During the harvest, there is a lot that you can do to make it easier to clean the mushrooms later on. The stems of hedgehog mushrooms break off quite easily. Snap or cut off the base of the stem right there in the woods before placing them in the basket. This will help prevent a lot of dirt and other contaminants from mixing in. You can also lightly scrape the dirt off of the stems.

After harvesting, sweet tooth mushrooms should be cleaned in order to rid it of any leftover dirt before cooking. There are so many ways to use hedgehog mushrooms. Below, we’ll go over a simple recipe for some delicious sautéed hedgehog mushroom pasta. 

Sautéed Mushroom Pasta Recipe:

• A handful of hedgehog mushrooms

• 2 cloves garlic

• Parsley

• Salt

• Pepper

• Butter

Prepare the tagliatelle pasta (or any other pasta of your choosing) as usual. 

Sweat the hedgehog mushrooms in a dry pan until their waters have been released. Make sure to cook relatively well since they can taste bitter when raw. Dump out the water and then fry the mushrooms in butter with the garlic and parsley for about 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper and it’s ready to be added into the pasta!

Want to find your own? We have mushroom foraging classes all season in Marin, Sonoma, and the Santa Cruz Mountains.