How to make fresh mushroom soup
Mushroom soup is the first dish, the main ingredient of which is mushrooms. The easiest and most affordable option, at any time of the year, is soup with fresh store-bought champignons. I will give here two very similar recipes, one of them is vegetarian, the second is using chicken fillet.
This is a very simple and quick recipe, a healthy “quick soup”, a dietary mushroom soup without frying.
Prepare
Rinse the mushrooms, cut into large pieces and quickly scald with boiling water.
Peel potatoes and cut into cubes.
Peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater or cut into small cubes.
Peel and cut a small celery root into small cubes, smaller than potatoes. Also, cut the parsley root into small cubes.
Other vegetables can be added if desired, this soup harmoniously combines fresh green beans or cauliflower to taste. We cut them into small pieces.
Preparation
Pour into boiling water in turn:
Celery and parsley (roots, diced)
Carrots
Champignon
Potatoes
Other vegetables (green beans or cauliflower)
After adding each component, you must wait until the soup boils. This is a subtle technological moment, very important for the final result: we pour out a portion of vegetables, increase the fire, wait for it to boil, reduce the fire, take the next ingredient.
After adding the potatoes, salt the soup and set the timer for 15-18 minutes. That’s it, the soup is ready. You can add greens if you like.
This dish also belongs to the diet, there is no fatty meat or frying. It is prepared very quickly, since chicken fillet, especially cut into pieces, does not need to be cooked for a long time: 10 minutes of pre-boiling is enough and you can add the rest of the ingredients.
Chicken fillet has its own delicate aroma that will not conflict with the aroma of mushrooms. But the combination of flavors here is an amateur.
Prepare
Cut the chicken fillet into large pieces and cook until half cooked.
Prepare the rest of the ingredients in the same way as described above.
Preparation
Pour all the ingredients into the boiling broth one by one.
If desired, you can add pasta (in the photo, soup with “spirals”, they do not sag for a long time, retain their shape).
Ingredients, for 3-4 servings:
- Water or chicken broth – 1,5-2 liters
- Fresh champignons – 300-400 grams
- Potatoes – 2 pieces
- Carrots – 1 pc
- Celery root – 1 piece (small)
- Parsley root – 1 piece (small)
- Pasta (optional) – 1/2 cup
- Green beans (optional) – a few pods
Pasta, if desired, can be replaced with rice cereal. In this case, the rice must be washed in advance, soaked for 10-15 minutes and added first, along with celery.
Separately, a few words about herbs and spices
Greens, traditionally added to soups, greatly change the taste and aroma of the finished dish. For complex multi-component soups, greens are necessary, especially dill and parsley, traditional for our latitudes.
But we are preparing mushroom soup! It is mushroom to get a fragrant mushroom dish. Therefore, adding greens during cooking is not recommended.
You can add a little chopped greens directly when serving, right on the plate.
With spices such as pepper, bay leaf, turmeric and others, you need to be very careful. For the same reason: there is no point in interrupting the mushroom flavor of our soup.