My refrigerator is so smelly. So i thought i better just fry them up. Next time ill cook then freeze. Throwing the treasure trove out now. I froze a puffball straightaway after picking a few months ago.
Took it out of freezer today and it had shrunk a lot with quite a lot of yellow fluid in the plastic bag I put it in. Did not smell putrid, but there was a strong nutty flavour and so I cut up and fried them.
They browned nicely and had a strong taste. I ate quite. A bit. But then grew wary as the taste was really strong. Waiting to see if there are any bad effects. You can defrost in the refrigerator, or on the counter for an hour or so in a pinch. To reheat, use a wet method: pasta sauce, or some other way to hold in moisture, like breading and frying.
Yet in this recipe to prepare them you say to freeze them whole and raw then saw them out slice roll them out with the rolling pin and then freeze again raw. Is this not correct? Thanks for all your great recipes! An old comment before I had experimented with freezing them from raw, for whatever reason, freezing from raw works with puffballs, but not with many others. Hericiums are ruined by the process and change color, for example.
I have found morell many times ,but am causious about these. They are bleach white basketball size that grew after the recent snow in MW MN. Who can tell me they are what I think they are. Puffballs are very easy to identify. Thank you fir great info, I learned a lot! Hi , I found a giant puffball and by everything I read, it was in good shape — pure white with tofu like texture.
Then I stated to come across some references to toxins and alcohol. Before I share my creation, I would like to know more about this combination as it relates to the giant puffball. Can you help? So I cooked mine up in a risotto, then froze some in a box sealed as soon as it cooled, for 2 weeks. There are some hard gristly bits that appear to be mushroom.. Which is weird because I ate a portion before freezing and there were no hard bits then..
Will a knife bruise the flesh of a giant puff ballI? I cut three a neighbor gave me. It could slightly bruise them. A very safe mushroom. I found a nice patch of little brown puffballs on a tree today! I stir-fried them whole and they tasted nice. Hi Laure, yes, some mushrooms are dangerous, and some are tasty. Hi, not sure if you still see these comments, but I have a question. They were perfectly white before I put them in. I just want to make sure they are still safe to eat.
Please let me know. Thanks, Jen. That being said, as long as you can get them cracker dry, and you heat them in boiling water, gravy, etc, they would never hurt you. Thank you for the advice. I will do so. I powdered the rest and saved the ones that yellowed while drying in a separate bag. I picked a few last week and fried them up.. I use to eat them all the time when I was a kid. We would clean and slice them up dip in egg and flour and fry in oil in skillet.
I have a crop of these every year right my yard, and could have been feasting everything September for the last 4 years had I known lol. Lucky you. I thank you for the preparation tips. Never eat a foraged mushroom you are not completely sure of and always consult an expert. When small, puffballs can be confused with another mushroom in its immature phase. Shymko hunts with confidence, but for a newbie, stick to the safest bet — the giant puffball.
And always be cautious of lookalikes. Like many wild foods, each hunting season is different, and the window of opportunity for foraging and feasting is fleeting. I was like a kid in a candy store picking puffballs!
When preparing puffballs for eating, that first cut will deliver important information about its age and edibility; it should be pure white inside. Only eat the pure white parts. Inside, the texture ranges from quite firm to as soft as angel food cake. Like the everyday button mushroom, puffballs can be a plain as tofu, and just as receptive of seasonings, and highly absorbent of liquids and fats.
Giant puffballs can be cooked any way you might cook a button mushroom: in curries, fried, in soup, with pasta sauce, on pizza, breaded and deep fried, on and on. The skin can be a bit leathery and hold some soil or forest floor debris. Storing puffballs correctly is key. What are puffball mushrooms? Puffballs are a group of mushrooms that includes several different species.
All true puffballs are edible, although there are some false puffballs and lookalikes to watch out for. They grow as solid spheres of fungus without any gills, caps, or stems.
So most people are unfamiliar with them. If you ever found a strange alien-like ball or egg-shaped sac in the forest that seemed to release a massive cloud of smoke or dust when you stepped on it or kicked it, that was a puffball!
What you experienced was a fully mature puffball releasing its spores. They mature and release clouds of spores when the mushroom bursts or something makes contact with it. Young ones are solid balls of spongy tissue. This makes them relatively easy to spot in nature, since they can be quite large, round, and white. All true puffballs are edible if picked young enough.
Fun fact: The largest giant puffball ever found was discovered by a schoolboy in Yorkshire in It measured centimeters or Correctly identifying puffball mushrooms before eating them is very important. There are several species of poisonous Amanita mushrooms that can look similar to puffballs during their early growth stages. Once you get a puffball mushroom home, the first thing you should do is cut it in half.
The inside flesh should be thick, hard, and solid white. Discard any suspected puffballs that have the shape of a mushroom or evidence of gills inside of them, or any brown, black, yellow, or purple coloration inside of them. True puffballs will be solid white inside.
Anything else is a different type of mushroom that may cause an upset stomach or even severe poisoning. Only young puffballs are edible.
But come back a week later to the same area, and you may find that new puffballs have cropped up. Kitchen Tips and Tools. Delish Shop. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Arterra Getty Images. This content is imported from TikTok. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
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