CREAMY MUSHROOM SOUP

This creamy, rich mushroom soup will be a feast for mushroom lovers. This is a soup which will become a meal and fill your tummy. Now a days I am seeing some restaurants serving soups, just by mixing white corn starch or flour in the vegetable stock and adding chopped boiled vegetables and I couldnt find any difference between sweet corn soup or vegetable soup or a mushroom soup. It may be economical for the buisness but its not a complete job of having a good soup with its full energy. Non mushroom lovers too can also try it.

Ingredients :

1. White button mushrooms - 200 gms (sliced)
2. Onion - 1 (sliced)
3. Ginger - 1 inch (peeled and chopped)
4. Garlic - 2 cloves (pelled and chopped)
5. Salt - as required
7. Pepper powder - as required
8. Green chillies - 1
 9. Butter - 1/2 tbs
10. Milk / cream - 1 cup or as required to the consistency

Method:

1.  Heat butter in a pan, add sliced onions, green chillies, ginger and garlic. Fry until the onions become soft. No need to fry until the onions become brown as it changes the colour the soup.

2. Add the sliced mushrooms to the pan and fry until they get cooked well. Transfer to a seperate bowl and allow it to cool. Keep 2 tbs of mushrooms seperately to add finally.

3. Once all the ingredients gets to room temperature grind it to a fine paste in a blender. Remove the green chillies from the  other ingredients before grinding. No need to grind it, you can discard it.

4. Heat a sauce pan, add milk and the grind paste and mix it well. Boil for 4-5 minutes.

5. Add 2 tbs of mushroom you kept seperately to the soup. Sprinkle pepper powder on top of the soup and mix it.

6. Serve it hot to your family members,  in the cold winter evening.

note : The colour of the soup depends upon how you fry the ingredients. If the ingredients turn  slightly brown, the colour of the soup will gets darker, but the taste remains the same. If you are so much diet consious you can substitute half amount of milk with water. But the creamy soup tastes good with  milk. You can even sprinkle some spring onions on top of the soup before serving.