Creamy Mushroom Soup with Blue Cheese Toasts

Name: Creamy Mushroom Soup with Blue Cheese Toasts
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 10 thin baguette slices; 158 milliliters ounces blue cheese, crumbled (about; 59 milliliters dry sherry; 2 mediums garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 177 milliliters heavy cream; 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice; 4 fresh thyme sprigs, leaves removed; 2 Tbsps unsalted butter (1/4 stick); 3 liters pounds white mushrooms, sliced (about; 237 milliliters coarsely chopped yellow onion

Need a vegetarian main course? Creamy Mushroom Soup with Blue Cheese Toasts could be a great recipe to try. One serving contains 1382 calories, 47g of protein, and 34g of fat. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 49% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It will be a hit at your Autumn event. Head to the store and pick up garlic cloves, cheese, lemon juice, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the dry sherry you could follow this main course with the Bread and Butter Pudding as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Instructions

Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. When foaming subsides, add onion, season with salt, and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes.

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Butter

Onion

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Add sherry and cook until alcohol smell has dissipated, about 1 to 2 minutes.

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Alcohol

Sherry

Add garlic, thyme leaves, and mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until mushrooms are shrunken and nearly covered in liquid, about 20 minutes.

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Thyme

Mushrooms

Garlic

Add broth or water and cook until flavors have melded, about 30 minutes.Process soup in a blender until smooth (you may have to do this in batches), then return to the pot over low heat.

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Broth

Water

Soup

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Add cream and bring to a simmer.

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Cream

Add lemon juice and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

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Lemon Juice

Salt

Heat the broiler, top baguette slices with 1 to 2 teaspoons blue cheese each, and place on a baking sheet. Broil until cheese is bubbly and toast is crisp, about 1 to 2 minutes. Float 2 to 3 toasts in each bowl and serve.

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Blue Cheese