World's simplest mushroom soup recipe

[brooksmoses]

Accidentially discovered while making a stuffing precursor:

• One basket sliced mushrooms
• 3 cups or so of water
• One tea ball full of chopped fresh rosemary (probably optional)
• One heaping teaspoon Penzey's vegetable broth base

Rinse mushrooms; put in water in pot with tea ball. Boil for an hour. Add broth base; blend until pureed.

Astoundingly tasty for its simplicity; I now want to try it as actual soup, with a bit of cream added.

Comments

[zeborah]

As soon as I parsed "tea ball" I realised that's what I've been needing all my life (or at least for several years).

But how big is a basket?

[brooksmoses]

Tea balls turn out to be remarkably useful kitchen implements. Another thing that they turn out to be useful for is evenly and lightly dusting things with flour, since you can fill them with flour and sift it out over things by lightly shaking it. (The style I have is this one, which is a little smaller than most but has a handy handle, convenient for that.)

A basket, in this case, is one of the remarkably-standardized-in-the-U.S. quart baskets that strawberries, tiny tomatoes, mushrooms, and other loose squishable things tend to be sold in. It's labeled at 8 oz (227g), which should be a more portable measurement. In any case, I think the water was about one and half times enough to cover them, or perhaps a bit more.

[zeborah]

Thanks! That sounds like the thing container we'd call a punnet (I think the word can vary regionally in NZ but think punnet's the most standard). Mushrooms don't usually come in them - they're most often a "put however many you want in a bag" type thing, except where other things get plastic bags, mushrooms get brown paper bags.

[rachelpage.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your accidental discovery. I'll be sure to try this one.