Calorie content and characteristics of the components present in the black mass. Healing effect on the body, and contraindications to mushrooms. What dishes are made from nigella?
Harm and contraindications to the use of nigella
Any mushrooms have a number of contraindications and restrictions for use, not all people, for one reason or another, related to health, can eat them. Blackies are no exception. Let's find out who is not recommended to use black milk mushrooms:
- For children … When adding mushrooms to the diet, we are dealing with "heavy" food or delicacies, without which the child's body will only benefit.
- For patients with stomach diseases … If you have problems of this nature, it is better to do without mushrooms, which are difficult to digest.
- People with allergic reactions … Allergies can occur to any fruit, vegetable or mushroom, so those who suffer from such undesirable manifestations should not indulge in nigella.
It should be remembered that black milk mushrooms can cause severe poisoning if improperly prepared, as well as if the mushrooms were collected in ecologically dirty areas and absorbed both radiation and various toxic substances.
Recipes with black milk mushrooms
Among mushroom lovers, nigella is considered a delicacy due to its excellent taste. They can be boiled or pickled, and they are also suitable for pickling. They make a wonderful filling for pies and pancakes, they are used as an ingredient for dumplings and pizzas. But, in order to remove the bitterness from the nigella, you need to soak them for a long time, often changing the water, or treat them with heat for a long time.
Recipes with nigella or black milk mushrooms:
- Cold salting of nigella … Soak the mushrooms, then discard them in a colander. Salt nigella is preferable in wooden barrels or glass jars. For salting, in addition to mushrooms, water and salt, we also need spices: horseradish, lavrushka, garlic, dill, cloves. Don't forget currant and cherry leaves. We put the spices at the bottom of the container, and then the mushrooms with their caps down, sprinkling them with salt. For 1 kg of blackies, take about 40-50 g of salt. We put oppression on top. You can eat such mushrooms after 45 days, by which time they will acquire a pleasant raspberry-burgundy color.
- Hot salting of nigella … We wash the mushrooms. We boil for 15-20 minutes in brackish water. We drain the liquid. Cooking the brine: take 1, 5-2 tbsp for 1 liter of water. l. salt, lavrushka and peppercorns. Put nigella in a boiling brine and cook for another 15 minutes. Removed from heat - put garlic and horseradish. We do oppression in the same saucepan. We keep it for 6 days in a place where it is cool, and then we put it in a sterile container. Fill with brine, add a few drops of vegetable oil and seal the jars. After 20 days, the product can be served.
- Pickled blackies in the classic way … Components: 2 kg of mushrooms, water (1 l), salt (40 g), sugar (30 g), 9% vinegar (30 ml), 5-6 pieces of cloves, black pepper and allspice. We soak the mushrooms during the day, changing the water 3 times. We boil the nigella in brackish water for 30 minutes, which then needs to be drained. Cooking brine: water + salt + sugar + spices. Put the mushrooms in a boiling brine and cook them for 15 minutes. Add vinegar and boil for another 5 minutes. We put them in jars, which must first be sterilized, corked, wrap up until they cool. Garlic and vegetable oil will not spoil our mushrooms, but you need to add them when serving.
- Pickled nigella with onions and carrots … To prepare this dish, we already have 1 kg of boiled nigella. In addition, 70-80 g of onions, 100 g of carrots, 1 liter of water, 30 g of sugar and 10 g of salt. You can't cook these nigella without 3 cloves, 3 lavrushkas, black and allspice - 5 peas each, 2 g of citric acid and 50 ml of 9% vinegar. First, rub the carrots coarsely and cut the onion into half rings. Then we boil vegetables in marinade water so that they become soft. Put the bay leaf, cloves, allspice and black pepper, salt and sugar there and boil for 2 minutes. Put nigella in a boiling marinade, to which vinegar and citric acid were added. We cook them for 15 minutes, put them in jars, of course, sterilized. Fill with marinade. Cork and wrap until it cools. Don't forget to add vegetable oil.
- Simple salad with nigella … We take the components in any ratio or to your liking. So, we need such products: salted milk mushrooms, eggs, potatoes, onions and sour cream. First, boil hard-boiled eggs, potatoes in "uniforms". We clean them and cut them at our discretion. We also grind salted mushrooms. Stir the food and season with sour cream. Eat and enjoy this simple yet delicious salad!
- Salad with milk mushrooms with sour cream … The ingredients for the preparation of this simple but tasty salad are one, two, and missed, but, despite this, it turns out delicious. We need 700 g of salted mushrooms, 3-4 cloves of garlic and 4 tablespoons of sour cream. Cut the blackies into squares. Press the garlic with a garlic. We mix these two products and season with sour cream. Unexpected guests are on the doorstep, and we have an unusual salad. Help yourself to your health!
- Fried nigella or black milk mushrooms … The first step is to thoroughly soak the mushrooms. Then we weld them in brackish water, and after 30 minutes the liquid should be drained. We will fry nigella in a deep frying pan in vegetable oil. If the mushrooms are large, then it is advisable to cut them equally. So, we send the milk mushrooms to the pan, and the frying process has begun. Chopped onions should be added to the mushrooms, the amount depends on the preferences of the person who prepares the dish. More onions - mushrooms are softer. When the liquid leaves the dishes, add sour cream, salt and dill and simmer under the lid for another 15 minutes. This dish is eaten both hot and cold.
- Salted nigella soup … Components: 200 g blackies, 2-3 potatoes, 2 eggs, onions and carrots - 1 pc. Add salt and pepper to taste, like herbs, take vegetable oil in the amount of 2-3 tbsp. l. We wash the vegetables, which then need to be cut into small pieces. Cook the potatoes until tender, fry the onions and carrots at once, and then add the chopped salted mushrooms to the vegetables and simmer the food for 5-10 minutes. Put the roast in a pot with potatoes and continue to cook for five minutes. You need to salt such a soup at the end of cooking, so as not to oversalt, because our mushrooms are already salty. Beat eggs, which should be added to our dish along with herbs and pepper. Let the soup brew for about 10 minutes. Bon appetit!
- Salted nigella sauce … We need: salted mushrooms 700 g, sour cream (3 tablespoons), flour (3 tablespoons) and 2 onions. First you need to peel, chop and fry the onion in oil. Then add the chopped nigella to it and boil for 10 minutes. Add sour cream and bring the whole sauce mass to a boil. Add flour diluted with water and bring to a boil again. You can add a little butter at the end of the sauce. Perfect with hot potatoes.
- Vinaigrette with salted nigella … Take carrots and beets - 1 each, 3 potatoes, 3 pickled cucumbers. In addition, you will need green peas - half a can, onions - 0.5 pcs., Vegetable oil in the amount of 2 tbsp. l., add ground pepper to taste. The main ingredient is 200 g of salted nigella. Mushrooms will give the dish an unusual and sophisticated taste. First we cook vegetables, which should then be peeled and chopped. We also grind the mushrooms. We mix the ingredients. After adding peas and pepper, season the vinaigrette with vegetable oil.
- Pizza with salted nigella … Prepare the dough from ingredients such as cottage cheese (130 g), vegetable oil (3 tbsp. L.), Egg (1 pc.), Flour (200 g), sugar (0.5 tbsp. L.) And baking powder for your discretion. We will start the pizza with salted black milk mushrooms, to which we will also add onions and cheese, grease with mayonnaise. First, you need to knead the dough from the specified products and roll it into small circles. Then grease the pizza bases with mayonnaise, put chopped mushrooms and chopped onions. Then sprinkle with grated cheese. We bake in the oven until golden brown. Many food lovers like a tasty dish with a unique taste.
Interesting facts about blackies
Black mushroom, a "relative" of the white mushroom, is also popularly called gypsy, blackie, pig-nosed. These and other names originated from its dark cap. Young black women "wear" beige or olive "hats", but with age the hats darken.
Going out on a mushroom hunt, you need to be very careful so as not to confuse the mushroom we are considering with ordinary milkmen, which are poisonous. A distinctive feature of this unsuitable for food representative of the mushroom kingdom is a strong spicy smell. The aroma from the milkmen is pleasant, but you do not need to eat them. Although some mushroom lovers consume them dried as spices.
Black milk mushrooms are conditionally edible mushrooms because of their milky juice, which appears in the place where they are cut, and makes the pulp bitter. This bitterness can be partially removed by soaking or boiling.
Some sources say that nigella contains the mutagen necatorin in an amount of 3-20 ml per 1 kg of mushrooms. After boiling the mushrooms of this substance, which is not at all useful, about 25% of the initial amount remains. It is precisely because of this that black milk mushrooms are considered inedible in some reference books, and since the end of the 20th century - poisonous. Although indigestion or vomiting is the result of "bad" eating these mushrooms, blackies are still considered harmful mushrooms.
In Russia and Ukraine, black milk mushrooms are one of the most demanded mushrooms. Many people are very fond of its incomparable taste, most often in salty form, and therefore go out on a mushroom hunt, starting in July and ending in late autumn. It should be noted that blackies love light, so they can be found on bright edges and along paths. And, having found a whole family of mushrooms, you can fill more than one basket with them.
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So, black mushroom or nigella, being a conditionally edible mushroom, has many useful properties, provided it is properly prepared and collected in ecologically clean places. Aren't there many conditions? Maybe a little too much. To eliminate them, collect nigella yourself and in the "right" places. And it's better to cook on your own, adhering to the processing rules. Like this. Gather it yourself, cook it yourself and be healthy!
