Cooking 101: Mushroom Soup

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Another weekend spent trying out new homemade meals. Took longer than it should because I was taking photos but it was definitely fun. With that, expect a lot of photos but I'm sure the loading time should be fine, else, I hope you're a patient reader :) Anyway let's start things off with the mushroom soup first.

Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

  • White mushrooms ( I used about 400g here(200g X 2 boxes)
  • Shitake mushrooms (this is optional)
  • Onions
  • Garlic
  • Flour(about 2 Tablespoons)
  • Butter(About 90 grams)
  • Whipping Cream (I used 90g)
  • Chicken stock
  • Salt
  • Pepper
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Look at the size of it!
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Wash the mushrooms
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Chop them up
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Imagine the mushroom flavors from these two plates!
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Chop up the garlic. I used 4 cloves
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Four medium size onions should do the trick
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2 Tablespoons of flour
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The mushrooms go in first
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Followed by the onions
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Blended mushroom
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Blended onions
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Now that you've done blending the mushrooms and onions, we're gonna prepare the chicken stock soup. 1 cube with about 1 litre of water
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The whole butter block is 250g so we're going to cut slightly off from the center for about 90g of butter. Accuracy doesn't matter.
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Heat it up with a low flame as butter turns brown very easily with high heat
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Toss in the onions and chopped garlic
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Give it a stir for afew minutes. It won't turn golden as we've minced the onions.
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Pour in the blended mushrooms into the mix.
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Do not do this. It was my mistake. We ended up getting lumps of flour floating on the top. We should have mixed the flour with some water first
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Add all the chicken stock prepared earlier. Let it boil for a few minutes while stirring it constantly
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Lastly, add in some whipping cream, a little salt and a dash of pepper.
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A pot of homemade goodness

Now for the final piece, we gonna prepare some bread with garlic spread for the mushroom soup.

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Toastin'
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Food is served!

I wanted to do it differently but wifey wanted her style so I let it be. But if I were to do it my way, I wouldn't have blended all the ingredients first before cooking them. In this case, we blended everything first so there wasn't any texture in the soup. Despite the lack of texture, I would still proudly say that the taste and flavors for our mushroom soup was spot on! I'm really happy with our homemade mushroom soup.

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