Mushroom Soup

I’m sick. I have a snotty head and a sore throat. So, last night I made soup.  I don’t know how many calories are in it - I don’t really care just now. I’ll work it out another day and update this post then.

Using the The Soup Formula which I mentioned in my last post, and plagiarising little bits from several different recipes off taste.com.au, I came up with this little bowl of goodness. Give it a shot - it’s really yummy if I do say so myself :)

Ingredients

• Olive Oil
• Fresh Rosemary
• 2 leeks, chopped roughly (my friend, chef extraordinaire Sam Green-Armytage, told me to use all the white and about half the green parts)
• about a kilo of mushrooms, roughly chopped (There were only two types at my local supermarket. I chose the field mushrooms over the little button mushrooms cause I thought they might have a stronger flavour)
• 1 litre of vegetable stock (i used the gravox brand because it had less ingredients that I didn’t recognise than the other brand)
• Flour
• Sour Light Cream.
• Salt and Pepper

Methods

• Heat the rosemary and olive oil together gently to infuse the oil with the rosemary flavour.
• Add the oil to a big stock pot and saute the leeks until they are translucnt.
• Add the mushrooms and cook them down for 5 minutes or so.
• Coat the vegetables with flour.
• Cover the vegetables with the stock. Add some water if there’s not enough, or if the stock is a bit to salty or strong.
• Simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove from heat, then get out your handheld blender and go to town on the mushrooms. Keep blending until the soup is all smooth. This will be messy. deal with it.
• return the soup to a gentle heat, don’t let it boil. stir in about two tablespoons of sour cream, or more if you like your soup really creamy.
• Add salt and Pepper to taste - you probably won’t need salt if you used store bought stock, but a bit of pepper is good.

Serve with a nice fresh crusty bread roll. Dish the rest up into containers and freeze for later, pack some for your lunch tomorrow.  Oh, and do something nice - take some over to your elderly neighbour - they’ll love it!