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Morel

MorchellaAlso called morchella

Morel is an edible mushroom sold fresh or dried. Cooks steam it.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Family
Morchellaceae
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
France
Morel, whole

Photo: Allyzilla · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use morel

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Steam

Shopping

Choosing and storing morel

Choosing a good one

Choose fresh morels when possible. Choose clean morels without decay.

Keeping it

  • Freezer · cooked
Sold as
Dried, Fresh

Nutrition

What 100 g of morel holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 35%Fat 6%Carbohydrate 58%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of morel, raw
Energy31 kcal · 129 kJ
Protein3.1 g
Fat0.57 g
of which saturated0.07 g
Carbohydrate5.1 g
of which sugars0.6 g
Fibre2.8 g
Sodium21 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of morel, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium411 mg
Calcium43 mg
Iron12 mg
Magnesium19 mg
Zinc2 mg
Folate9 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 168423), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with morel

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Poularde aux morilles

    France

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include morel.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: morel in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
edible mushroom

Around the world

What morel is called

Names in 64 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Morchella · colmenilla · cagarria · mangarria

  • French

    Morchella

  • Italian

    Morchella

  • Portuguese

    Morchella

  • German

    Morcheln · Morchella · Morchel

  • Dutch

    morielje · Morchella

  • Greek

    Μορχέλα

  • Turkish

    Morchella

  • Russian

    сморчок

  • Polish

    Smardz · Morchella

  • Arabic

    غوشنة · قائمة أنواع الغوشنة · موريل · أنواع الغوشنة

  • Persian

    کرکونوسه

Show all 64 languages

  • Albanian

    Morchella

  • Aragonese

    Morchella

  • Asturian

    Morchella

  • Basque

    karraspina · Morchella

  • Belarusian

    смаржок · змаршчок · страчок · весялок

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    смаржок · змаршчок · страчок · весялок

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Morchella

  • Bulgarian

    смръчкула · Morchella

  • Cantonese

    羊肚菌

  • Catalan

    múrgola · Morchella

  • Cebuano

    Morchella

  • Chinese

    羊肚菌屬

  • Croatian

    Smrčci · Morchella

  • Czech

    smrž · Morchella

  • Danish

    morkel

  • Egyptian Arabic

    غوشنه

  • Erzya

    Суро панго

  • Esperanto

    Morkelo · Morchella

  • Estonian

    mürkel · Morchella

  • Extremaduran

    Morchella

  • Finnish

    huhtasienet · Morchella

  • Galician

    Morchella

  • Georgian

    ხარისფაშვა

  • Hebrew

    גמצוץ

  • Hindi

    मोर्चेल्ला · Gucchi

  • Hungarian

    Morchella

  • Ido

    Morelo · Morchella

  • Indonesian

    Morchella

  • Interlingua

    Morchella

  • Interlingue

    Morchella

  • Irish

    morchal · Morchella

  • Japanese

    アミガサタケ属

  • Kazakh

    Тыржыңқұлақ немесе Қозықұйрық

  • Korean

    곰보버섯속

  • Latin

    Morchella

  • Latvian

    Lāčpurni · Morchella

  • Lithuanian

    briedžiukas · Morchella

  • Northern Frisian

    Morcheln · Morchella

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    ekte morkler · Morchella

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    Morchella

  • Occitan

    Morchella

  • Ossetic

    Æнцъылдтæ зокъо

  • Quechua

    Wiksa-wiksa · Morchella

  • Romanian

    Zbârciog · Morchella

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Smrčci · Morchella

  • Simplified Chinese

    羊肚菌属

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    羊肚菌属

  • Slovak

    smrčok · Morchella

  • Slovenian

    Smrčki

  • Swedish

    Morchella

  • Swiss High German

    Morcheln · Morchella

  • Tatar

    Җыерчалы гөмбәләр

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    羊肚菌屬

  • Ukrainian

    Morchella

  • Urdu

    گچھی

  • Vietnamese

    Morchella

  • Volapük

    Morchella

  • Waray

    Morchella

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q371101

Photos

Photo: Allyzilla · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons