in the oven instead:
The mushrooms are dried when they break or crumble when bent. If they are still elastic, the process is not over yet.
For professionals: drying in the dehydrator
If you often and like to dry mushrooms and maybe also vegetables, fruits and herbs, then we recommend the purchase of a dehydrator or drying oven.
Tips
Furthermore, butter mushrooms can also be frozen very well.