rich-tasting mushroom soup. You could add cream or crème fraîche, at the end as a swirl if you wished, but it doesn't need it. Measure 150ml/5fl oz just-boiled water and pour it over the dried ...
Use a mixture of wild mushrooms to make this luxurious mushroom soup really special. A wonderful starter at a dinner party. Sweat the shallots in the butter with a pinch of salt for 3 minutes.
The water used to reconstitute the dried food is a stock in its own right. If meat and vegetables are added and the water is brought to a quick boil, it will turn into a gentle-tasting soup.
The soup is now ready to serve. Note: Dried sage leaves are tiny, dried bits of crumbled sage. It’s sold in the bottled herb aisle of grocery stores. Don’t confuse it with powdery ground sage.