Drying Mushrooms
From elgourmand2 8 years ago
- A long time to make
- Serves some
Your mushroom crop just budded. Well, maybe you found a super sale on mushrooms at the local super. Whatever. The best way to preserve mushrooms is to dehydrate them. A few tips: Don’t wash them. Too much moisture and drying becomes tedious to impossible. Read more If they're dirty, wipe them off with a damp cloth rather than soaking them in water. If your dehydrator is adjustable; use the lowest setting needed to dry them. More flavor and more nutrition. Mushrooms should be cracker dry, meaning they snap easily and break apart like a dry cracker. If they still seem moist or bend rather than snap, it's best to keep drying. Mushrooms that still contain some moisture may rot or develop mold. After drying mushrooms, store them in an airtight container in a cool, dark place. Perfectly dried fungal treasures will keep for years. See less
Ingredients
- • Mushrooms; cleaned and trimmed as needed. shopping list
- • A dehydrator. shopping list
- • Some airtight containers. shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Pick or buy the mushrooms. See Photo
- 2. Set up your dehydrator and get everything ready.
- • Arrange the mushrooms on the drying racks. Don't pack them so tightly that they're sitting on top of each other.
- • I like to dry continuously on a lower setting, no higher than 150 degrees. Sure it may take a little longer, but there's less risk of damaging your mushrooms.
- • Check on them every few hours and remove when they're cracker dry. Depending on how many you have, this may take a while and some may dry faster than others.
- • Have a glass of wine. See Photo
- • Remove from the dehydrator and pack, loosely, in an airtight container. See Photo
- • Store in a cool, dark place.
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