Are you looking forward to enjoy a soup that offers deep earthy flavors? Then you should try out cream of mushroom soup. This is a soup that you can easily prepare at home. You can get that ready within just few minutes. Keep on reading and you will be able to figure out how to make this soup with your own hands.

Ingredients needed to prepare cream of mushroom soup

Before taking a look at the steps, you will need to get ready with all the ingredients needed. Following are the ingredients you need to have for preparing cream of mushroom soup.

• Four tablespoons of butter
• Two diced onions
• One tablespoon of oil
• 1.5 pounds of mushrooms
• Four cloves of minced garlic
• Four teaspoons of chopped thyme
• Six tablespoons of all-purpose flour
• 1.5 cups of Marsala wine
• Two crumbed beef bouillon cubes
• 1.5 teaspoons of black pepper
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• One cup of heavy cream
• Freshly chopped parsley

Ingredients:

You can purchase all these ingredients from your local supermarket or grocery store. After getting ingredients, follow these steps and you will be able to prepare home-made cream of mushroom soup.

• Prepare ingredients

You should first take a large pot and add oil and butter into it. Then you should heat that under medium heat. You will need to continue doing that until it is melted. Along with that, you can also sauté onion for a couple of minutes. Make sure that they are soft before adding into the recipe. Then you should go ahead with cooking garlic, until it becomes fragrant.

• Add other ingredients

Now you need to add two teaspoons of thyme, mushrooms and cook that for five minutes. You will also be able to add wine and cook that for an additional duration of three minutes.

Then you will need to take flour and sprinkle that over the mushrooms. You will need to mix that and cook for a duration of another two minutes. Along with that, you can add stock and mix the mixture again. This is where you can take that to a boil. You should reduce the overall heat to a medium level and season with the help of pepper, salt and crumbled bouillon cubes.

• Cover the mixture

You should now cover the mixture and make it ready for simmer. Do that for around 15 minutes. Make sure that you are stirring occasionally until it becomes thick.

• Reduce the heat and continue to stir

After 15 minutes, you will need to reduce the heat and continue to stir. This is where you will need to simmer gently. Make sure that you are not boiling the mixture. Then you can add pepper and salt according to your preferences.

• Serve

You can add parsley along with thyme remaining with you before serving.

Follow these steps and you will fall in love with the process of making cream of mushroom soup at home.