How much to cook bruises?
Boil bruises for 10 minutes, drain and cook for another 20 minutes in fresh water.
How to cook bruises
Needed - mushrooms, bruises, water, salt
1. To clean the mushrooms from forest debris, soil, cut off the lower earthy edge of the leg, rinse in cool water.
2. Cut large bruises in half.
3. Put the bruises in a saucepan, pour 2-3 liters of water so that it completely covers the mushrooms, place over medium heat, bring to a boil, cook for 10 minutes.
4. Drain the water from the pan with the mushrooms, pour in fresh cool water, wait for it to boil and cook the bruises for another 20 minutes.
How to make bruised soup
ProductsMushroom bruise (can be dried - 25 grams) - 4-5 pieces
Potatoes - 5 medium-sized tubers
Onions - 2 heads
Vegetable oil - 50 milliliters
Pitted prunes - 50 grams
Wheat flour - flat tablespoon
Seedless Raisins - 80 grams
Parsley - bunch
Salt - half a teaspoon
How to cook mushroom soup with prunes and raisins
1. Clean fresh bruises from debris, earth, cut off the lower part of the leg, dried - soak in cool water for 30-60 minutes.
2. Pour 2 liters of water into a saucepan, put bruises, place on medium heat, after boiling, cook for 10 minutes.
3. Drain the pot with mushrooms, pour in fresh cool water, after boiling, cook for another 20 minutes.
4. Tilt the boiled mushrooms in a colander, cool, do not pour out the mushroom broth.
5. Cut the mushrooms into 1 cm cubes.
6. Peel the onion, chop into strips 5 millimeters thick.
7. Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes 2 centimeters thick.
8. Rinse prunes and raisins, cut prunes in half, pour boiling water over dried fruits for 10 minutes.
9. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat over medium heat for 5 minutes.
10. Fry onions for 5 minutes, add flour, fry for a few more minutes.
11. Pour two tablespoons of mushroom broth into a frying pan with onions, keep on fire for 5 minutes, remove from the burner.
12. Pour mushroom broth into a saucepan, bring to a boil over medium heat.
13. Put dried fruits, potatoes in a saucepan with boiling broth, cook for 15 minutes.
14. Add bruises, fried onions with sauce, salt to the soup, bring to a boil, remove from the burner, let it brew for 10 minutes.
15. Wash greens, chop, sprinkle on soup poured on plates.
Fusofacts
- Bruise or Blue Gyroporus - view tubular cap mushrooms. Has a yellowish or grayish-brown cap with a diameter of 5 to 15 centimeters, which turns blue when pressed. At a young age, the cap is convex, with age it becomes flat. The pulp of the mushroom is white or creamy, at the cut point it also becomes cornflower blue, in contrast to other blue mushrooms, which at the break become dark blue. The leg of the bruise at the base is thickened, length 5-10 centimeters, thickness - 1.5-3 centimeters, in color looks like a hat. The tubular layer of the cap is white; when pressed, it also turns blue.- Common name - a bruise, the mushroom got due to a blue leg and a cap when pressed and at the cut site.
- Bruise is growing in mixed and deciduous forests, more often under birches, entering into symbiosis with them. Also bruises can be found under oak and chestnut trees. The bruise usually grows on sandy soil.
- Season collection of bruises - July-September.
- A bruise is rarely found on the territory of Russia and is even included in Red Book.
- Quality a young bruise does not have a specific pungent odor and has a pleasant nutty taste. Unlike Gyroporus, chestnut is not bitter, therefore it is considered a more valuable mushroom. A bruise can be boiled, dried, sauces made from it.
- Keep mushrooms bruises in raw form can be no more than 2 days in the vegetable compartment, in boiled - 2-3 days in broth.
Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova