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Choose from the best morel mushroom recipes for a delicious earthy treat. From crispy fried morels to creamy sauces, savor the nutty flavor of these prized mushrooms.
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- Easy Morel Mushroom Recipes
- Buttery Pan Fried Morel Mushrooms
- Classic Fried or Breaded Morels
- Pan Fried Morel Mushrooms
- Air Fryer Morel Mushrooms
- Chesapeake Crab Stuffed Morel Mushrooms
- Stuffed Morel Mushrooms Recipe
- Morel Mushroom Pasta
- buttery morel mushroom truffle pasta
- Springtime Spaghetti Carbonara with Foraged Morel Mushrooms
- Wild Garlic and Morel Risotto
- Morel Mushroom Sauce with Red Wine
- Creamy Morel Mushroom Barley Soup
- Asparagus, Morel and Walleye Soup with Rye Croutons
- Chicken Breast in Creamy Mushroom Sauce
- Pork Chops with Morel Mushroom Brandy Cream Sauce
- morel pasta with cream, parmesan and thyme
- Morel Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Pizza
- Vegan Morel Mushroom Cream Sauce
- Morel Mushroom and Quinoa Salad
- Asparagus and Morel Pizza with Garlic Confit
- What makes morels so expensive?
- What parts of morels are edible?
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Easy Morel Mushroom Recipes
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Buttery Pan Fried Morel Mushrooms
Lightly crisped in savory butter, these pan fried morels are absolutely delicious. So let’s learn where to find morel mushrooms, how to identify morels, and the best way to fry morel mushrooms.
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Classic Fried or Breaded Morels
Morels tossed in a light flour and egg coating and fried, just like my grandmother used to make. Watch your family fight over them!
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Pan Fried Morel Mushrooms
Pan Fried Morel Mushrooms are everything. Freshly picked morels dredged in seasoned flour and pan fried in butter. There’s nothing better.
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Air Fryer Morel Mushrooms
Air Fryer Morel Mushrooms is an earthy, mouthwatering fried morel mushroom recipe! These fried morel mushrooms will keep you coming back for more! They are stuffed with cream cheese and breaded to perfection!
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Chesapeake Crab Stuffed Morel Mushrooms
Crab stuffed morel mushrooms combine the tender prized mushroom with sweet and slightly spicy crabmeat seasoned with old bay.
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Stuffed Morel Mushrooms Recipe
Our easy and delicious recipe for fresh morels stuffed with creamy polenta can only be enjoyed when this wild mushroom is in season.
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Morel Mushroom Pasta
Easy morel pasta in only 10 minutes. These foraged wild mushrooms are bursting with umami and makes a decadent morel pappardelle. Creamy morel mushroom pasta is the ultimate comfort food.
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buttery morel mushroom truffle pasta
There’s no truer definition of a Spring Awakening than bringing spring’s iconic mushroom back from the dead.
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Springtime Spaghetti Carbonara with Foraged Morel Mushrooms
Basically springtime goodness in a bowl, this woodsy take on traditional Carbonara is a great way to highlight your freshly-harvested haul of morel mushrooms. And it’s… so good!
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Wild Garlic and Morel Risotto
Luke Holder’s wild garlic and morel risotto recipe is a stunning example of seasonal springtime cooking. If you can’t get hold of wild garlic, substitute with a mixture of herbs of your choice.
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Morel Mushroom Sauce with Red Wine
The morel mushroom red wine sauce is a very delicious and tasty morel mushroom sauce. It goes very well with especially meat and is perfect with pasta or on top of potatoes.
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Creamy Morel Mushroom Barley Soup
This Creamy Morel Mushroom Barley Soup is an easy and delicious way to get your mushroom fix in a healthy way. Can be made with either fresh or dried morel mushrooms.
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Asparagus, Morel and Walleye Soup with Rye Croutons
This recipe (with its totally addictive miso-butter croutons) is adapted from one served at Larder, a Jewish deli in Cleveland. (Chef Jeremy Umansky is also an expert in Asian fermentation.) The recipe is easily adapted to be vegetarian--just skip the fish for a light spring meal.
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Chicken Breast in Creamy Mushroom Sauce
Quick chicken dinner that’s elegant enough for company - a lightly crusted chicken breast with an incredible creamy mushroom sauce. Simple!
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Pork Chops with Morel Mushroom Brandy Cream Sauce
Pork Chops with Morel Mushroom Brandy Cream Sauce is a one pan job, which is super convenient. The perfect pan for the job is a Lodge cast iron.
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morel pasta with cream, parmesan and thyme
This morel pasta is filled with the rich flavor of morel mushrooms, nutty parmesan and fresh thyme. A decadent pasta dish worthy of morels!
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Morel Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Pizza
Morel Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Pizza Recipe baked to perfection on a homemade pizza dough
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Vegan Morel Mushroom Cream Sauce
Vegan morel cream sauce is the perfect recipe to get the most out of these delicate, meaty mushrooms. Perfectly smooth and creamy.
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Morel Mushroom and Quinoa Salad
This healthy and delicious Morel Mushroom and Quinoa Salad is bursting with earthy flavor. Plant-based, vegetarian, and can be made vegan.
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Asparagus and Morel Pizza with Garlic Confit
This Asparagus and Morel Pizza with Garlic Confit is the perfect way to use your spring produce! Garlicky and cheesy, packed full of flavor and vegetarian!
What makes morels so expensive?
Even during a good fruiting season, the combination of restricted supply due to their biology and high demand results in morel prices often reaching $20-$50 per pound at retail. In lean years, prices can skyrocket even higher for this sought-after delicacy.
Here are some factors that will lead to why the morel is so expensive:
- Short growing season - Morels have a very brief fruiting period of just a few weeks in early spring. This severely limits the supply available each year.
- Difficult to cultivate - Despite many attempts, morels have proven extremely difficult to cultivate commercially on a large scale. Most morels sold are from wild foraging.
- Labor intensive to harvest - Morels must be harvested by hand in the wild, often in remote or hard-to-access forest areas. This requires extensive time and effort.
- Unpredictable fruiting - The specific locations and timing of where morel fruiting bodies will appear varies from year to year based on soil conditions, temperatures, etc. This makes supply unpredictable.
- High demand - Morels are prized by chefs and food enthusiasts for their unique nutty, earthy flavor. This creates a consistently high demand for the limited supply.
- Perishable nature - Fresh morels are highly perishable with only a few days of shelf life. This restricts transportation and storage abilities.
What parts of morels are edible?
As long as the morels are fresh, firm, and have been identified as a true edible species, thoroughly cooking the entire mushroom from cap to base can be safely enjoyed. Proper identification is crucial, as there are some toxic false morel look-alikes.
All parts from the cap down through the stem are safe to consume after proper cleaning and cooking. When collecting morels, you typically want to cut them off at the base, just above the ground level, to retrieve the entire fruiting body.
The only parts that are inedible and should be avoided are any fuzzy, mold-like growths on the mushroom itself, as well as any extremely withered, dried out or rotting portions of older specimens.
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About Sarah Mock
Sarah Mock is a classically trained Chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales University. A culinary blogger for 14 years Sarah helps the home cook prepare her recipes with professional results.
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