Barley and Mushroom Soup

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Barley and Mushroom Soup

 

Recipe By :A. D. Livingston

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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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1/2 cup pearl barley

8 ounces fresh mushrooms -- chopped

1/4 ounce dried mushrooms

4 cups vegetable stock

1 cup hot water

2 tablespoons butter or margarine

1 medium onion -- diced

3 cloves garlic -- minced

1 small carrot -- diced

1 rib celery -- with green tops, diced

1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley

salt and freshly ground black pepper -- to taste

 

Steep the dried mushrooms in 1 cup of hot water for 30 minutes or longer.

Squeeze the liquid from the fresh mushrooms and dice them, being sure to save

the liquid. Melt the butter in a soup pot or stove-top Dutch oven. Saute the

fresh mushrooms, onion, garlic, carrot, and celery until tender. Stir in the

pearl barley. Cook, stirring as you go, for 5 or 6 minutes. Stir in the diced

dried mushrooms and their soaking liquid. Add the stock, bring to a boil, reduce

the heat, cover, and simmer for an hour. Season with salt and pepper, stirring

as you go, and sprinkle with chopped fresh parsley. Serve hot in soup bowls,

along with plenty of hot chewy homemade French bread. If the French bread is too

tough to chew, dunk it.

 

 

 

Source:

" The Whole Grain Cookbook "

Copyright:

" 2000 A. D. Livingston "

 

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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 1375 Calories; 41g Fat (25.9% calories

from fat); 42g Protein; 220g Carbohydrate; 37g Dietary Fiber; 72mg Cholesterol;

6831mg Sodium. Exchanges: 12 Grain(Starch); 7 Vegetable; 8 1/2 Fat.

 

NOTES : This barley soup is made with both fresh and dried mushrooms. The dried

mushrooms, preferably shiitake or morels, are very flavorful, and add greatly to

this soup; even the water in which they are reconstituted is used. If you gather

your own wild mushrooms, as I do, it's easy to dry a few in a modern food

dehydrator. The beef stock used in the recipe should be made at home from

scratch, but I'll allow stock made with bouillon cubes.

 

note - original recipe used beef broth

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