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- How freshly collected: freeze wild mushrooms
- Which mushrooms can be frozen?
- Freeze wild mushrooms raw
- Forest mushrooms blanched freeze
- Thaw or process mushrooms
Mushrooms can be frozen raw or blanched
How freshly collected: freeze wild mushrooms
On wet autumn days you can literally watch the mushrooms shoot out of the forest floor. To preserve fresh wild mushrooms for the time outside the mushroom season, you can deep-freeze them in the freezer.
Which mushrooms can be frozen?
In principle, there is nothing against preserving all edible mushrooms by freezing. They should be fresh and firm and be carefully cleaned before freezing. Neither wild mushrooms nor champignons from the supermarket can be cleaned with water - they could soak. Better you brush off with a special mushroom or vegetable brush and cut with a sharp knife soiled stems approaches.
Be careful with chanterelles: Frozen raw you will taste bitter after cooking, so you should put this mushroom only seared or blanched in the freezer.
Freeze wild mushrooms raw
First, bring the cleaned mushrooms to the shape you want to use them later on: Cut the mushrooms into slices, halves or quarters or leave small forest mushrooms in one piece. Since the mushroom pieces are very likely to freeze to a lump in the TIef refrigerated container, they should be portioned into freezer bags or freeze-sealable boxes. Alternatively, you can first cool down the forest mushrooms next to each other on a board and, after a few hours, transfer them into freezer boxes or bags.
Forest mushrooms blanched freeze
It is also possible to blanch forest mushrooms before freezing. For chanterelles, this is the way to go as they develop a bitter taste when frozen raw.
- Cut the cleaned mushrooms into the desired shape (eg slices) if you do not want to freeze them in one piece. Bring salted water to a boil and pour the mushrooms in for a minute. After pouring, place the forest mushrooms in ice water for a moment. This is how you interrupt the cooking process. The fully cooled mushrooms are then added in portions to freezer containers. You can also first freeze them on a wooden board as described above. To be preserved, the mushrooms must be stored at -18 ° C in the *** freezer.
Thaw or process mushrooms
Frozen mushrooms should never be thawed before processing. They would become spongy and lose their aroma.Put the mushrooms frozen in the pan or pot. To cook quickly and taste like fresh from the forest.
Frozen wild mushrooms can be stored in the freezer for up to one year. The fresher the mushrooms were before freezing, the longer they are shelf-stable. After a few months they lose their aroma.