What don't home-made mushrooms make?Housewives and experienced cooks! There are a great many mushroom dishes: mushrooms can be salted, stewed, fried, baked into pies, julienned and, of course, soups, which are not limited to just the well-known mushroom soup. Nowadays, cream of mushroom soups have become very popular. It is difficult to find a person who would refuse a portion of cream soup, especially mushroom soup, because everyone likes this soup without exception. Therefore, now a portion of such soup can be ordered in almost any catering establishment, be it a restaurant, a cafe or just a canteen. And what is most surprising is that this dish is difficult to spoil, so almost everywhere it has amazing taste qualities. In addition, cream of mushroom soup can be very easily and quickly prepared at home, and any novice housewife can cope with its preparation. Most often, the recipe involves adding either porcini mushrooms or champignons. Champignons are now available all year round and in almost any grocery store or supermarket, and the rest of the ingredients can always be found in every home. Therefore, if you have not yet prepared mushroom cream soup, we strongly recommend that you make amends and prepare this delicious dish. We will tell you how to prepare it, and you can choose the recipe you like best.
The easiest recipe for cream soup
There are many ways to cook mushroomscream soups. The basic recipe contains a certain set of ingredients, but some cook it with meat broth, some add milk instead of cream, and some even add cheese. Here is the simplest and most delicious recipe for such a soup. In addition to it, you can make garlic croutons. It will be very tasty. To prepare the soup, we will need the following ingredients: 2.5 liters of water, 5 bay leaves, 1 onion, 4 potatoes, 2 carrots, 300-350 g of champignons, spices to taste, 300 ml of 20% cream, 2 tablespoons of flour. Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil, put bay leaves there to make the broth taste richer, salt and pepper. Cut the onion, potato, carrot into small pieces, place them in a saucepan with boiling water and cook. Meanwhile, fry the champignons in olive oil until fully cooked for about 10 minutes, then add them to the pan with the already cooked vegetables. Mix everything thoroughly and keep on the fire for another 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and cool the resulting mixture. Grind the cooled mixture with a blender, put it back on the fire and pour in the cream. Fry the flour in a frying pan until golden brown and add to the soup. This will make the cream of mushroom soup thicker. The dish is ready! Now let's start making the croutons. Of course, many people prefer to buy ready-made croutons with different flavors. But homemade ones are much tastier. For this, we will need a loaf of bread (preferably not very fresh), garlic (the more the better) and a little olive oil. Cut the loaf into cubes and chop the garlic very finely. Put all this on a baking sheet greased with olive oil and place in the oven. All that remains is to wait until the croutons acquire a golden color. It will be better if the prepared croutons are immediately placed in a large plate, while trying to separate the pieces of garlic from them. Now the croutons can be served with the soup.
Recipe for gourmet soup
Let's take a look at another delicious recipe.preparation of cream soup, but with the addition of additional components. For such a soup, you will need to additionally prepare cheese sticks. We will need the following ingredients: 100 ml dry white wine, 300 g processed cheese, 100 g hard cheese, 150 g bacon, 350 g champignons, 200 ml 20% cream, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon flour, pepper, salt, grated nutmeg to taste. For cheese sticks you will need: 500 g puff pastry (yeast-free), 70 g hard cheese, 1 egg. First, we will prepare the cheese sticks. Cut the dough into six rectangles. Beat the egg and grease the dough with it. Sprinkle three pieces of dough with grated cheese and cover these pieces with the remaining three. We got something like a thin pie with a cheese layer. This pie should be cut into strips about 1 cm wide and these strips should be twisted into a spiral. Place the resulting spirals on baking paper greased with oil. Bake on a baking sheet at 180° for 10-12 minutes. Now let's start making the soup. Cut the bacon and fry it in a frying pan without adding oil until crispy and put it on a plate. Cut the champignons into small pieces, grate the hard cheese. Pour olive oil into a saucepan and fry the mushrooms in it. Then add 1 spoon of flour, stir and fill with water. Cool the resulting mixture and grind it in a blender. Then put the soup back on the fire and mix with wine and cream. When the mixture boils, add grated cheese, processed cheese and fried bacon. Bring the soup to a boil and cook for another 3 minutes. Add spices, salt and nutmeg to taste. Serve with cheese sticks.
The soup recipe for chicken broth
Recipe for cream soup with chicken brothrequires the following ingredients: 500 g of champignons, 2 medium onions, 600 ml of chicken broth, 200 ml of 20% cream, 70 g of butter, 2 tablespoons of flour, pepper, salt, spices to taste. Cut the mushrooms and onions into small pieces and fry in vegetable oil. Place the prepared mixture in a blender cup, pour in chicken broth (100 ml) and chop. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add flour and fry for 2 minutes. Next, very slowly, begin to pour the remaining broth into the saucepan, and then the mixture chopped in the blender. Add salt, pepper and spices to taste, bring to a boil and cook for another 7 minutes. Then pour in the cream, bring to a boil again and turn off the heat. Our wonderful soup is ready. We have considered three options for making mushroom cream soup. All of them are absolutely not difficult to prepare, will not take much of your time and will not require any specific cooking skills. But your family, guests or friends will be pleased and delighted with your culinary skills and will ask you to cook this wonderful mushroom cream soup or ask for the recipe more than once.