Russian Mushroom And Potato Soup 699 Food

MUSHROOM & POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large pan. Tip in the onions and fry for 10 mins until golden. Meanwhile, pour 1.2 litres boiling water over the dried mushrooms and stir in the bouillon.
• Add the fresh mushrooms and garlic to the pan with the potatoes, thyme and carrots, and continue to fry until the mushrooms soften and start to brown.
• Pour in the dried mushrooms and stock, cover the pan and leave to simmer for 20 mins. Stir in the parsley and plenty of pepper. Ladle into bowls and serve each portion topped with 2 tbsp yogurt and a quarter of the walnuts. The rest can be chilled and reheated the next day.

RUSSIAN MUSHROOM AND POTATO SOUP (LIGHTER VERSION)

Steps:

• 1. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add leeks and carrots, and cook 5 minutes. Pour in broth. Season with dill, salt, pepper, and bay leaf. Add potatoes, cover, and cook 20 minutes, or until potatoes are tender but firm. Remove and discard the bay leaf.
• 2. Heat remaining olive oil in a skillet over medium heat, and sauté the mushrooms for 5 minutes, or until lightly browned. Stir sautéed mushrooms into the soup.
• 3. In a small bowl, mix the sour cream and flour until smooth, and stir into the soup to thicken.
• 4. To serve, garnish each bowl of soup with a sprig of fresh dill and crumbled bacon (if desired).

RUSSIAN MUSHROOM AND POTATO SOUP (LIGHTER VERSION)

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add leeks and carrots, and cook 5 minutes. Pour in broth. Season with dill, salt, pepper, and bay leaf. Add potatoes, cover, and cook 20 minutes, or until potatoes are tender but firm. Remove and discard the bay leaf.
• Heat remaining olive oil in a skillet over medium heat, and sauté the mushrooms for 5 minutes, or until lightly browned. Stir sautéed mushrooms into the soup.
• In a small bowl, mix the sour cream and flour until smooth, and stir into the soup to thicken.
• To serve, garnish each bowl of soup with a sprig of fresh dill.

RUSSIAN MUSHROOM AND BARLEY SOUP

Steps:

• If using dried mushrooms, soak them in 1/2 cup of hot water for about 20 minutes.
• Slice and set aside, reserving soaking water, too.
• Put the oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven,add 2 tablespoons of the butter and melt the butter over medium heat.
• Saute the onions and garlic, stirring occasionally, until the onions are translucent.
• Stir in the consomme and water and add the potato, celery, carrots, bay leaves, dill, barley and the reconstituted mushrooms and soaking water.
• Add salt and pepper to taste, bring the soup to the boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered, about 15 minutes (about an hour if using regular barley), until the barley is tender.
• Clean the fresh mushrooms, cut off and discard woody stem ends, and cut the smaller mushrooms in half and the larger ones into quarters.
• Melt the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter in a frying pan and saute the mushrooms until some liquid has been yielded and no raw color shows.
• Stir mushrooms and liquid into the soup and simmer 5 minutes.
• Remove and discard the bay leaves.
• Just before serving, put the sour cream in a medium bowl and stir a cup or so of hot soup into it to temper it.
• Stir the diluted sour cream into the soup and serve immediately (don't cook the sour cream), garnished if you like with strips of lemon zest.

RUSSIAN BARLEY MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Thoroughly rinse the mushrooms under cold water.
• Soak the mushrooms in the 6 cups of water for at least one hour (Ideally four to eight hours). Don't drain the water.
• Reserve the mushroom water (it will be dark in color).
• Uniformly chop the mushrooms and return to the water.
• Add the mushrooms, water, and chicken stock into a large cooking pot (7.5 qt or so).
• Bring to boil.
• Add the barley and cook until the barley is tender. This will be about 10 minutes with 'quick' barley or about 35 minutes with regular.
• While the barley is cooking, peel and cube the potatoes to about 3/4 inch cubes.
• Cut up the onions and saute them in a skillet until golden.
• Finely chop the cooked onions.
• Chop the carrots.
• Once the barley is tender, put the potatoes, carrots, onions, salt, and pepper into the pot.
• On low-med heat cook until the potatoes are done.
• When serving, add two tablespoons of sour cream and finely chopped parsley to each bowl of soup as garnish.

RUSSIAN MUSHROOM AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Mix in leeks and carrots, and cook 5 minutes. Pour in broth. Season with dill, salt, pepper, and bay leaf. Mix in potatoes, cover, and cook 20 minutes, or until potatoes are tender but firm. Remove and discard the bay leaf.
• Melt the remaining butter in a skillet over medium heat, and saute the mushrooms 5 minutes, until lightly browned. Stir into the soup.
• In a small bowl, mix the half-and-half and flour until smooth. Stir into the soup to thicken.
• To serve, garnish each bowl of soup with fresh dill.

RUSSIAN POTATO MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• melt 3 tbs of butter in a large saucepan.
• saute carrot, onion and celery about 5 minutes.
• add potatoes, dill, salt, pepper and broth.
• bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer about 20 mins until potatoes are tender but not mush.
• take out about 1/4 of the veggies and mash or puree them in a blender and return it to the pot (this is optional but I think it's better).
• stir flour into cream until smooth and add it to the pot.
• stir in sour cream until smooth.
• simmer until it thickens to desired consistency.
• i serve this with fresh baked bread and salad.

RUSSIAN MUSHROOM AND POTATO SOUP [699]

Steps:

• Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Mix in leeks and carrots, and cook 5 minutes. Pour in broth. Season with dill, salt, pepper, and bay leaf. Mix in potatoes, cover, and cook 20 minutes, or until potatoes are tender but firm. Remove and discard the bay leaf. Melt the remaining butter in a skillet over medium heat, and saute the mushrooms 5 minutes, until lightly browned. Stir into the soup. In a small bowl, mix the half-and-half and flour until smooth. Stir into the soup to thicken. Garnish each bowl of soup with fresh dill to serve.

MUSHROOM AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and thyme. Cook for 5 minutes stirring frequently. Add the potatoes and cook for a further 5 minutes.
• Increase to high heat and add the mushrooms and cook for a further 5 minutes.
• Add the vegetable stock and bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Blend or process soup, pour into a clean saucepan and stir in the cream. Season with salt and pepper and heat gently.
• Serve in bowls sprinkled with thyme and rye bread toast.

RUSSIAN POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a 6 quart pot add potatoes and celery plus enough water to cover plus add enough to fill 1/2 of the space to the top of the pot.
• Bring to a boil and simmer until potatoes are soft.
• In the meantime in a skillet brown the onion in oil until they are medium brown in color.
• Add the flour to the browned onions and stir for about 1 minute.
• Add the bullion cubes.
• Add enough potato water from the pot to cover the mixture, stir well.
• Pour the onion mixture back into the pot.
• Add water to within 1 inch of the top of the pot.
• Add black pepper plus extra to taste.
• Bring to a boil.
• Simmer for 30 minutes.

CREAMY POTATO-MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a Dutch oven over medium heat until crisp.
• Remove bacon from pan; crumble and set aside.
• Add mushrooms , shallots and garlic to bacon drippings in pan; sauté 5 minutes or until the mushrooms are soft. Remove from pan; set aside.
• Add potato and broth to pan, bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer.
• Place potato mixture in a food processor or blender, and process until smooth.
• Return the potato mixture to the pan.
• Add low-fat milk, mushroom mixture, sherry. salt, and pepper, cook over low heat 10 mintues or until thoroughly heated.
• Ladle soup in to bowls and top with crumbled bacon.