Description of fucus tremella, many names. Calorie content, composition, useful and dangerous properties of ice mushroom. Mushroom recipes and interesting facts about the unique mushroom "kingdom". The ice mushroom is most valuable for women. If dishes from it are introduced into the diet up to 4-5 times a week in the treatment of gynecological diseases, the sensitivity of the reproductive system increases, and the effectiveness of treatment procedures increases. The pronounced anti-cancer effect of the pulp of the shiver has on the malignant process that develops in the cervix.
To rejuvenate and increase skin tone, the mushroom is eaten and introduced as a component in anti-aging masks. Tremella polysaccharides retain moisture more efficiently than acid complexes. 3-4 procedures per week and regular introduction to the menu is an effective way to slow down age-related changes.
Harm and contraindications to the use of trembling fucus
In Asian cuisine, the silver ear has been introduced into the diet since childhood, in small pieces, so the microflora of children is prepared for such an addition.
But for Europeans, in addition to individual intolerance, contraindications to the use of ice mushroom are as follows: the age of children is less than 3 years old, pregnancy and lactation. This is not due to the harmful effects of the trembling itself on the body, but to the possible intolerance of the new product. Indigestion, nausea, and diarrhea may occur.
You can not eat mushrooms at the same time as anticoagulants - drugs that reduce blood clotting, and if the hematopoietic system is disrupted.
The product is recommended for those who are losing weight as it accelerates metabolic processes, but you should not get carried away with it. Frequent use will lead to weight gain. As already mentioned, the mushroom dish has a high nutritional value.
Ice mushroom recipes
All dishes can be prepared not only from raw mushrooms, but also from dried ones. It is in this form that they are found on the shelves of Asian stores. Without being a gourmet, it is impossible to distinguish between freshly picked mushrooms and pre-dried ones. Dried fruit bodies are poured with water before cooking.
At home, you can cook various salads with them, combining with radishes, fresh and pickled cucumbers, eggs. If the dish is introduced into the menu for the purpose of healing, there is no need to boil the fruit bodies. It is impossible to get poisoned, the mushroom grown artificially does not accumulate harmful substances.
Recipes with fucus tremella:
- Asian dessert … Fresh pulp is boiled for 2-3 minutes and dried in the oven at a temperature of 60-70 ° C for 2-3 hours. Then put the chopped canned peaches in a deep container, pour over the syrup and put mushroom slices on top of the straw. Close with a lid and leave for a day. The resulting candied fruit, slices of ice mushroom pulp soaked in syrup vapors, are considered a special delicacy.
- Ice mushroom salad … Prepare 5 fresh fruit bodies, weighing approximately 100 g. The remaining ingredients of the dish: red bell pepper, fresh cucumber, a clove of garlic, ajimota paste (1 tablespoon), 3 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 cloves of garlic (less), a teaspoon sesame oil, salt, pepper mixture to taste. Dried mushrooms are poured with cold water for 20 minutes, wait until they become elastic, then boil for 5 minutes, changing the water and slightly salting. Thinly chop the cucumber, pepper and garlic (you do not need to crush the cloves), remove the inedible part (leg) from the mushroom and finely chop the pulp. Combine all the ingredients, mix with seasonings, let it brew for an hour under a lid in the refrigerator. According to the reviews of those who have tried this dish, it is impossible to get drunk while eating vodka.
- Korean marinated tremella … 2 tablespoons of soy sauce are mixed with a teaspoon of sugar and the same amount of water, grind to completely dissolve the sugar. Garlic is fried in oil, cut into pieces, as soon as a spicy aroma appears, the garlic is removed. Mushrooms are not soaked in water until the end, they should finally reach in soy sauce, having completely absorbed it. Without draining the sauce, boil the shivers until the liquid evaporates, then chop, mix with fried garlic and sprinkle with finely chopped green onions. When serving, you can pepper.
- Gourmet ice mushrooms … Pour the mushrooms with water, wait for them to increase 8-10 times, boil in chicken broth for 5 minutes. Then they are fried in a deep frying pan (in China such dishes are called "wok") in vegetable oil, first adding chopped garlic, and then adding white wine. When the liquid has evaporated, the dish is considered ready. Fruiting bodies should not decrease in size. The appetizer is combined with mashed potatoes, whipped with cream.
- Tremella garnish for meat … The amount of ingredients is calculated for 100 g of dry mushrooms and 200 g of chicken breast. The shiver is soaked, divided into separate inflorescences, boiled for 2 minutes. The meat is marinated, cut into thin strips, in a mixture of peppers and salt. In a blender, grind half a white onion, 3 cloves of garlic, a bunch of green onions and fry in sunflower oil for 30 seconds. In this mixture, the meat is fried until cooked, for 2-3 minutes before turning off, mix with mushrooms and simmer in a pan for another 4-5 minutes. Turn it off, add sesame oil, decorate with green onions - feathers. If necessary, season with soy sauce before serving.
- Pickled "corals" … 2 packs of dried mushrooms are soaked in boiling water. When the volume increases 8-20 times, add spices for Korean carrots (they are sold in a complex) in the amount of 25 g, salt, sugar, black and white pepper, 2 cloves of crushed garlic. Mix well, tamp it into a glass jar more tightly, close with a lid, leave for 2 hours. This time is enough for the mushrooms to marinate.
- Garden salad … It cannot be called a modern presentation, but salad will take its rightful place in home cooking. There are a lot of ingredients, and among them are real delicacies: black rice - 1/3 cup, boiled king prawns - 200 g, black caviar - 4 tablespoons (you can be content with imitation), black olives - 80 g. Cut white onions into rings and put to pickle in a mixture of soy sauce, rice vinegar and pepper. The soaked ice mushrooms are boiled for 2 minutes, cooled, disassembled into inflorescences and laid out in the first layer in a flat wide salad bowl. The second layer - pickled onions, the third - peeled shrimps, pour yogurt (100 ml), lemon juice mixed with olive oil (tablespoon each). They cover it with "earth" - black caviar, "plant" boiled broccoli inflorescences and heads of Brussels sprouts. You can supplement the garden with slices of boiled carrots and fresh radishes. Instead of tops, parsley leaves are stuck into the carrots.
If you are lucky enough to purchase fresh mushrooms, although their cost is much higher than the budget, you should store the tremella in a closed container without air access on the refrigerator shelf. But even if this condition is met, after 1, 5 days, the pulp will begin to dry out and will be unusable for consumption.
Interesting facts about ice mushroom
The ice mushroom in common parlance is often called "scallops", after the name of the mollusk similar to it.
Fucus tremella has analogues that differ in appearance and are inferior in taste. These include:
- Clavulinopsis corallinorosacea … This is a mushroom growing in the forests of Karelia, the shape is the same, but the color is orange, red, yellow.
- Hericium coral or hericium branched … Its branches resemble the tentacles of a starfish. It looks surprisingly beautiful, it is rarely found in the rubble of rotting dead wood, it is listed in the Red Book.
Dried fucus tremella can be sold under the guise of curly sparassis.
Until 50 years ago, only members of the royal family of China and aristocrats of Japan could taste the silver mushroom. After the spread of cultivation, packages of dried mushrooms are brought from Thailand as a souvenir, like coconut bowls from the Seychelles.
Interestingly, unlike other types of mushrooms, ice mycelium is grown on fresh wood, without soil impurities and without traces of rot. After each harvest, he is allowed to rest for 2 weeks.
In China, the shiver can be sold under names such as white tree ear or silver ear. This is how the Bai Mu Yin Er hieroglyphs are literally translated. In Japan, the trade name is Shirokikurage or Hakumokuji, a woody white jellyfish.
When mushrooms were considered rare, the peasants did not use them for food. Traditional healers sold dried fruit body powder as a cold remedy for dry coughs and as a miraculous anti-aging remedy.
China currently supplies the market with 130,000 kg of ice mushrooms per year. They are used in the food, medical and cosmetic industries.
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