Description
Mushroom soup or Cream of mushroom soup is a simple soup made out of basic roux thinned with cream of milk then flavoured with mushrooms. A relatively easy soup to make yet it packs a flavourful punch hence it is not just enjoyed as a soup but it can be used as a base ingredients in several dishes.
Ingredients
- 200g farmers brown mushrooms, sliced
- 150g portabella mushrooms, sliced
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups fresh milk
- 1/2 cup cream
- 3 tablespoons flour (or you can adjust to the consistency you desire)
- 1/2 brown onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- In a pot, melt half of butter in low heat. Sauté garlic and onions.
- Add mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes. Remove mushrooms from pan then set aside.
- Add the remaining butter over the pan then sprinkle flour over pan and mix.
- Add chicken broth to deglaze, then add milk. Bring to a boil then simmer in low heat for 15 minutes.
- Place mushrooms in a blender and add a small amount of the creamy broth. Blend until mushrooms are finely chopped.
- Pour blended mushrooms in the pan and simmer for additional 15 minutes.
- Add cream and nutmeg then simmer for 5 more minutes
- Then finally, season with salt and pepper.
Recently ate very good mushroom soup in London. Must have been your recipe they were following ;Good thing is, now I can try this at home 🙂
Maybe you would also like my pumpkin-parsnip soup? http://goestjes.com/2012/11/27/soep-voor-gure-herfstdagen/
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I imagine your version is not only tastier, but healthier than the canned version. I’d love to try it. 🙂
I do love mushroom soup. I’ll have to compare your recipe to the one I follow by Ina Garten.
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This is one of my favorite soups and you look like you made it perfectly. What a nice comforting bowl of deliciousness!
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Although I eat mushrooms almost everyday and love it, I somehow never tried mushroom soup before. I would love to make this at home!
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Great mushrooom soup recipe! I really like the addition of the nutmeg!
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Love the use of nutmeg in this soup! Yum!
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Beautiful photo!