In the kitchen, you can combine a lot of tasty mushrooms with a wide variety of dishes. Good edible mushrooms include puffballs, such as the giant puffball. If you love mushrooms, stock up on the delicious forest fruits in autumn. Keeping it in the freezer is very easy.

The puff pastry is cleaned, sliced and blanched

Prepare puff pastry for freezing

Mushrooms, including puffballs, can usually be stored well in the freezer. You can either freeze a ready-made mushroom dish or freeze the mushrooms unprocessed. The preparations for freezing take little time, but should be carried out conscientiously.
You should note the following points:

  • Clean each Bovist individually and carefully remove all dirt with a brush or a dry kitchen towel.
  • Generously cut out brown bruises or grazing marks.
  • Then cut the mushrooms into bite-sized pieces, such as cubes or slices.
  • Blanch the mushrooms before freezing.
  • Place the mushrooms in a freezer box or bag and place them in the fridge with the date label attached.

How are Boviste blanched?

Mushrooms have a high water content and lose their bite when they freeze, and become soft and limp when thawed. So that Boviste or other mushrooms are still crisp after defrosting and look perfect, you should blanch them briefly before storing them in the freezer.

Blanching explained step by step

  1. Clean the puffballs from dirt and unsightly bruises
  2. Cut the mushrooms into the desired shape
  3. Prepare boiling salted water in a large saucepan
  4. Dip the mushrooms in boiling salted water for about a minute, preferably in a colander
  5. Take the mushrooms out of the water and shock them in ice-cold water

This treatment keeps the puff pastry crisp and keeps its colour. Before freezing, you can add oil and herbs such as parsley, chives, thyme or rosemary. This means that the mushrooms are already in a delicious marinade after defrosting and can be processed further immediately.

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