If you read my last post, you know that on my short hike yesterday, my friends and I found four entire edible mushrooms (I've been on hunts where we find hundreds, so this is laughable for many Czechs, but I was still happy)
These are "bedla" mushrooms, and normally you'd harvest them when they were bigger, but I'd had such little mushroom-hunting success that we picked them. My Czech friends confirmed their edible-ness, and advised me to make řízek (snitzel). Snitzel is something breaded and fried, generally pork or chicken here, but it's also common to do it with bedla mushrooms.
My friend gave me this recipe: mix an egg with a little milk, salt and pepper. Dip the mushroom caps in the egg then in bread crumbs. Then fry it.
I found a recipe online that recommended three steps of breading: First, flour with a little carraway (kmín). Second, egg beaten with salt and pepper. Third, bread crumbs. I opted for this version because, while I was pretending to be Czech, I might as well add kmín, the most Czech of all spices.
DELICIOUS! (though I'd use less oil next time)
This is a before and after:
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