How To Clean and Cook WILD Morel Mushrooms FREE Recipe!!!
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Free Quick and Easy Mushroom, Morel guide to cleaning and cooking
Hello everyone, I have been finding morel mushrooms since I was a little kid. As mentioned in one of my other article's, I gave you a guide on how to find Morel Mushrooms, now I am giving you a guide on what to do with them once you have found the ever so popular morel mushroom.
First you want to start by taking a knife and chopping off any dirt that you find on the stem.
Second you want to get all of the bugs out of them, the first thing you want to do is split them down the middle long ways with a knife.
Next you want to run them under some water washing out all of the bugs. Once you have washed the bugs out you want to place them in a bowl of salt water. 2 Tablespoons of salt per bowl of water should be enough. You can use the regular salt found at your local grocery store.
After cleaning all of your mushrooms, you want to let them soak in the salt water over night. This will continue to clean off and kill any insects that you may have missed.
Once the soaking process is done, you need to determine how you want to cook them.
I like to take 3 bowls and fill one with flour, and the Second one with cracker crumbs and the Third one with beat up eggs.
The first thing you do is soak the morel in the egg bowl, then you roll the morel in the flour and last roll it in the cracker crumbs.
Once you have completed the Three bowl system, place your morels in a frying pan that has heated up on medium heat with about a quarter of a cup of vegetable oil in it.
I like to cook my morels until then are golden brown, but you can cook them less or more depending on your liking.
Last step is to take a plate and place a paper towel on top of it. This will assist you in absorbing the left over vegetable oil.
Use a fork or something to scoop the mushrooms out of the pan and place them on the paper towel.
I like to add salt to mine, but again you can use your personal preference.
Allow to cool and enjoy.
This concludes my quick and easy guide to cleaning and cooking morel mushrooms.
Last but not least remember that these treats are very rich and if you eat too many of them you can get sick.
I have heard that once you get sick on them, you will not want to eat them again for a very long time, so be sure to eat them in moderation.
Thank you and I welcome all positive feedback and comments that I can get. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.
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Comments
Thanks for the comment Chef Jeff. I am just south of IL, so I know exactly what you are talking about. I have never had asparragus with my mushrooms, but some fresh asparragus and butter does sound good right now. You are making me hungry lol.
Great food. I so want to eat something now.
The bugs are the grossest part! It's so weird when they crawl out of the shrooms!
they are gross at times, but better to have them out of the shrooms instead of in them lol. Thanks for reading my hub.
How to clean and cook wild Morel Mushrooms free recipe
Very creative
chopped up and sauteyed in omelets is very tasty to
i love them sooooo much and your recipe was good but u should try egg and then roll them in jiffy corn muffin mix and fry yum yum gives them a sweet and salty taste but doesnt take away from the natural
Hi, I just picked about 24 Morel Mushrooms. How do you store them?
store them unwashed, uncut, and in a container with no water. they will keep longer this way...10-15 days. they are better if cooked sooner rather than later. when ready to cook: split in half, soak in salted water 8 hrs (to rehydrate and kill the bugs), rinse, roll in flour, fry in butter until both sides are golden, and add salt to taste
soak the mushrooms in the fridge, not at room temperature
Thanks for answering the questions Indy. I agree with you, and the fresher the better after you soak them in salt water that is. I went mushroom hunting yesterday but didn't have any luck. My sister found 14 in her yard though lol.
Thanks for the great advice! I just got 7#'s of them and my son is looking for more. They are huge! I read that there are also poisonous ones! Do you know what they look like? Thanks again
The poisonous ones have a reddish color to them. They just don't look right.
I live in central nebraska, a friend and I went to our boss's fathers house kinda out in the middle of nowhere and hit the jackpot, we picked about 40 lbs of these little beauties, some of them are about as big as a softball. Soaking them right now but looking for a technique to freeze them.
is it okay to freeze them for later.
Thanks so much for all the info regarding Morels. My husband and I found some in our yard today and wanted to know how to cook them. So glad I found this site!!!
You are most welcome. That is what I am here for. Thanks for the feedback.
Still have sand or dirt in mushrooms after freezing. Can did not split them most were small. Can I still split them and wash again and refreeze?
me and my mom love to morel hunt its something we can do together and we love eating them but we could never fully get them clean to cook them so thanks for the tips and i hope they work.
have had morels before and love them, but we have always bought them. yes you can freeze them. clean them, after being in the salt water. rinse off, let dry on a towel, roll them in flour. we lay them on a cookie sheet and freeze them individually, then we vaccum seal them and place in the freezer. enjoy with a nice thick steak in the winter. I will say that here in iowa they are getting to be 18 dollars a pound and in wisconsin it is 27 dollars a pound.. so i am proud to say we went morel hunting and came home for the first time with more than 3 pounds. Happy eating and Happy hunting....
Try using a salad spinner after soaking to get water and sand off before cooking.
June 9, 2011 - Important Comment...in 2003 I prepared morels we found on our property in Eastern Oregon. My husband and I enjoyed the meal and unfortunately about 4 hours later in the night my husband became very ill vomiting on and off for several hours. I had no reactions to the morels. Two weeks later we dined in a nearby restaurant and I ordered a morel appetizer, husband ate one small morel and once again he had the same experience of being ill all night long. Since then he has avoided eating the little morsels. Prior to his unpleasant reaction my husband had grown up eating morels in Ohio.
YESTERDAY, my husband and his friend after walking around our ranch came home with dozens of morels; we prepared them as an appetizer to enjoy with our cocktails, wonderful tasty treats. My husband decided to risk trying them again after many years of abstaining from the mushrooms, he had perhaps 6. No upset before going to bed and just incase he was going to have a reaction I had him take 2 capsules of a strong pro-biotic to offer some protection to his stomach, no problems fortunately. So on occasion for a treat I will prepare some morels when they are in season or grab a bag from the freezer.
WARNING FROM ANN....A short time ago I wrote the above comments and regret I did so. My husband left this morning to play golf before I awoke and I assumed that because he wasn't up vomiting throughout the night all was well with the few mushrooms he ate. NOT SO...I just spoke to him awhile ago and he indicated that throughout the night his stomach was queasy and uncomfortable, well enough to play golf but intends to never eat morels again. BOTTOM LINE, even though it had been a number of years since last eating the mushrooms it is not a wise thing to try them again once a person has had an allergic reaction. Better be safe than sorry.
I had read on the internet somewhere that it can be dangerous to eat them with alchohol. don't know if this is true or not, but could this have caused the bad reactions?
i like this without flour just egg then crushed saltines with pepper!! yummm
We just tried frying them by using the cornbread mix. We went ahead & made the mix like you would for making muffins but slightly runnier. Then dipped the mushrooms in the mix and set on a try to drip a bit then fried them in peanut oil! OMG!! Totally a wonderful treat! Be careful - very rich - don't eat too many or you may make yourself sick!! Thanks for posting the idea on here!
Well, after hearing all the comments, I am going to make some tonight. I hope they turn out and thanks for the tips.
i ate morels today and my wife did too now her stomach quessy and throwing up what should u do
After reading some of these comments, I'll just stick to the grocery store mushrooms thank you!!
I love them, yum!
glutton for punishment, I always get sick about 4hrs after I eat them.
Chef Jeff 4 years ago
Where I used to live in Galena, IL, morels, or Hobies as the old folks called them, grew in abundance, wild and free, especially where ever there was downed timber or next to the old railroad ties were piled up. The ties were non-creosoted, elm and oak, and the morels grew in fields like tupips in Holland!
I used to wash them in salt water to get the bugs out, then fry them up in butter or olive oil, and just eat them like there was no tomorrow! Which, in the case of morels, may be more true than not, since they were often here today and gone tomorrow.
Of course, we also had wild asparragus, and if they happened to come at the same time, morels & asparragus go well together!
Bon appetit!