the mushroom soup i see in my dreams

How many recipes did you ever dream about. I mean after cooking and eating them. This is one of those.

Ingredients

  • 1000 g/ 5 cups of washed, mushrooms 2.5 mm sliced. Get the best mushrooms you can.
  • 1 bunch of celery
  • 1 yellow onion chopped finely
  • a handful of dried porcini or shitake mushrooms
  • 1L to 2L stock, origin at your discretion plus a bay leaf and a few peppercorns
  • 8 cloves of garlic
  • a small handful of arborio rice
  • ½ cup of heavy cream

Method

  • melt 2 tbsp unsalted butter in 30 mL olive oil
  • gently fry the onion in the butter and oil until soft, in a large stock pot. 10 min
  • bring the stock to a boil with 3-4 sticks of celery, half the dried mushrooms, the arborio rice and bay leaf
  • add the mushrooms to the onions add a pinch of salt
  • gently mix and fry until they soften.
  • Add 1L strained stock to cover the mushrooms, along with the dried mushrooms and the mushrooms in the sieve
  • heat on very low for 20 min
  • stir in the cream
  • mix, taste and season.
  • wait 15 min, stirring gently
  • put the crushed peeled garlic in the soup or back in the fridge. ha ha. cook joke. make the soup twice and try one with or without garlic.

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