Fresh Pine Tree Mushrooms do not need to be peeled before blanching, only the grass clippings on the skin need to be removed, usually before cooking, the use of salt water can effectively remove the grass clippings. After washing, they can be cooked normally. If the skin is peeled then it is a pain in the ass and a waste of the fresh pine mushroom entity.

Clean the pine needles and roots from the mushroom. This mushroom breaks open to the white crunchy flesh inside, like pulp. Blanch them in boiling water for two minutes. Wild fresh mushrooms must be blanched in boiling water before serving because they can be full of tiny bugs. Matsutake mushrooms have a mucus on their surface after blanching, and it is said to be this mucus that prevents cancer.

Expanded Information

Pine mushrooms are a type of mushroom that naturally grows at the foot of pine trees, and are yellowish-brown, with a small amount of bluish-green, and coppery-purple. Generally after the annual Chongyang Festival, from the pine tree under the growth of umbrella-shaped, large as shiitake mushrooms, is pollution-free wild edible fungi; taste delicious, produced numerous, loved by the majority of consumers. Its cooking methods mainly include stewing, stir-frying and other two kinds. Brown-red or dark green pine mushrooms are the best of the mushrooms.

With the pollution of the environment, the number of wild pine mushrooms decreases, such as acid rain changes the pH of the soil (pine mushrooms like neutral or slightly alkaline), and a large number of pine trees cut down is also the reason for the decrease. Soil acidification can also cause strain mutation. In recent years, irregular shapes and whitening of fungal umbels have been picked up on the mountain at home.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Pine Fungus