The end of summer - autumn is the time for mushrooms. "Grandmothers" with them appear at the entrances to the subway, stand along the tracks, form spontaneous markets. And even if you do not trust the sellers (you never know where they collected, are they well versed in the “quiet hunt”, have you accidentally picked up grebes ...), the mushroom season is still attractive. You begin to pay attention to dried and canned mushrooms, which are sold in stores. Even all-season champignons seem more attractive than usual. Yes, and the unkind weather on the street whispers: "But can you cook, my friend, mushroom soup, with potatoes, with cereals or macaroni, hot and fragrant?" And most often you answer to yourself: "Of course, cook!"
White mushrooms - our choice!
The king of all mushrooms, boletus, fortunately, is sold in supermarkets in dried form. So do not believe the collectors - go to the store. To cook mushroom soup with potatoes from dried mushrooms, they will have to be soaked in cold water all night. It will be enough 200 g per one and a half liters of water. Then washed mushrooms are cut and boiled until final readiness. At this time, ghee is made from finely chopped onion in ghee. 5 chopped potatoes rush into the finished broth; when they are almost cooked - onion frying is added. Before removal, the mushroom soup with potatoes is salted, and served to the table with sour cream and chopped parsley and dill.
Mushroom Soup
First, a pound of peeled potatoes is cooked for him. Half a liter of broth is poured into a saucepan, and the tubers are mashed. Any mushrooms that are at your disposal (three hundred grams) are washed. If necessary, they are cleaned, cut and fried with onions, preferably in butter. Separately, the chicken breast slices are browned (about 300 g). Half a liter of low-fat cream or milk is heated. Two finely chopped processed cheeses are lowered into the pan. Warming continues until the cheese is completely dissolved. It is necessary to interfere continuously! When the mixture becomes homogeneous, it is poured into a decoction, mashed potatoes, frying of mushrooms and onions and pieces of fillet are laid there. When it boils, mushroom soup with potatoes is removed from the fire. Serve it with greens, crackers and, if desired, with sour cream.
Rustic mushroom soup
Naturally, in any village, during the season of "silent hunting", and in winter, having dried prey, they always prepared their mushroom soup with potatoes. The recipe that we want to offer also includes pearl barley. Suppose you have found 100 grams of dried mushrooms in a pantry. They must be washed and soaked for a couple of hours. When swollen, the water in which they are wet is filtered and poured into the pan. Chicken broth is added there (total liquid volume is 3 liters). Chopped mushrooms and half a glass of washed barley are lowered into a boiling salted base. When the cereal is almost cooked, potatoes are introduced in cubes (3-4 pieces). While the tubers are boiling, a frying is prepared from onions and carrots. It is added a couple of minutes before readiness. After removal from the fire, greens are placed in the pan (parsley, feather, dill), and mushroom soup with potatoes is left for 10 minutes for insisting.
American champignon cream soup
The recipe for those who prefer these mushrooms. We take 800 grams of champignons, chopped finely and sent to a saucepan with butter along with three chopped onions and a stalk of celery. It is not necessary to extinguish completely, only to softness, 3-4 minutes. After the specified time, the broth (usually chicken, but suitable from another bird and beef) is poured into the saucepan in the amount of one liter. When it boils, cook for 20 minutes. It hardly cools down, passed through a blender, salted, flavored with ground nutmeg and black pepper, after which 2 tablespoons of white vermouth are poured into the resulting mushroom soup with potatoes, and everything is heated together (you can’t boil!) You need to eat immediately, with toasted croutons. And you should definitely feel like a real American!