How To Clean Green Mushrooms And Rinse Them From Sand, General Tips And Tricks

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How to clean green mushrooms and prepare them for further use

Many lovers of "quiet hunting", who go to the forest in early autumn, become owners of valuable trophies in the form of greenfinches, common throughout the territory of the former CIS countries. Most often, this mushroom can be found in areas with sandy soils and mixed forests, as well as in lichen pine forests. Possessing a short stem, these lamellar mushrooms absorb a large amount of sand. Following simple tips, you can thoroughly clean and process greenfinches before use, taking into account many nuances.

What a green mushroom

There are many local names for these mushrooms, because they are most often called jaundice, sandstone, greenery. The period of their growth lasts until the onset of frost. It is for this reason that greenfinches are very popular with mushroom pickers, because you can collect it when other mushrooms are no longer found. The size of greenfinch can reach 12 cm, and its dense pulp is rarely attacked by worms, which allows you to almost always harvest a good harvest.

Greenfinches can be harvested from the beginning of autumn until the very frost

Greenfinch is suitable for preparing a large variety of dishes. These mushrooms are delicious pickled, but they can also be fried, salted, and boiled. However, you should know that this type of mushroom belongs to the number of conditionally edible, which means that before preparing any dishes, the green tea must first be boiled. And when salting, it is better to give preference to the hot method.

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Preliminary stage: how to clean these mushrooms in the forest

Since this mushroom grows too close to the ground, it picks up a lot of dirt. Going in search of greenfinches, you should not neglect their preliminary cleaning in the forest.

1. After removing the greenhouse from the soil, cut off the cap and the lower part of the mushroom leg.
2. Remove needles and other debris from the hat that adhered to the greenhouse during the rains.

Before putting the green tea in the basket, it is advisable to clear it of dirt and forest debris

How to wash and clean mushrooms from sand and other dirt at home

At home, you can make better cleaning of mushrooms, which is necessary before their further use.

1. Returning home, soak greenfinches in plenty of warm water, leaving them in this state for several hours.

2. Then drain the water and fill the mushrooms with saline solution (0.5 tablespoon per liter of water). They can stay in it for up to 12 hours, but you can take them out of salted water much earlier, after 2-3 hours, if you need quick cooking. It should be borne in mind that the volume of water must exceed the volume of mushrooms by 3-4 times.

   

   Pre-soaking allows you to remove the maximum amount of sand from the lamellar mushrooms

3. To get rid of the sand as much as possible, stir the mushrooms several times, draining the dirty water and recruiting clean water.

4. Then rinse each greenhouse in running water.

   

   Rinsing with running water will remove dirt residues on greenfinches

After the performed procedures, greenfinches need to be welded for 5 minutes, then carefully remove them from the pan, and then drain the water used during cooking. During the cooking process, the sand remaining in the mushrooms will fall to the bottom of the pan.

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Dry cleaning before drying process

Since greenfinches are conditionally edible mushrooms, they are rarely dried. In addition, decoctions from dried greenfinches are not particularly tasty and do not have a pronounced mushroom aroma. But if you decide to dry greenfinches, you can use dry cleaning. However, in this case, it will not work to completely get rid of the sand that has penetrated the pores of the mushrooms.

1. Gently wipe off the greenfinches with a clean cloth.
2. Tap the hats lightly, trying to knock out the sand.
3. If necessary, scrape off any dirt adhering to the stem of the mushroom with a knife.
4. Then you can start the drying process itself.

How to properly prepare green tea for further use

Before you start cooking fresh and dried greenfinches, they must be boiled.

1. To do this, soak dried mushrooms in cool water for an hour.
2. Rinse the greenfinches.
3. Pour water into a suitable sized enamel pot and boil it. In this case, it is desirable to observe the proportion of the mass of mushrooms to the volume of liquid 1: 1.
4. Add 30 g of salt to 1 liter of water.
5. Submerge dried mushrooms in salted water and bring to a boil, then cook for 10 minutes.
6. Remove the greenfinches with a slotted spoon and rinse under running cold water.
7. Drain the pot and pour clean water into it, preparing the same saline solution again.
8. Put the greenfinches back in the pot and cook for 20 minutes.
9. Then repeat steps 6-8. Cook the mushrooms again for 20 minutes. Thus, the total cooking time for greenfinches will be 50 minutes.

Thanks to this method, you can not only thoroughly rinse greenfinches from sand and prepare them for further use, but also rid the mushrooms of radionuclides, reducing their amount in the product by 2–3 times. After carrying out such processing, you can start preparing greenfinches in various ways, without fear of the possibility of poisoning and excluding the presence of unpleasant taste sensations.

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Using the methods described in this article, you can qualitatively clean greenfinches and prepare them for further use. When working with these conditionally edible mushrooms, be sure to boil them before preparing various dishes. This will avoid poisoning. Thanks to the preliminary soaking of this type of mushroom, it is possible to effectively remove the sand clogging in their pores. Greenfinches, properly prepared for use, will delight you with their exquisite taste and become a worthy decoration of the table.