MUSHROOM SOUP YAAAAAAAAS 🍄

Makes 4 portions

Ingredients:
1 onion
2 celery stalks
500g cremini mushrooms
4 garlic cloves
1 tsp fresh or dried rosemary
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tbsp olive oil
100ml dry white wine (replace using 1-2 tsp white wine vinegar at step 6)
400g cooked beans
100g frozen packed spinach
1 can coconut milk
400ml vegetable or mushroom stock

Instructions:

1. Finely chop the onion and celery. Using butter or olive oil fry the onion in a pot on medium heat. Once translucent add celery. Continue to cook until celery has softened.
2. In the meantime, roughly slice the mushrooms. Remove onion and celery from the pot and set aside. Throw in the mushrooms into the pot without any additional oil. Add a generous sprinkle of salt and increase the heat to high.
3. Mix the mushrooms until they begin to release their juices. Once all the juices have evaporated, add 1 tbsp of olive oil. Fry until golden brown.
4. Add back in the onion and celery, add crushed garlic, chopped rosemary, thyme and pepper. Stir until the garlic has browned.
5. Pour in the wine and let it fully reduce.
6. Then add the beans, frozen spinach, coconut milk and the stock. If you want the soup to be extra creamy, blend 1/3 of the beans with coconut milk before adding to the pot. Cover and simmer until the spinach has fully melted.
7. Adjust the seasoning and serve with freshly toasted bread.

Trigger warning for mushroom haters, which usually turns out it’s just men. Mushroom soup incoming. You’ll notice that in recipes I usually say use a large onion, but in reality, I’m using like three small ones because in Germany, they’re always just small. In this economy, I buy large onions only when I feel like I want to treat myself. You Americans, you don’t know how good you have it. But wait, no matter how much I don’t like some things in Germany, everything is immediately forgiven the second I walk into the bread section. This pretzel baguette with garlic butter, it goes so well with the soup. Oh my god. And by the way, all of my soups are going to have beans of some sort because fiber and protein important. And if you want the soup to be more creamy, blend a third of the beans with coconut milk. Bye.

26 Comments

  1. I'm a woman. I dislike mushrooms due to texture. Sufficiently chopped/diced or dare say "ground" (like ground meat), I don't mind them and even like it as part of sauce. However, if left in large enough sizes if I bite onto them I find myself gagging.

    yay sensory processing disorder.

  2. german here
    our onions are not small, they are at least average and i bet they‘ve got a great personality!

  3. I don't like mushrooms (I'm a woman) because of the texture (I'm also autistic), but I like mushroom cream, when only I do it tho😅

  4. I'd like to personally thank you for introducing me to the idea of adding spinach to soup and eating it with garlic bread

  5. You have to look for 'Gemüsezwiebeln', if you want the big ones. If available you can often find them near the smaller nets/package… mostly they are sold in nets containing 3-4 big onions. Keep in mind, they aren't as spicy and have a more mild taste as the small yellow/brown onion but therefore contain less sulfur.

  6. No, mushrooms are disgusting. Slimy and spongy. I used to go mushroom picking with my mom as a kid and I could never eat any of it.

  7. Does the coconut milk/cream make it taste like coconut though? I find it tends to be a dominant flavour in other dishes

  8. I thought you were gonna say everything is forgjven in Germany when you walk to the doctor for free 😂 American Healthcare is crazy.

  9. Mushrooms are one of the tastiest things on earth. I love their meaty texture and how they can be incorporated into anything!!❤❤