Mushroom Vegetable Soup with Brussels Sprouts and Leek

Mushroom Soup with Vegetables

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Has anyone ever wondered why a decoction of fruit is called compote, and a decoction of vegetables is called soup???

I did. I gave up thinking after a minute and went to cook a vegetable soup.
I just love a light vegetable soup. Kill me, but no meat. Just vegetables, sometimes mushrooms and herbs. It is something from early childhood, somewhere deep in my memories…

Soup is a liquid dish found all over the world, almost half water, and in most cases it is served at the start of lunch or dinner, usually hot.

I judge by myself: as a little boy, you could make me eat a plate of borscht, but it was hard, while a plate of vegetable soup sprinkled with herbs needed no coaxing.

Ingredients

2 servings

  • Brussels sprouts 100 g
  • Water 1 l
  • Frozen green peas 100 g
  • Carrot 1
  • Leek 1
  • Button mushrooms 100 g
  • Butter 1 tbsp, for frying
  • Parsley 1-2 sprigs
  • Bay leaf 1
  • Salt, ground black pepper to taste
  • Homemade sour cream 1 spoonful (optional)

Step-by-step recipe

Mushrooms, peas and carrot

  1. I try to cut all the vegetables so that they cook through at the same time.

  2. Pour 1 l of water into a pot. Season the water lightly with pepper and salt and add one bay leaf.

  3. Wash the mushrooms and cut them into quarters or halves. Peel the carrot and cut it into small pieces.

    Mushrooms and vegetables for the soup.
  4. Add the mushrooms, frozen green peas and carrot to the water and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook for 10 minutes from the moment the water comes to a boil, over medium heat.

    Cooking the mushrooms, peas and carrot.

Leek and Brussels sprouts

  1. While the vegetables cook, cut the leek into thin rings and fry it briefly in butter over medium heat until soft and lightly golden.

    Frying the leek.
  2. Add the sauteed leek and Brussels sprouts to the soup. Remove the bay leaf from the soup.

    Adding Brussels sprouts and leek to the vegetable soup.
  3. Salt and pepper the soup to your taste, but remember that the flavor of the vegetables should not be drowned out by salt and pepper. And they say that cooking without salt is fashionable anyway.

    Keep cooking the soup for 10 minutes from the moment it comes back to a boil after adding the Brussels sprouts, stirring occasionally, until the sprouts are tender.

Serving

  1. Before serving, be sure to sprinkle the vegetable soup with parsley. Serve the soup hot.

    Serving the vegetable soup hot.

    It is also very good with a spoonful of good homemade sour cream stirred in. But only if you have it. If not, it is better to add nothing at all.

    mushroom soup

Calories and macros

210 kcal

Serving ≈ 740 g

  • Protein8 g16% of kcal
  • Fat9 g42% of kcal
  • Carbs21 g43% of kcal

100 g28 kcalProtein 1 gFat 1.2 gCarbs 2.8 g

Calculated from the recipe ingredients, excluding salt and spices. Data: USDA and Matvaretabellen.

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