Do you want to know if chanterelles can be eaten raw? What type of cooking should you use to properly cook your chanterelles? You’ve come to the right place!
Follow the guide!
How Do You Clean Chanterelles Before Cooking?
To properly clean your chanterelles, you must start with the top of the cap, then the underside of the cap. Then finish with the base of the stem to remove the dirt.
Do not hesitate to consult our complete article to find out how to properly clean your chanterelles.
Do Chanterelles Need To Be Cooked?
You can’t eat chanterelles raw! There are many reasons for this, but the main one is not necessarily related to the mushrooms themselves.
Indeed, the real reason to cook your harvest is that a raw mushroom collected in the wild may carry a large number of bacteria or may have been soiled by an animal.
Thus, cooking wild mushrooms is a good guarantee of avoiding food poisoning linked to pathogenic bacteria!
Our Mushroom Maps allow you to collect many mushrooms. And there is no exception, you must cook all harvested mushrooms!
How To Cook Chanterelles?
To cook fresh chanterelles, it is best to sauté them in a little fat. A knob of butter with a little vegetable oil will be perfect for cooking your chanterelles!
Indeed, all you have to do is gently heat your pans, add the condiments you like (shallot, pepper, salt, garlic, chilli…) and add your chanterelles, starting with a gentle cooking so that they are not rubbery.
How Long Do Chanterelles Need To Be Cooked?
It’s easy! You can consider that after 10 minutes of cooking over medium heat, your chanterelles are ready and well cooked through. The ideal being that they lose their cooking water.
You can, of course, prolong the cooking, but don’t forget to sprinkle with a little water or white wine so as not to end up with overcooked or burnt chanterelles.
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