The role of mushrooms in human life is so great and diverse that it is simply impossible to describe it in a nutshell. And we won’t do this, we’ll just tell you
how to cook mushroom soup from fresh mushrooms. Although, in fairness, I would like to recall that mushrooms are not only champignons and chanterelles, but also yeast, alcohol, vinegar, medicines, cheeses. Naturally, not in the direct sense, but without them in our life there would not even be banal rolls for morning tea.
Cooking mushroom soup from fresh mushrooms is quite simple. Mushroom crops grown on an agricultural scale are often suitable even for raw food. In particular, banal mushrooms can be cut into a raw salad and eat calmly. As a result, they do not require long cooking. You should boil the accompanying vegetables until half cooked, add the chopped mushrooms and your soup is almost ready.
In order to cook mushroom soup from fresh mushrooms collected in the forest, you need to correctly assess their suitability for food. In some cases, they should not be eaten even heavily boiled. We do not mean poisonous representatives of the genus. We are talking about those specimens that were collected in a forest belt located along the highway or an actively used highway. The ability of fungi to absorb substances from the atmosphere that can cause significant harm to human health has been described by many scientists.
Ordinary forest mushrooms do not require long cooking. The whole process usually takes no more than thirty minutes. If in doubt about the place of assembly, boil them in several waters. At least two times.
Mushroom soup made from fresh mushrooms is cooked according to the principle of preparing ordinary vegetable. You decide whether you want to fry vegetables or not, put potatoes or noodles, add cream or sour cream. The only condition is fresh greens, since without parsley or dill, such soups are not soups. Although you can make an exception, not for everybody.
We offer you two of the most common cooking options.
Mushroom soup with fresh mushrooms
Put chopped potato and finely chopped carrots in boiling salted water. Cook until soft. At this time, rinse and cut three or four champignons, several forest mushrooms (remember, in some cases (described above) only boiled specimens go to the soup). Add to potatoes and carrots and cook until tender. Five minutes before the end of cooking, put bay leaf, salt and pepper, a tablespoon of butter and shredded onions, dill and parsley.
Fresh Mushroom Soup
In a saucepan, fry the chopped onion and grated carrot until soft, then add the prepared mushrooms of your choice and fry with vegetables. Pour boiling water, salt. When it boils, drop a handful of noodles, herbs and bay leaf. Let it boil for a maximum of five minutes and turn it off.
Such soups are ideally combined with fresh sour cream and herbs. Bon appetit and good luck in the culinary field!