In our country, potatoes and mushrooms are a fairly popular, even traditional mix. Today we will talk about a soup of these ingredients, with step-by-step cooking instructions.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
It is customary to cook soup in Russian cuisine from wild mushrooms, but due to modern conditions in the recipe they are often replaced with champignons. Artificially grown product is available and safe, unlike many forest relatives collected by inexperienced mushroom pickers or in ecologically disadvantaged regions. Mushrooms should be white, clean, without suspicious stains and mucous secretions.
Important! Dark champignons were stored incorrectly, so you should not buy them, especially if the plates are almost black.
Mushroom and Potato Soup Recipe
8-10 servings1 hour 10 minutes
meat (chicken breast or thighs)
250 g
vegetable oil
3-4 tbsp. l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- First of all, you need to cook meat broth. To do this, boil the breast almost until ready.
- As you cook, you need to remove the "noise" from the surface of the water so that the broth is clean and transparent.
- While the meat is being cooked, the mushrooms are washed and peeled, and chopped with plates.
- Dice the onion, carrots as well.
- Check the readiness of the meat 15 minutes after boiling - it should be almost ready.
- Peel the potatoes, cut into large cubes and send to the pan. Water needs to be slightly salted and put a bay leaf there.
- After 5-7 minutes, thrice washed in the pan is added to the pan, left to cook for 10 minutes.
- Sunflower oil is poured into the pan, heated and mushrooms are sent to fry.
- When the liquid secreted by the champignons evaporates, add onions and carrots.
- As soon as the fried vegetables turn golden, add cream, a little salt and a couple of spoons of the broth. Allow to boil for 2-3 minutes and pour everything into the pan.
- A few minutes before readiness finely chopped herbs and sent to the soup.
- Creamy soup will complement homemade bread perfectly.
Video recipe
Important! For mushroom soup, it is better to take chicken or lean veal. Mushrooms are considered heavy food, and the addition of a fatty type of meat will not contribute to the digestion of the dish.
Soup with mushrooms and potatoes, seasoned with herbs and cream, it turns out hearty and delicate in taste. It does not take long to prepare, and the ingredients are available at any supermarket.
