Description and features of the boletus. The composition and characteristics of the components. Useful properties and contraindications to its use. Mushroom recipes. It is not surprising that the boletus is very popular with mushroom pickers, despite its simple appearance and common name. It has a large amount of healing substances that have a beneficial effect on the general condition of the body.
By the way! Due to its beneficial properties, boletus belongs to the first category of mushrooms and is valuable, and also stands on a par with boletus (boletus), boletus, mushrooms, honey agarics, champignons and chanterelles.
Harm and contraindications to the use of boletus
While this mushroom is often considered safe, in addition to its beneficial effects, it can still harm your body in certain cases.
Here are some situations when it is contraindicated:
- Stomach ulcer … With this ailment, a person needs to limit himself in many products of plant and animal origin. This list also includes mushrooms, since they are still poorly absorbed in case of ulcers and make the stomach heavier, have some substances in their composition that can irritate it.
- Duodenal problems … Frequent use of fried boletus or damp boletus can lead to malfunctions of the duodenum. And a properly cooked mushroom is quite high in calories and heavy.
- Individual intolerance … Each person is different and reacts to food in different ways. Obabok belongs to mushrooms, after the use of which unpredictable consequences are possible. Therefore, nutritionists advise to study your body well before eating boletus. Indeed, otherwise idiosyncrasy is possible - a disease associated with an individual intolerance to the product.
- Poisoning with toxic substances … An important point for mushroom pickers when collecting is not to confuse boletus and gall mushroom. The latter type is classified as inedible and looks like a lump. The main difference is its bitter taste. And you can check by breaking the hat, it will immediately change color and turn red, but the edible mushroom will have it the same.
These mushrooms cannot be included in the list with dietary and most useful foods, and there are certain reasons for this: poor digestion and deterioration in the digestion of other foods (due to the high content of chitin), the ability to accumulate harmful substances from the environment and the possibility of confusing them with a poisonous brother … Nutritionists recommend not to use them for children and limit the amount to adults.
Carefully! Boletus, like a sponge, absorbs radioactive and toxic substances, so they cannot be collected on the territories of industrial enterprises, near highways, railways and in public places - this can also lead to death.
Recipes with boletus
This mushroom is considered one of the most delicious, its high qualities are appreciated by both housewives and gourmets. In prestigious restaurants, they are also often found in various dishes. They are a direct supplier of nutrients - proteins and vitamins.
Here is a list of affordable and simple cooking methods that will help you meet your guest with dignity:
- Mushroom dumplings … Although this dish is interesting, it is not very well known. You can serve it both independently and in addition to potato soup. Let's start cooking with the dough: boil the peeled mushrooms (250 g) and then remove the excess liquid. Next, mince them and peeled onions. In this mix, stir in the egg and flour (5 tbsp. L.), Salt (0, 3 tbsp.l.) and a pinch of pepper. Then bring to a boil, add a little water and fill small molds with this dough. Cook all this for no more than 5 minutes. This dish is served immediately after preparation.
- Khinkali with obabki … This dish comes from sunny Georgia, our analogue is dumplings. But khinkali with mushrooms is no worse. Boil 400 g of boletus boletus, then fry the onion, and then also the mushrooms in the remaining vegetable oil. Combine this mixture and add spices to taste, mix everything. At this time, knead the dough (add water and salt to the sifted flour). Roll it out, cut out the circles and put the filling. Thus, we form khinkali. We lift each piece by a knot and lower it into boiling water. For the first seconds we do not let them stick to the bottom, and after they come up, we cook them for 5 minutes. Bon Appetit!
- Mushroom pancakes … Usually, meat filling is added to the pancakes, but putting these mushrooms in will give this dish a second wind. Let's start cooking. Fry the blackheads with onions, then grind the prepared mushrooms and eggs in a food processor and pour in the milk. Add flour and salt there to taste, as well as quenched soda. Once again pass through the "metal knife" until a homogeneous mass is formed. Spoon the formed pancakes into a preheated pan and fry on both sides until golden brown. The secret to winning the hearts of guests is to serve this dish with sour cream!
- Pie with stumps and cabbage … Pies always smell of coziness and home, and you will certainly be able to please your loved ones with them. To prepare it, you need to fry the mushrooms and make a dough (sift the flour and add salted water). To the prepared boletus, add fried cabbage with onions and seasonings to taste - the filling is ready. To form the dough, it is better to take a round dish, lay out the filling evenly. After brushing the cake with milk, place in the oven and bake for 40 minutes. To make kids smile, you can get creative and make a mushroom-shaped pie.
- Elementary soup … This first course often decorates tables in Belarus, because it comes from there. And another feature of the soup is that it is prepared in a slow cooker, for which the dish got its name. We start cooking: pour water into a bowl, put out thoroughly washed small mushrooms, set the “Cooking” mode, wait 10 minutes and drain. Then fry the carrots in a slow cooker (in slices), stir all the time. After frying, pour water into the bowl and add millet and potatoes cut into cubes there, then pepper, salt and close the lid. We set the "Soup" mode after the timer expires, add the onion. The dish surprises with its simplicity in preparation and excellent taste.
- Cheerful potato pancakes … If you want to update the recipe, add chunks to your usual potato pancakes, and the dish will acquire a forest flavor. To prepare it, you need to add boletus to the fried onion and stew it for 3 minutes. At this time, peel the potatoes and grate them. Add to this mixture sautéed onion, egg and mushrooms, salt and pepper (optional). Mix all this thoroughly, put the cakes with a spoon on a preheated frying pan and fry until golden brown. Bon appetite!
Buttons are a versatile ingredient in dishes, as they can be added to anything from roasts to soup, from cutlets to casseroles. These mushrooms are an unusual and tasty filling for both pie and pizza. They fill our body with useful substances and forest freshness. And the abundance of recipes will surprise you, dishes with them will please your loved ones.
Interesting facts about boletus
In addition to its medicinal properties, boletus may surprise you with the variety of its names, places of distribution and the presence of a huge number of recipes in cooking. The people have such names as obabok, gray mushroom and grandmother, common birch, he is also called black and blackhead.
This mushroom can most often be found where birch trees grow, since the obabok forms mycorrhiza with them. He likes places that are well warmed by the sun, but with moist soil.
Surprisingly, in some parts of the world, obabok suffers from gigantism, for example, in the Far East, in the tundra and in the North. If in the forest its size barely reaches 15 cm, then in these areas it grows up to 40 cm! Reindeer like to feed on these overgrown ones.
All blackheads belong to the group of edible mushrooms. There are about 40 types of them, and all of them practically do not differ: boletus, gray, harsh, marsh, black, turning pink, checkerboard, ash gray, multi-colored. Their main characteristic is the extraordinary brown shine of the cap.
A distinctive feature of the stump in cooking, in comparison with other mushrooms, is that the broth is not prepared from it, since it acquires a dark color during long heat treatment. Therefore, it is recommended to soak the boletus in citric acid.
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Boletus belongs to the category of royal mushrooms, along with boletus. Its first class is manifested in all criteria: useful properties, the minimum number of contraindications, versatility in cooking. And doctors know it primarily as a medicine to support kidney function and therefore recommend it to their patients.
