Cream of Mushroom Soup

I have a small confession to make.

I used to buy Maggy's powdered mushroom soup.

Then I found out I can actaully make mushroom soup at home. That revelation changed my soup eating days..


I didn't know making mushroon soup would be so easy.


This was hardest part. Peeling the mushrooms.

The rest is a piece of cake.

Now that you have this, please forget about the canned / powdered soup and make your own.

A little tip. Skip washing your mushrooms, else they will absorb the water and get soggy. Peel them instead, and a give them a quick rinse.

P.S. you can make this as a low fat version, buy using low fat milk and reduce the butter to one tablespoon.

Not that I like low fat food.

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 cup or 250g fresh mushrooms
• 1/2 onion, medium size
• 1/2 onion, medium size
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 2 cups of 500ml full fat milk
• 2 cups or 500ml homemade beef stock
• 1 teaspoons rock salt
• 1/4 nutmeg, grated
• 1/2 teaspoons white pepper
• chopped parsley to garnish

Steps:

1. Peel the mushrooms. Rinse thoroughly. Pat dry with a clean kitchen towel.
2. In the food processor, chop the mushrooms and onions.
3. Add the lemon juice.
4. In a medium saucepan, add the butter, saute the onions and mushrooms till the onions absorb the butter, about 10 to 15 minutes.
5. Add the flour while whisking continually, to avoid the mixture from getting lumpy.
6. Season with salt, nutmeg, and white pepper.
7. Slowly, add the milk & beef stock to the mushrooms. Stir frequently for 2 minutes.
8. Bring to boil. Once it boils, . Let simmer for 20 minutes on low heat.
9. Serve sprinkled with coarsely chopped parsley. Season with extra seasoning as need.

 Devour & Enjoy.

French Onion Soup | شوربة البصل الفرنسية

Baked French Onion soup, with french baguette & mozzarella cheese

It's as cold as it can get here in Kuwait (by cold i mean its 15 degree Celsius). Me and the kids have be struck by flu for the past two weeks. This flu just won't go away. My poor babies have been coughing all night, hearing them is just heart drenching.

Nothing fights flu better than homemade soup. My recipe for French onion soup requires simmering on the stove for a while, but the result is mouth watering, flu curing potion. No, I don't promise that this soup will cure your flu, but i can assure it will make you so much better afterwards, and most importantly warm.

Traditionally this soup is made with red onions, but since I only had white onion, I went with that one. I used white only. But feel free to use any & all types of onion you want.


As you can see from the picture below I used a frying pan first to caramelize the onions. Don't follow my lead, and use a deep heave bottom saucepan from the start. I did remove my onion to a deeper saucepan before they began to caramelize so i don't loose the good caramel stuff that will stick to the bottom of the pan.

That's a lot of onion.. Needless to say, I literally wept while i was chopping them. I transferred the onions to a deeper pan because that one was too shallow.

The onions after being caramelized.