Cream Of Shiitake Mushroom Soup Recipe
Yield: 4 ServingsRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
1 quart: Milk, whole, low-fat or skim
1 small: Onion, peeled and stuck with
2 Cloves: ,
6: Whole peppercorns, or more
1 pinch: Salt,
BOUQUET GARNI
:Tie in cheesecloth,
6: Fresh parsley stems,
1/2 tsp: Dried leaf thyme,
1/2: Bay leaf,
SOUP, CONT
4 tbsp: Rice flour, or barley or oat flour
4 tbsp: Cold milk, about
8 ounce: Shiitake mushrooms,
OPTIONAL
6 tbsp: Heavy cream,
2 tbsp: Madeira,
Reserved mushroom slices,
Directions:
This rich, earthy soup has but 100 calories per serving if made with
non-fat milk.
PLACE THE MILK, ONION, peppercorns, salt and bouquet garni in a
saucepan and bring slowly to a boil. Form a smooth paste of the rice
flour and the cold milk. Put into the just-boiling milk and stir
briskly until there are no lumps. Simmer over very low heat for 20
minutes. Meanwhile, cut off the tough ends of the mushroom stems.
Reserve a few mushroom slices for garnish and chop the remaining
mushrooms coarsely, then place in a food processor with a steel blade
and chop as finely as possible. Strain the milk mixture through a
fine sieve back into the saucepan; add the chopped mushrooms and
continue simmering 5 minutes. Add the cream and Madeira, if you wish,
and serve in hot bowls, garnished with a slice of mushroom.
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non-fat milk.
PLACE THE MILK, ONION, peppercorns, salt and bouquet garni in a
saucepan and bring slowly to a boil. Form a smooth paste of the rice
flour and the cold milk. Put into the just-boiling milk and stir
briskly until there are no lumps. Simmer over very low heat for 20
minutes. Meanwhile, cut off the tough ends of the mushroom stems.
Reserve a few mushroom slices for garnish and chop the remaining
mushrooms coarsely, then place in a food processor with a steel blade
and chop as finely as possible. Strain the milk mixture through a
fine sieve back into the saucepan; add the chopped mushrooms and
continue simmering 5 minutes. Add the cream and Madeira, if you wish,
and serve in hot bowls, garnished with a slice of mushroom.
Source from luhu.jp