Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Mushroom Soup

If you are looking for a light meal at home, mushroom soup with wholemeal loaf is a good choice. I cooked this the other day, it's quite fast to get it prepared. I learned to make this at home as it's more healthy than canned cream of mushroom soup.

Hubby prefer this type of authentic mushroom soup than cream of mushroom soup. Last time, he used to love the chunky mushroom soup at "Little Italy" restaurant. But since it's closed down, he misses the soup so much. So, my dear, this is specially for you. I'm glad that you like it too. :)


Mushroom Soup
Serves 2

Ingredients:

200gm of fresh shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced (you can use Portobello instead)
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp fresh breadcrumbs
3 cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced
1 onion, peeled and diced
350 ml water
100ml fresh milk
1 tbsp of corn flour with 3 tbsp of water
salt and ground black pepper

Garnishing:
Some chopped spring onion (optional)

Steps:

1. Sauté the mushroom, garlic and onion with butter in a heavy saucepan for a few minutes. Cook until the mushroom turn soft.

2. Add the breadcrumbs and pour in the water. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes with lid covered.

3. Pour the soup in a blender and blend for merely 2 seconds. Return to the saucepan, stir in the milk and reheat gently. Stir in the corn flour mixture for thickening. Garnish with spring onion. Serve hot.

22 comments:

Priya Suresh said...

Omg, wat a thick and beautiful mushroom, truly tempting..

ann low said...

My boys love mushroom soup and going to bookmark it.

J2Kfm said...

I like Little Italy as well! Damn that brought back so much memories.

the lacquer spoon said...

I like a soup meal too. Light in volume, but rich nutrition :) The flavour of mushrooms must be awesome!

email2me said...

Wah ! Such a good recipe and sinful bowl of homey mushroom soup

Roxan said...

I love love love mushroom soup. Thank you for sharing this!! Totally going to make it.

Mary Bergfeld said...

My family adores mushroom soup and your recipe sounds wonderful. I hope to try this soon. Have a great day. Blessings...Mary

pigpigscorner said...

I love mushroom soup! So creamy, rich and comforting.

Cookin' Canuck said...

Fantastic! I like that you left some of the chunks of mushroom in the soup.

Little Inbox said...

Priya, thanks.

Anncoo, ok, hopefully your boys will love it.

J2Kfm, yup, hubby and I loves to visit that place. Now no more. :(

the lacquer spoon, I like the taste of shiitake mushroom. If you don't like shiitake, Portobello is a good choice too.

Little Inbox said...

email2me, oh thank you! :)

roxan, no problem. I hope you'll like it. :)

Mary, feel free to give it a try!

pigpigscorner, my version is not the creamy type, but rather chunky type. No cream was added.

Cookin' Canuck, that's for decorating purpose, hehe...

tigerfish said...

I love it chunky like this too! Real stuff!

New Kid on the Blog said...

one of my favourite too! :)

MODERN ROBINSON CRUSOE said...

Yummy :-D

My Food Fetish said...

We miss Chef Vialli's mushroom soup as well. And not only that, we especially miss his Pasta ala Vongole. :(

Jessica said...

Homemade soup is always better than canned! I love to make homemade tomato soup but hadn't found a decent homemade mushroom...that is until now! Thanks!

jessyburke88@gmail.com

M. said...

this looks mouthwatering...mushroom soup is one of my favorites. :)

Agnes said...

Delicious - I like this style of mushroom soup versus a cream of mushroom soup too. That's so sweet that you made it specially for your hubby :)

ck lam said...

An inviting bowl of mushroom soup!

Little Inbox said...

tigerfish, can taste the mushroom, right?

New Kid, oh I see. Hehe...

MRC, :) wanna have a bowl? Hehe...

My Food Fetish, too bad, where is he now??

Jessica, home cooked version has less sodium too.

M., oh thank you!

CK, this is a bowl of low fat mushroom soup, hehehe...

Syarih said...

I like it very much....my family too..

Unknown said...

Just want to check any idea why the mushroom can taste bitter?

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