Champignons are versatile mushrooms that are successfully used in many recipes. Their availability determines great popularity among consumers. Champignons began to be used by people in cooking for a long time. Today they are grown at home and on special farms.
About a thousand years ago, Italians discovered mushrooms champignons. Since then, they have quickly been recognized in many countries and have become a very popular and beloved product of many. They contain a large amount of nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins B, D, E, potassium, zinc, phosphorus, iron and organic acids. By the amount of phosphorus, they are ahead of even seafood. It is also a diabetic product. Therefore, for a very long time, champignons were considered a delicacy and only high-ranking persons and kings could afford to eat them.
Today, you can buy champignons in almost every store or on market shelves. When buying, pay attention to the appearance of mushrooms. They must be intact and fresh. Many people have a question about how to clean mushrooms. Their processing is quite simple. If you are not going to immediately use these mushrooms for cooking, then they can be stored for about five days. In this case, do not wash them until cooking. Just wrap them in paper or a special container with air access and put them in the refrigerator.
Before cooking, mushrooms are cleaned without fail. To do this, remove dirt and earth with a knife. Then the mushrooms are thoroughly washed under a stream of cold water. Before you clean the champignons, do not soak them in water. From this they lose their taste and become watery.
The champignons bought at the store are clean enough and do not require thorough processing. If you prefer to pick mushrooms yourself, then it will take a longer time to clean them. Harvested mushrooms can not be cooked and stored raw. Here there are subtleties of how to clean mushrooms. It is necessary that the fungi contact as little as possible with water. You can wipe them with a dry or slightly damp cloth. If they are very dirty, rinse them with cold water, but do it quickly so that they do not pick up moisture. Then you need to dry the mushrooms. After that, they are cut into pieces and put into a closed container. It must be remembered that mushrooms in this form cannot be stored for a long time. They must be used as quickly as possible.
The rules for cleaning mushrooms are simple. The basic requirement is the absence of dirt and earth. The result of the collection, cleaning and processing will be the unsurpassed taste of this product.
If we talk about how to clean mushrooms, it is worth mentioning one aspect. Mushrooms should be washed only in cold water, and in no case in hot water. They are perfectly washed with cold water, but at the same time they do not lose their properties and retain a beautiful appearance, which is also important, agree?
When cleaning champignons, it is also necessary to remove the lower part of the stalk in the place of cut with the remains of the earth. If the mushroom cap opens, then rinse the plates thoroughly, in which the ground and dirt can remain.
Depending on the size and degree of maturity, champignons can be used to prepare various dishes. Therefore, after cleaning them, you must sort them. Small mushrooms will go for use as a whole, and large ones can be cut and added to sauces and side dishes.
The champignon, excellent in taste, is also distinguished by its accessibility and ease of processing. Therefore, it is so popular and is successfully used in cooking.