Just in time for fall!
2 pkgs. of sliced, rinsed mushrooms
Heavy Cream
Coconut Milk
Dollop of whipped Cream Cheese
fresh garlic - one or 2 cloves
dash of tumeric
sea salt
Put mushrooms and garlic in food processor on chop/puree and pulse so it makes small slivers.
Put filtered water and amount of cream/ water /coconut milk ratio adjust for your WOE and add the mushroom mix.
Add dash of turmeric and sea salt to taste. Add dollop of whipped cream cheese and stir to melt it.
Cook for 10 minutes or so until mushrooms are cooked. Stir while cooking so
cream mixture doesn't scald.
Tastes alot like La Madeleine's mushroom soup for half the cost.
Not sure of carbs but mushrooms are low in carbs and calories.
Full Version: Mushroom Cream Soup
It sure sounds good and that's a very interesting way of making it. I'd never have thought to chop everything together before cooking it but that actually sounds easier than pureeing it after cooking it. Do you process all of the mushrooms or leave some larger pieces? I've never had La Madeleine's mushroom soup so I don't know what it's like.
Linda Sue
I forgot to add dollop of whipped cream cheese when cooking and melt it in soup. I edited the recipe to add that.
La Madeleine's is a French restaurant/bistro around Dallas area. I'm not really a cook so not sure about technical definition of pureeing but you want it more of a fine chop than puree I think. Little slivers not a paste, if that makes sense.
You can experiment with the turmeric. I just added that cuz it was in the cabinet and said "add me!" It's healthy anyway and soup tasted great...Passed my dh's taste test!
I forgot to add dollop of whipped cream cheese when cooking and melt it in soup. I edited the recipe to add that.
La Madeleine's is a French restaurant/bistro around Dallas area. I'm not really a cook so not sure about technical definition of pureeing but you want it more of a fine chop than puree I think. Little slivers not a paste, if that makes sense.
You can experiment with the turmeric. I just added that cuz it was in the cabinet and said "add me!" It's healthy anyway and soup tasted great...Passed my dh's taste test!
We do have La Madeleine here in Houston but I've never tried their cream of mushroom soup. My favorite dish there used to be the puff pastry stuffed with chicken with a mushroom cream sauce over it. I don't remember what it was called at the moment.
Linda Sue
A fellow texan! Howdy!
Got the old food processor out...here's what I did and worked better than Magic Bullet - you're right - it's chop/puree but I pulsed mushrooms and just added 2 garlic cloves.
Then added cream. If you add liquids when pulsing it gets too fine.
Also added cocoanut milk (about 7 carbs in a can - this was a lite version dh bot)
to the cream cuz I'm thinking coconut more healthy than alot of cream.
Will edit recipe to reflect that. It's better this was cuz mushroom pieces are chewey to make you more satisfied imho.
If you can, order there mushroom soup and see if it compares or something else is needed. I thinks it pretty close.
Note: maybe your need to slice mushrooms..Noticing the mushrooms cook down in size but I can't find my slicer attachment to try!
A fellow texan! Howdy!
Got the old food processor out...here's what I did and worked better than Magic Bullet - you're right - it's chop/puree but I pulsed mushrooms and just added 2 garlic cloves.
Then added cream. If you add liquids when pulsing it gets too fine.
Also added cocoanut milk (about 7 carbs in a can - this was a lite version dh bot)
to the cream cuz I'm thinking coconut more healthy than alot of cream.
Will edit recipe to reflect that. It's better this was cuz mushroom pieces are chewey to make you more satisfied imho.
If you can, order there mushroom soup and see if it compares or something else is needed. I thinks it pretty close.
Note: maybe your need to slice mushrooms..Noticing the mushrooms cook down in size but I can't find my slicer attachment to try!
This sounds wonderful. I will definitely try it come the first cold (or cool) front we get (I'm in Houston, too!)
Now, if I can find a good LC version of La Madeleine's tomato soup.
Now, if I can find a good LC version of La Madeleine's tomato soup.
| QUOTE (robinw @ Oct 2 2007, 02:31 PM) |
| Now, if I can find a good LC version of La Madeleine's tomato soup. |
Here's a copycat version that's floating around the internet. It's only high in carbs because of the tomatoes and tomato juice but if you left those out it wouldn't be tomato soup, would it, LOL. I think that tomato juice probably has sugar in it so maybe use tomato sauce instead or tomato sauce diluted with some water? Maybe the easiest way to low carb this would be to just eat a tiny serving. It looks like it would be easily cut down by a quarter if you might be tempted to eat too much. At least there seems to be a lot of fat in the recipe to offset all those carbs from the tomatoes.
La Madeleine's Tomato-Basil Soup
8 servings
4 cups tomatoes, cored, peeled, and chopped (8-10) or canned whole tomatoes, crushed
4 cups tomato juice (or part vegetable or part chicken stock)
12-14 basil leaves, washed fresh
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 lb sweet unsalted butter
salt
1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
lemon juice (optional)
Combine tomatoes, juice/and or stock in saucepan.
Simmer 30 minutes.
Puree, along with the basil leaves, in small batches, in blender, food processor (or better yet, one of those handy hand-held food blenders, right in the cooking pan).
Return to saucepan and add cream and butter, while stirring, over low heat.
Garnish with basil leaves and serve with your favorite bread.
Excerpted from an article by Beverly Bundy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram around May 20. 1994. She wrote, "Once a year, in January I run a column of our most requested recipes -- This year, that column included the recipe for La Madeleine's popular tomato basil soup. I continue to get at least 10 calls a week asking for the recipe. So here it is, once again -- ".
| QUOTE (LindaSue @ Oct 2 2007, 03:47 PM) |
| Here's a copycat version that's floating around the internet. |
Thanks LindaSue!! I know something like this would be an occasional indulgence, but it's too devine to give up completely. It would be good to have on maintenance (not there yet) every now and again.
Thanks again!
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