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Truffle and mushrooms: ©️ Nel Brouwer-van den Bergh

Mushroom soup with a hint of truffle

Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Course Appetizer, Lunch
Cuisine French
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

Ingredients to make the soup

  • 0.85 oz (24 g) dried agaricus blazei
  • 7.4 oz (210 g) crimini (chestnut) mush rooms
  • 7.4 oz (210 g) oyster mushrooms
  • 0.6 oz (18 g) black Yunnan truffle (tuber himalayensis) (about a half)
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 6 oz (170 g) onion
  • 3.2 oz (90 g) celery leaves or celeriac
  • 0.35 oz (10 g) parsley finely sliced
  • 1 tsp thyme (dried)
  • 1.5 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp ground pepper
  • 3 tbsp cooking cream
  • 2.1 oz (60 g) unsalted butter
  • 7.1 oz (200 g) milk

Instructions
 

Instruction on how to make the soup

  • Make water luke warm (around 50 C) and add 380 ml to the dried morels. Let steep for 40 min. Cover and push the mushrooms under the water level with a saucer or the like.
  • Clean the other mushrooms with a brush or towel and cut them in slices
  • Cut the onion, the celery and garlic in slices
  • Cut the truffle in slices
    Truffle (tuber himalayensis): ©️ Nel Brouwer-van den Bergh
  • Melt the butter in a pan
  • Glaze the onions and the garlic
  • After some 10 minutes add the crimini and the oyster mushrooms. Increase the fire until juices come out, then put on low for 15 min. After this time take out quite several nice slices out and reserve. Add 1/2 tsp of salt
  • Then add the sliced, re-hydrated mushroom, the sliced truffle, the parsley and the thyme and all the left-over mushroom 'broth' (330 ml) as well as additional 600 ml of water
  • Simmer for 1 hr
  • Use the immersion blender to make a thickened mushroom soup; Then add the reserved mushroom slices and bring to taste with pepper and salt. I added at this step 1 tsp kitchen salt and 1/4 tsp freshly ground pepper
  • Serve with a little cooking cream and some of the reserved mushroom slices on top and some parsley

Notes

Method: panfrying, then simmering
Food allergy & intolerance information: none
Keyword black truffle from Yunnan (tuber himalayensis), crimini, dried ji song rong (agaricus blazei), mushroom soup, oyster mushroom