Vegetable soup with shitake mushrooms
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ingredients
5 pcs shitake mushrooms 3 pcs carrots 5 pcs young broccoli florets pcs white part of leek 1 stalk of celery 1 pcs scallions 2 cloves garlic 100 g barley grits 1 KL fenugreek 1 KL ground organic turmeric pcs salt pcs rapeseed oil
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I’ve been giving the mushrooms to my little girl (she’ll be three now) so far, just in the form of broths or blended into a smooth cream. Kids find mushrooms slimy and unappealing. Local mushrooms are probably best for them, or oak, chanterelles, butternut, or mushrooms. Now I’ve picked a locally distant shitake, for us “grown-ups” in rice. I set a few aside for soup, broths with mushrooms have an oddly full but mild flavor. Additionally, shitake is hailed by mushroom sites as a medicinal mushroom that Eastern populations indulge in to nourish a tired or ailing body. Or to improve concentration. At a minimum. So we cooked one today – mushroom. Although with a predominance of local Vegetable Recipes.:)
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Cut carrots and leeks into smaller pieces (our kids hate big pieces). I cut the broccoli completely into minimal dots. I found the onion last in the fridge…from the first in the spring bed, I just cleaned it like garlic and left it in the piece, like the celery stalk.
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I sauteed carrots with leeks and fenugreek in hot oil, added salt. Whenever I use grits by adding them straight to the soup without pre-cooking, I add salt already to the “base”, the grits sort of desalinate the water and then I can’t get the salt to hit my taste . The soup was also meant for kids, so there was enough salt in the base and I didn’t even need to add more.
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I poured water into the softened carrots. Now I threw in the washed shitake. I put them in whole for effect in the photo, but for convenience of eating them, I would surely slice them into thin slices the second time.
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Added the rest of the ingredients without the broccoli. When the grits were cooked, I dumped in the prepared, chopped broccoli and removed from the heat. Since it was chopped completely into bite-sized pieces, it cooked itself until the soup cooled to an edible flavor.
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Nothing more or less, that’s all, may it taste good to you too ….kids had a dupla which is like a found treasure for me.
