Recipe: Onion and Mushroom Soup
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 2 pounds white or brown button mushrooms, sliced
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 1 rounded tbsp flour
- 6 sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled, left whole
- 4 cups chicken broth or stock
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup heavy cream
- salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
Step 1
Take 6 sprigs fresh thyme, tied into a bundle with kitchen string, plus some picked leaves to garnish.
Step 2
Add 2 pounds sliced white mushrooms, 1/4 cup unsalted butter and a pinch of salt in a pot over medium high heat. Cook this for a long time until the water disappear. Turn the heat to med-low, add 1 diced yellow onion. Cook for 5 more minutes.
Step 3
Add 1 rounded tbsp flour in the pot. Stir around and cook for 2 minutes.Add 6 sprigs fresh thyme, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 4 cups chicken broth and 1 cup water. Simmer on low heat for 1 hour.
Step 4
After simmering, take out the thyme bundle. Transfer the soup mixture in a blender, pull the blender on and off to blend the mixture well.
Step 5
Pour the soup mixture in the pot. Add 1 cup heavy cream, some salt and pepper. Mix well.
Step 6
garnished with some thyme picked leaves.
