Mushroom Soup
Recipe No.: W-17
International40 minServes 4

Cream of mushroom soup is made from a roux thinned with cream or milk, with mushrooms added; soups of cream and mushrooms have been made for hundreds of years based on French cream sauces. The Campbell Soup Company began producing the canned version in 1934.
Origin of the dish: Not precisely determined — A dish common worldwide that cannot be attributed precisely to one country
Ingredients for Mushroom Soup
- Ingredients
- 40 gbutter and 1 tbsp oil
- 1onion, finely chopped, and 2 garlic cloves
- 500 gmushrooms, sliced
- 30 gflour
- 750 mlchicken or vegetable stock
- 200 mlcream or milk
- 1 tspdried thyme, salt and black pepper
Method
- Melt the butter with the oil and cook the onion 5 minutes until soft, adding the garlic for a minute.
- Add the mushrooms and thyme and cook over high heat 8 to 10 minutes until the liquid evaporates and they brown.
- Stir in the flour for a minute, then add the stock gradually while stirring, bring to a boil and simmer 15 minutes.
- Blend half the soup (or all of it) with a hand blender, add the cream, adjust seasoning and heat through without boiling hard.
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