Light Mushroom Soup Food

HOMEMADE CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Cut the mushrooms into slices.
• Melt butter in large frying pan. Add in onions, garlic, and mushrooms. Cook until onions are soft.
• Blend in 2 T. flour and stir.
• Add in the chicken broth and heat until slightly thickened while stirring frequently.
• Stir cream with additional 1 T. flour and seasonings. Add in cream to soup. Heat to thicken while stirring frequently.
• Serve and enjoy!

SKINNY CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Fry bacon in a stockpot over medium heat until it is semi-crispy, about 5 minutes. Stir in potatoes and onion and cook until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Mix in mushrooms, garlic powder, and onion powder; cook and stir until mushrooms have softened, about 5 minutes more.
• Pour water and milk over mushroom mixture, add thyme and flour, and bring to a boil. Boil until potatoes are very soft, adding water as needed, about 20 minutes. Crush some of the potatoes with a wooden spoon to reach a creamier consistency. Season with salt and pepper.

MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Method
• In the medium saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons/28 g of the butter over medium heat and add the onion. Cook until the onion is soft and translucent, then add the mushrooms and the remaining butter. Let the mixture sweat for about 8 minutes, taking care that the onion doesn't take on any brown color. Stir in the chicken stock and the parsley and bring to a boil. Immediately reduce the heat and simmer for about an hour.
• After an hour, remove the parsley and discard. Let the soup cool for a few minutes, then transfer to the blender and carefully blend at high speed until smooth. Do I have to remind you to do this in stages, with the blender's lid firmly held down, and with the weight of your body keeping that thing from flying off and allowing boiling hot mushroom purée to erupt all over your kitchen?
• When blended, return the mix to the pot, season with salt and pepper, and bring up to a simmer again. Add the sherry, mix well, and serve immediately.
• Improvisation
• To astound your guests with a Wild Mushroom Soup, simply replace some of those button mushrooms with a few dried cèpes or morels, which have been soaked until soft, drained, and squeezed. Not too many; the dried mushrooms will have a much stronger taste, and you don't want to overwhelm the soup. Pan sear, on high heat, a single small, pretty, fresh chanterelle or morel for each portion, and then slice into a cute fan and float on top in each bowl.
• And if you really want to ratchet your soup into pretentious (but delicious), drizzle a few tiny drops of truffle oil over the surface just before serving. Why the hell not? Everybody else is doing it.

LIGHT MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• In a 2 1/2-quart souffle dish, melt butter, uncovered at 100 percent power for 1 minute 15 seconds. Meanwhile, finely chop mushrooms in food processor. Add to melted butter, with scallions and celery leaves. Stir to coat with butter. Cook, uncovered, at 100 percent power for 3 minutes or until mushrooms look limp.
• Dissolve cornstarch in chicken broth. Add chicken broth mixture, cream, cumin, dill seed and dried boletus, if used, to mushrooms. Cover tightly with polyvinyl plastic wrap. Cook at 100 percent power for 6 minutes. Pierce plastic to release steam. Season with salt, lemon juice and hot pepper sauce. Serve hot.

SLOW-COOKER MUSHROOM SOUP WITH SHERRY

Steps:

• Pour 2 cups of the boiling water over the porcini mushrooms. Let stand 20 minutes.
• Drain the porcini mushrooms in a colander over a bowl, reserving the mushroom broth; set the mushrooms aside.
• Strain the mushroom broth through a cheesecloth-lined colander into a bowl; discard the solids.
• Stir in the cornstarch, soy sauce, salt, pepper, and remaining 2 cups boiling water into the mushroom broth; set aside.
• Heat the oil in a medium-sized nonstick skillet over medium-high.
• Add the shallots and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, until the shallots are soft, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Add the sherry; bring to a boil, and cook 30 seconds. Remove from the heat.
• Stir together the porcini mushrooms, broth mixture, shallot mixture, fresh mushrooms, and thyme in a 5-quart slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on HIGH until the vegetables are very tender and the flavors blend, about 4 hours.
• Uncover and cook until slightly thickened, about 20 minutes.
• Transfer 2 cups of the soup to a blender.
• Remove the center piece of the blender lid (to allow steam to escape); secure the lid on the blender.
• Place a clean towel over the opening in the blender lid (to avoid splatters).
• Blend until smooth, about 10 seconds.
• Return the puréed soup to the slow cooker; gently stir in the cream. Ladle the soup into bowls, and serve hot.

HEALTHY MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Slightly rinse the mushrooms with cold water to remove any dirt or debris and pat dry with paper towels (do not soak them). Slice half of the mushrooms and roughly chop the other half.
• In a large saucepan, heat 1 Tbsp of olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and garlic and cook gently for about 3 minutes. Add the mushrooms, thyme, a good pinch of salt and pepper. Cook, stirring regularly, until the mushrooms start to brown, about 5 minutes. Spoon out 3 tablespoons of mushrooms and keep them for later (if you like to serve the soup topped with saute' mushrooms).
• Stir in the second Tbsp of oil, add the flour and cook, stirring constantly for about 30 seconds to a minute. The flour, the oil and part of the mushroom moisture will form a thick paste called roux that will thicken the broth.
• Add the vegetable broth and stir while returning the mixture to a boil. You want to dissolve all of the flour from the bottom of the pot. After a couple of minutes, as soon as the liquid comes up to a simmer, reduce the heat to medium-low and add the milk.
• Simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally, for about 15-20 minutes.
• Finally, add the soya sauce and cook for a further minute.Taste and adjust seasoning, as necessary (it depends on the salt content of your vegetable broth)*
• Spoon the soup into bowls, garnish with the remaining mushrooms and a drizzle of olive oil. Serve with toasted bread on the side and enjoy!

MUSHROOM SOUP WITHOUT CREAM

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot, sauté the diced onion for 3-4 minutes. Add the crushed garlic and chopped thyme. Stir for an additional 3 minutes.
• Add the sliced mushrooms and sauté for 5-8 minutes until softened and cooked through.
• Add the flour, stir and cook for 3-4 minutes.
• Pour in the vegetable stock, stir and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes.
• Remove ½ of the soup and blend in a blender until smooth. Return the blended soup to the pot, add the milk and seasonings, stir through and bring to a simmer.
• Taste the soup for seasoning. Add more salt if needed. Top with one tablespoon of chopped parsley.
• Serve with a sprinkling of cracked pepper.

ULTRA LIGHT PORTABELLA MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Heat 4 tablespoons of butter in a pan on medium heat. Saute onions until softened, about 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and thyme, and cook for an additional 2 minutes while constantly stirring.
• Stir in chopped mushrooms and any fragments from the sliced mushrooms. Stir in thoroughly to coat with the contents of the pan. Stir occasionally for 20 minutes, allowing some moisture to evaporate from the mushrooms.
• Add stock to the pan and lower heat to medium-low. Cook for half an hour uncovered.
• Pour contents of the pan into a blender and puree until is achieves desired consistency. Return to the pan. Season with salt and pepper, adjusting to taste.

MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Sprinkle the mushrooms with lemon juice. In a food processor, coarsely chop them.
• Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan and lightly saute the shallots. Add the mushrooms, thyme, and bay leaf and saute over moderate heat for 10 minutes, or until the liquid disappears. Add the salt, pepper, cream, and chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add the cornstarch to the soup and continue to simmer 10 minutes longer, stirring constantly. Correct seasoning to taste.
• Serve in warm bowls. Sprinkle with minced parsley.