Due to its accessibility and low cost, champignons have earned immense popularity and demand in the field of cooking. Mushrooms show themselves perfectly in fried, boiled, stewed or baked form, can be served as an independent dish, appetizer and side dish. The symbiosis of these mushrooms with cream pleases with special taste qualities. How to cook them, and what ingredients are needed for the dish - later in the article.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Champignons are one of the safest types of mushrooms, which are quite difficult to poison.
However, when choosing raw materials for cooking mushroom dishes, you should pay attention to several important aspects:
- Appearance. Fresh mushrooms should have a dense, elastic flesh, which, when pressed, perfectly springs and takes its previous shape. The color of the inside is pink or creamy pink.
- Colour. Raw high-quality champignons are distinguished by a pleasant white or brown color, do not have yellow spots, traces of rot or mold on the surface.
- Scent. Mushrooms should emit a very faint, almost neutral mushroom smell.
Immediately before the cooking process, it is recommended to rinse the mushrooms, if necessary, clean them.
Important! Since mushrooms are the safest mushrooms, boil them before cooking is not necessary.
Creamy champignon recipe
A wonderful solution for those who prefer to get a quick and tasty dish are champignons with cream. Creamy sauce gives the mushrooms an unusually delicate texture, spicy taste and pleasant aroma, while making the treat hearty and nutritious. You can cook mushrooms with cream in different variations, using a frying pan, slow cooker or oven. The best recipes are presented below.
Classic recipe in a pan
150 g 50 minutes
vegetable oil
2-3 tbsp. l for frying
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Chop the onion in small cubes.
Mushrooms cut into arbitrary slices.
Fry onion raw materials until golden brown. Add chopped garlic.
Add mushrooms to the onion-garlic mixture. Fry until cooked.
Pour the ingredients with cream, bring the mixture to the desired taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Strain the creamy-mushroom mass for 2-3 minutes.
Chop the onion in small cubes.
Mushrooms cut into arbitrary slices.
Fry onion raw materials until golden brown. Add chopped garlic.
Add mushrooms to the onion-garlic mixture. Fry until cooked.
Pour the ingredients with cream, bring the mixture to the desired taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Strain the creamy-mushroom mass for 2-3 minutes.Video recipe
Important! If the mushroom mass is too viscous during the stewing process, add 50–80 ml of boiled water.
Mushrooms in cream sauce in the oven
550 g60 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Rinse mushrooms, cut into slices.
- Fry the mushrooms in butter until the moisture evaporates.
- Grind cheese on a grater.
- Prepare the fill: mix one part of the hard cheese with cream. Bring the sauce to the desired taste, salt and pepper.
- Put the mushrooms in baking pots, fill with cheese fill. Sprinkle with a little remaining cheese.
- Bake cheese-mushroom mixture for 15 minutes at a temperature of + 180 ° C.
Did you know? Champignons have “wild” relatives who grow in open, fertilized manure fields and meadows where cows graze. Wild mushrooms have a more pronounced taste and aroma than artificially grown ones.
Cream of champignons in a slow cooker
600 g 60 minutes
vegetable oil
2-3 tbsp. for frying
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut the onion and garlic into small cubes.
- Pour vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl, lay onion and garlic raw materials. Turn on the "Frying" or "Baking" mode.
- Mushrooms cut into arbitrary slices.
- Add chopped mushrooms to the onion mixture. Cook until excess moisture evaporates.
- Pour onion-mushroom mixture with cream, season with salt and pepper. Set the slow cooker to the "Extinguishing" program.
- Simmer for 30 minutes.
Did you know? Studies have shown that champignons in their composition have more than 20 amino acids, and 9 of them are indispensable and enter the human body only with food.
Mushrooms stewed in cream is a tender, appetizing, low-calorie dish with excellent taste and amazing aroma. It is served with boiled or fried potatoes, meat, herbs. Such a quick and simple dish will be a real salvation if you are suddenly visited by guests.
