Russian Mushroom Soup Food

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. Garnish each bowl of soup with fresh dill to serve.

HEALTHY MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Cover the porcini mushrooms with 750ml boiling water and leave to soak.
• Heat the olive oil and butter in a large saucepan and add the chopped mushrooms, carrot and celery. Fry over a medium-high heat for around 10 mins or until the carrots are beginning to turn dark gold. Add the barley and stir the mixture for about 2 mins, then pour in the stock.
• Drain the porcini, retaining the soaking liquor, and cut up any large bits. Add these to the pan, along with the liquor. Bring to the boil, then turn the heat down and simmer for 30 mins (it might take a bit longer) until the barley is tender. Taste for seasoning. Stir in the dill. Serve with a dollop of soured cream on top of each bowlful and crusty bread on the side.

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 DRIED MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Break dried mushrooms into small pieces and rinse thoroughly with cold water to remove dirt granules.
• Cover mushrooms with 8 cups cold water, salt, and garlic.
• Cover and simmer for 2 hours or more until mushrooms are tender. Add more salt to taste.
• When soup is done, sauté the chopped onion in butter or oil, whichever you're using, until browned and add to soup.
• Simmer for just a few minutes.
• Serve with mini pirzohki or pelmeni dumplings that are made with a non-butter dough and stuffed with non-meat fillings. Enjoy.

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.