Mushroom soup

๐Ÿ„ Cultivated button mushrooms in milk soup, lightly thickened with wheat flour, without cream.

Mushroom soup

Ingredients

  • 400 g identified cultivated button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
  • 150 g peeled chopped onion
  • 400 ml pasteurised whole milk
  • 400 ml drinking water
  • 20 g wheat flour
  • 15 g unsalted butter
  • Up to 2 g salt and a pinch of black pepper

Preparation

Clean cultivated mushrooms, remove damaged parts and slice evenly; chop onion. Never substitute an unidentified wild harvest.

Melt butter over medium-low heat, soften onion 6 minutes then add mushrooms for 8 minutes, stirring.

Sprinkle flour and stir 2 minutes without burning.

Gradually add water then milk while stirring, return to gentle simmer in about 5 minutes.

Simmer about 7 minutes, stirring to bottom, until mushrooms cooked and soup smooth around slices; extend if needed and taste before measured salt.

Divide into 4 starter bowls. Do not blend. No wild mushrooms, cream, stock cubes, croutons or herb garnish. Contains milk and wheat.