How to freeze mushrooms

It's nice to remember warm days, shaded woods - in the winter, eating a delicious soup from white mushrooms. Help to keep them freezing. This type of harvesting allows you to keep the nutritional value, flavour and aromatic virtues of fresh mushrooms.

You will need

• white mushrooms,
• - water,
• Sol
• packages or containers for freezing,
• labels.

Instruction

1. Inspect the white mushrooms after harvest, wash, thoroughly clean the damaged area from pollution. Sort the young from the old - it is desirable to handle them separately. If a lot of mushrooms, separate the caps from the legs and prepare them to freeze separately.
   Clean the mushrooms with a sharp knife cut into plates with a thickness of 3-4 mm slices should not be pink. If the mushrooms are young, strong, but slightly worm-eaten, then let them soak for 30 minutes in salted water and then wash the worms will remain in the salt solution.
2. Boil water in a saucepan, add a little salt. Cook mushrooms about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. This operation will allow to reduce their volume and save space in the freezer. Pour mushrooms in a colander, wait until the water in which they were boiled, completely and tightly, lay them in bags, divided into the necessary for further cooking portions. Seal the packages.
   You can also use the containers to freeze, but we must remember that mushrooms increase in size when frozen, and fill the tank have no more than three quarters.
3. Add a label with the date of procurement packages or containers of mushrooms prepared for freezing, put them in the freezer. To freeze mushrooms it is necessary quickly, if possible, lower the temperature on the time required for freezing to a minimum. Store at a temperature of minus -18 ºc.