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Title: Potato-Mushroom Soup
Categories: Soup Jewish Mushroom Beef
Yield: 10 Servings
| 1/2 | c | Dried baby lima beans |
| 6 | c | ;water, cold |
| 1/4 | c | Corn or vegetable oil |
| 1 | lg | Onion, diced |
| 2 | Stks celery, diced small | |
| 4 | Cloves garlic, crushed | |
| 3 | qt | Beef or chicken broth |
| 2 | Carrots, peeled & diced | |
| 2 | lb | Mushrooms, sliced |
| 4 | lg | Idaho potatoes,peeled & dice |
| 1/4 | ts | ;pepper salt, to taste |
Soak the baby lima beans in water overnight. Drain & rinse beans before adding them to the soup.
In bottom of 5 or 6-qt soup kettle or pot, heat oil & saute onion, celery, & garlic untilvegetables start to turn transparent, but not browned (about 10 mins). Add broth, lima beans, carrots, & mushrooms. Simmer gently, stirring occasionally, until lima beans are tender, abt 1-1/2 to 2 hrs. Add potatoes after soup has cooked for 1 hr. If soup gets too thick, add more broth or water. Taste for seasoning, add 1/4 tb pepper & salt, if needed. Serve hot. Makes 10 to 12 servings.
ADVICE FROM MAMA: 1. If you like, you can, substitute 1/2 c dried mushrooms for 1 lb fresh mushrooms. Soak the dried mushrooms in hot water to cover for 20 mins, strain, & add to soup. You can strain the mushroom soaking water through a paper coffee filter & substitute it for an equal amount of the broth. Dried mushrooms have a more intense, woodsy flavor & this will give a rich taste to the soup. 2. This soup keeps well for several days in the refrigerator & becomes more delicious every time you reheat it. It does not ,however, freeze very well because of the potatoes.
NOTE: This is a very delicious Old World soup. The combination of lima beans, mushrooms, & potatoes is very earthy & satisfying. This soup can definitely make a meal, & if you substitute vegetable broth made from vegetable bouillon cubes, it is a great meal if you are trying to please some vegetarians.
Recipe: Mama Leah's Jewish Kitchen, A Compendium Of More Than 225 Tasty Recipes -- Kugel To Kasha -- Blintzes To Borscht -- by Leah Loeb Fischer w/Maria Poluskin Robbins. Copyrighted 1990 Published by MacMillan Publishing Company.
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