Freshly prepared mushroom soup from oyster mushrooms with cream cheese is always aromatic and nutritious. This dish is easy to prepare, and its creamy cheese flavor will delight even the experienced hot lover. Also, the advantage of this dish is that all its ingredients are not seasonal, and they can be purchased at the store all year round.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For this dish, it is better to buy a young oyster mushroom. It can be easily distinguished by a hat of brown or dark gray color and a dense short leg. Before cooking, the mushroom product must be cleaned of dirt and washed with running water. Then slightly trim the bottom of the leg, which is stiff and can negatively affect the taste of the dish. Also, when cooking broth from oyster mushrooms, culinary experts recommend cutting the mushroom into small pieces, because this representative of the mushroom kingdom is large.
Did you know? The oldest recipe for European soup dates back to the 4th century. According to the culinary book that has survived to our times, wheat, minced meat, fish sauce, olive oil, bay leaf, caraway seeds and pepper were used in its preparation.
Cheese for soup is suitable for anyone, but it is better to choose processed cheese, it dissolves faster. Although adherents of a healthy diet opt for solid varieties. The remaining vegetables that are used in recipes for soups (onions, potatoes, carrots) should be selected fresh, not sluggish.
Cheese and mushroom soup recipes
There are a lot of recipes for oyster soup with cheese. They are varied in the number of ingredients and cooking time. Here are some examples of them.
Classical
425 min
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Wash vegetables under running water and peel.
- Cut the potatoes into cubes, chop the onion as finely as possible, grate the carrots, and it is better to chop the mushrooms with straws. Garlic must either be passed through a press or grated on a fine grater. It is better to crush the cheese into small cubes or use a grater.
- Add potatoes and cheese to boiling water.
- Fry the onions in a pan, gradually adding carrots and mushrooms. It takes 8-10 minutes. During this time, the cheese is completely dissolved in boiling water, and the potato tubers become almost cooked.
- Ready roasting is thrown into the pan, bay leaf, salt, pepper and herbs are sent for it.
- After 3 minutes turn off the fire. The dish is served with sour cream.
Did you know? Soup was one of the favorite dishes of the ancient Greeks, in those days there was even such a proverb: “All of Greece is growing on bean soup.” Nowadays, soups are served in this country on Fridays.
Chicken with Cream Cheese
5–630–35 min
potato tubers (medium)
4 things.
cream cheese
100 g or 2 tbsp. spoons
ground black pepper
1-2 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Boil chicken in water for about an hour. Add potatoes cut into small cubes into a pot with broth.
- Put the oyster mushroom, shredded with straws in a heated frying pan, and after a minute, pour finely chopped onions and carrots grated on a coarse grater there.
- When the vegetables turn golden, attach the string beans to them. 5 minutes later fry can be salted and pepper to taste, and then pour it into the broth.
- Add chopped cheese there (cut into small cubes or grated on a coarse grater).
- The dish must be mixed until smooth for 2-3 minutes. If necessary, add salt and sprinkle with herbs, turn off the stove.
Video recipe
Chicken with Cream Cheese
Important! Many housewives prefer to put in any dish, even soups, pre-boiled oyster mushroom. This is not necessary, because oyster mushroom belongs to those mushrooms that can be eaten raw. But if it turned out to get older mushrooms, then it is better to boil them.
With vegetables
440 min
cream cheese
1 PC. (150 g)
corn grits
80–120 g
greens (parsley, dill, cilantro)
30 g
Brussels sprouts
350-400 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Finely chopped onions are fried in the pan and, after a while, carrots added to it, grated on a coarse grater.
- After the vegetables are golden, they need to be folded into a pan.
- Separately for 5 minutes. fry oyster mushrooms cut into slices and put onion and carrots.
- Pour in water and bring to a boil.
- Add finely chopped potatoes and grated cream cheese. Stir 2-3 minutes, until the mass becomes homogeneous.
- Cut the cabbage in half and put in the soup.
- Add sugar and cornmeal, salt to taste.
- Cook for 12-15 minutes. Before turning off the fire, toss the greens into the pan, this dish with sour cream is served.
There are a great variety of soups with cheese and mushrooms. They can be both vegetable and meat, with various spices and ingredients. This dish combines excellent taste and ease of preparation.