Chicken of the woods on old wild cherry stump

[awarner]

Hopefully I have got the ID correct, found this the other day and wondering what I can do with it ie best simple cooking technique to get the best flavour?

 

[Mesquite]

Looks like CotW to me

 

[bob_the_baker]

Can sometimes be bitter so a quick poaching in milk before frying, adding to a stew will remove that risk

 

[barbourdurham]

ive eaten this before. straight from the tree, after slicing thinly and cooking on the embers of the fire and adding to chicken soup. It was a nice result. I've also been a bit flash. I cut it into chip sized chunks, used salt, pepper and smoked paprika, then fried the chicken chips in the pan. Now, those were really nice!

 

[awarner]

So I did a combination of the above, fried in a bit of flora with salt pepper and the smoked paprika....

I will be looking out for this more often, great bit of seasonal food.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[barbourdurham]

So I did a combination of the above, fried in a bit of flora with salt pepper and the smoked paprika....

I will be looking out for this more often, great bit of seasonal food.

Thanks for the advice.

what did you make of it.....?

 

[awarner]

Bloody lovely, firm texture, sliced into strips about 5mm.
There's a bit more where it came from but I don't want to be greedy and take it all.

Glad I finally tried it, certainly on my favourite foraging list.

One question though, can the wood it grows on change the flavour?

 

[barbourdurham]

Mmm not sure. I guess you'd think the wood would affect the flavour but I'm not expert. Glad you enjoyed it. It's one of my favorites. I used to collect some off the same tree in the town park every year for about 4 years. But then one day, the council chopped the host tree down to make room for three car parking spaces! Gutted I was...

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[Nice65]

Mmm not sure. I guess you'd think the wood would affect the flavour but I'm not expert. Glad you enjoyed it. It's one of my favorites. I used to collect some off the same tree in the town park every year for about 4 years. But then one day, the council chopped the host tree down to make room for three car parking spaces! Gutted I was...

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It's likely the council tree officer had been monitoring that tree as CotW causes heart rot. As it was in a public place it would have been felled for safety reasons.

 

[barbourdurham]

It's likely the council tree officer had been monitoring that tree as CotW causes heart rot. As it was in a public place it would have been felled for safety reasons.

If the safety reason included extending a car park by three spaces then yes.......lol

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