Recipe for "mushroom-soup2"

NAME

     MUSHROOM-SOUP2 - A rich dill, paprika and mushroom soup
     I first saw this at ``Old  Wives  Tale'',  a  restaurant  in
     Portland Oregon. The waiter there said that this had been on
     the menu every day for a year, and  highly  recommended  it.
     The soup was delicious. I was pleasantly surprised to find a
     recipe for it in Molly Katzen's Moosewood Cookbook.

INGREDIENTS (Serves 3-4)

     350 g     mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
     300 g     chopped onion
     1         garlic clove, crushed
     50 g      butter or margarine
     50 ml     flour
     25 cl     milk
     10 ml     dill weed
     15 ml     Hungarian paprika
     15 ml     tamari
               black pepper, to taste
               salt, to taste
     10 ml     lemon juice
     5 dl      vegetable stock or water
     10 g      fresh parsley
     12 cl     sour cream

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Saute onions in large pot with half the butter for
               5 minutes.  Add mushrooms and crushed garlic along
               with dill, paprika,  stock,  and  tamari.   Simmer
               covered for 15 minutes.
          (2)  In a saucepan, melt butter over  medium  heat  and
               stir in flour.  Whisk while heating for 2 minutes,
               then add milk.  Stir often for 10 minutes or until
               thick.
          (3)  Combine mushroom mixture with sauce and simmer for
               15 minutes. Add sour cream.
          (4)  Add lemon juice  and  salt  and  pepper  to  taste
               before serving.  Top with chopped parsley.

NOTES

     Tamari is a kind of soy sauce; if you can't find it, you can
     use ordinary soy sauce.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time:  1  hour.   Precision:  approximate
     measurement OK.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Nicholas Horton
     Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
     horton@harvard.harvard.edu