Mushrooms are a priceless gift given to us by nature. They come from the wonders and mysteries that our entire organic world has.
Mushrooms are an independent kingdom in this big world, it contains about 100 thousand species. One of them is called common boletus. He looks very nice, even in the photos he is quite attractive.
Common boletus: a brief description
In nature, there are close to forty species of boletus. For a long time, the common boletus has been considered the largest in size and the most valuable in its group. This mushroom is called by different names in each locality: birch, boletus, blackhead or obabok. It is one of the best, if you do not take into account the white fungus, of which it is a close relative and bears a strong resemblance to it.
The common boletus differs from others in its slimy hat red -brown color, which in dry weather shines against the sun. In a young mushroom, it has a convex shape, similar to a sphere. The pores are white, sometimes becoming creamy. As it grows, the hat becomes pillow-shaped, decrepit, reaches a large size, an experienced mushroom picker is unlikely to put such a find in his basket.
The leg is 70-160 cm high, 15-30 mm thick, white, with brown scales on top, thickened at the bottom.
The pulp is odorless, tasteless, white-cream in color, which does not change when cut.
Mushrooms grow very quickly, full maturity occurs on the seventh day, and after two or three days they become unusable.
Common boletus: habitats
The boletus has a "talking name", by saying which, you can accurately name the place of its settlement - where birch trees grow.
Mushrooms of this species begin to grow at the very beginning of summer and yield until late autumn. In some years, their abundance is found in deciduous, birch and mixed forests. There are cases when birch trees settle where spruce grows.
If summer and autumn are warm and rainy, you can hope for a big harvest, especially under young birches. Collecting boletus is easy and convenient, they are always in sight and never hide in the grass.
Use in cooking
Mushroom pickers, going out on a quiet hunt, always have a desire to see a boletus in their basket. The use in cooking is wide: it is dried, boiled, pickled. He has a pleasantthe smell is delicious in itself, only young mushrooms are suitable for s alting.
The main value is the presence of protein, essential amino acids, vitamins, which helps to remove everything unnecessary from the body, like a vacuum cleaner.
Before you start cooking mushroom dishes, you need to know some rules.
• How long to boil? If the mushrooms are young, you don't need to boil them, but if they are old, the cooking time should be 20 minutes.
• How to clean them? The leg of the common boletus should be cleaned, removing the roughness or spongy layers by scraping if the mushroom is old.
• How to cook? There are many recipes for dishes that include mushrooms. The common boletus is equated to white, and their use in cooking is the same. You can cook in sour cream, with potatoes, in soup, add to salads.• Mushrooms must be processed as quickly as possible, literally within four to five hours after picking.
He alth Use
In folk medicine, the boletus mushroom has long been known. The description of its influence on important vital functions of a person was set out in ancient books.
Obabok has been known to mushroom pickers for a long time, it attracts not only with its good taste, but also with the presence of useful properties: the ability to remove toxins from the body and maintain kidney function in good condition.
Boletus is effective in the treatment of the nervous system. It is allowed to be used in dietary nutrition because of its ability to regulate blood sugar. Those who add common boletus (mushrooms) to their diet havehe althy beautiful skin, and those who want to lose extra pounds can also eat boletus, which have too low a calorie content.
Mushrooms are contraindicated for people with stomach ulcers or intestinal diseases, and in cases of intolerance, it is also forbidden for children.
Common boletus is a very tasty mushroom, you can not argue with that. Dry it, cook it tasty, treat people close to you, feed them plenty. Such a treat will be much better and he althier than candy. Let the mushrooms grow and multiply, and maybe in difficult lean years they will help fill our bins.
