Holstein Mushroom Soup

Name: Holstein Mushroom Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 1 kg bay boletes; 125 ml chicken or vegetable stock; 2 tbsp finely chopped spring onion; 55 g butter; 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley; 4 tbsp double cream; 1 tbsp marjoram or thyme leaves; salt and pepper to taste; juice of ½ lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Mushroom Book

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2005

About

I lived in this part of Germany for a while and I had the impression that almost every dish contained either butter, double cream or both. The following thick soup is no exception, and I admit it is not a light dish, but as with German tradition, lightness is replaced with ‘Schmackhaft’- which means it is very tasty indeed.

Ingredients

1 kg bay boletes
55 g butter
2 tbsp

Europe
Germany
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Clean and chop the mushrooms.

Put the butter in a pan with the spring onion and leave to sweat. Add the mushrooms and continue to sweat for 10 minutes. Add the stock and cook for 5 more minutes.

Add the herbs and cream and warm gently. Transfer to a blender or food processor and process to a coarse texture (and, of course, you can add more stock if you want the soup to be more l