Low-Carb Double Mushroom Soup
-
Category
Soup
-
Cusine
Low-Carb
What do you need?
How to make?
Ingredients
1 cup dried mushrooms
2 cup boiling water
4 T butter, olive oil, or a combination of butter and olive oil, whichever you prefer
1 large onion, cut into thin half-slices
12 oz. fresh mushroom, thickly sliced
4 cups chicken stock
1 tsp. dried parsley
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
2 T good quality balsamic vinegar, for drizzling over soup when you serve it
Directions
Bring 2 cups water to a boil, then put dried mushrooms into a plastic bowl and pour boiling water over. Let mushrooms soak 30 minutes, while you prep other ingredients. Peel onion and cut in half lengthwise, then cut each half into thin slices. Wash mushrooms, drain in colander, and then cut into thick slices. Heat 2 T butter or olive oil in the bottom of a heavy soup pot big enough to hold all the soup. Saute onions about about five minutes, until they’re well softened but not browned. Add 2 more T butter or olive oil. Add sliced fresh mushrooms and cook about 8 minutes, until mushrooms have released all their liquid and it has mostly been evaporated. Add dried mushrooms, mushrooms soaking water , chicken stock, and dried or fresh parsley. Bring soup to a very gentle simmer and cook uncovered for about one hour. After an hour taste for flavor, and add salt and fresh ground black pepper as needed. If the soup doesn’t seem flavorful enough, cook a bit longer to reduce a little more. When soup has a good mushroom flavor, puree either by using an immersion blender to puree soup in the pot, or by carefully removing hot soup to a food processor or or regular blender to puree. Serve hot . Drizzle a little good quality balsamic vinegar over each bowl of soup as you serve it.