Welsh Family Kitchen
Smoked Portobello Mushroom Soup Served by the bowl Served as an Amuse Bouch
Tom originally secured this recipe in June, 2003, while having dinner at the Artist Point Restaurant at the Wilderness Lodge on the banks of Bay Lake at Walt Disney World. We have made significant changes due to the lack of availability of certain ingredients. It is not as good as the original (go figure!) but is still very tasty.
Ingredients:
3 lbs Portobello mushrooms
1 Sweet onion, chopped
1/2 cup White Wine
5 cups 1/2 & 1/2
32 oz Chicken Broth
1 T Better Than Boullion Chicken
1 Tablespoon Liquid Smoke
1 Tablespoon minced garlic
2 T butter
Chive oil [Optional]
S & P, Croutons, Chipotle Tabasco, Sour Cream, Chives for garnish [optional]
Procedures:
Boil 8 oz chopped baby Portobello mushrooms in 2 cups of water, the liquid smoke and S&P. Reduce to 1/2 cup to create mushroom stock.
Chop the remaining mushrooms. Sauté the onions lightly (to sweat) in 1 tablespoon of butter, a little water and S&P. Add the chopped mushrooms to the onions and cook, covered, until tender.
Add the wine, mushroom stock; reduce by half [~15 minutes], adding the garlic the last 2 minutes.
Cool and puree with the food processor.
Add the chicken stock and the 1/2 & 1/2
Season to taste, and add the other Tablespoon of butter and some Chipotle Tabasco (to taste) and let simmer for 20 minutes. If you like the consistency, simmer covered. If it seems too watery, simmer uncovered.
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Serve hot and garnish with Chive oil, croutons, sour cream and chives, all optional
Notes:
2022-01-16: We used a yellow onion in the absence of a sweet one. Lyd added a little BTB for seasoning. The optional were all skipped and 5 quarts went to the freezer for future use.
2019-10-12: A batch of 5 quarts. We used 1 teaspoon "Better Than Boullion Vegetable" in the onions as they sauteed, and added the chicken broth to the mushroom onion mix with the mushrom stock. Boil, Reduce, Coole, Puree.
2018-08-28: Four quarts went to the dungeon freezer.
2015-08-12: 4 quarts for the freezer.
2003-06: Added to our cookbook
02/14/2022
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