Mushroom Soup

Easy Mushroom Soup

Here's my version of a fantastic soup recipe from Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. It's preposterously easy, but fantastic.

Easy Mushroom Soup
Ingredients:

• 1 onion
• 10 oz Mushrooms
• 6 tbs butter
• 4 cups chicken stock (home-made is much better, but don't let that stop you)

Technique:

1. Saute onions in 2 tbs butter for 5 minutes or so. The soup will be prettier if you don't let the onions brown, but I like caramelized onions too much to let that stop me.
2. Add the rest of the butter and the cleaned mushrooms and saute for another 5 minutes or so.
3. Add stock and simmer for 1 hour
4. Blend soup. I love an immersion blender for this.

That's it. Try it. I suspect that you could cut a half hour of the simmering time by covering the mushrooms after step 2 and simmering on low until the mushrooms have released most of their juice (10 min?). Then add the stock. I haven't tried it, but that's my favorite trick for making stock and it'd probably work here.

Oh yeah, and get Bourdain's book. His technique is more restaurant focussed, but he's such a bad-ass that it is totally worth reading even if you aren't going to cook anything from it.