Low Fat And Fast Mushroom Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Chop the onion fine and place in non stick pan with butter and oil.
• Once onion is clear.
• add mushrooms and cook and beginning change color and smells great- Add all spices.
• Add broth and allow to cook uncover for 10-15 minutes.
• Remove from heat, with stick blender breakup larger pieces and thicken broth or place half the batch in the blender.
• Add Fat free half and half and salt and pepper to taste and enjoy.

Steps:

• Put the pearl barley in a pan with 3 cups cold water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 45 minutes, checking on it often to make sure it doesn't boil dry.
• Meanwhile, chop the rest of the veggies, including the garlic.
• Drain the pearl barley, rinse and drain again.
• Put the pearl barley, veggies, garlic and chicken stock in a pan, cover and simmer for 30 minutes until all the veggies are softened.
• Blend the soup well until it is of a smooth consistency.
• This makes quite a thick soup- I like to add milk after blending but you could simply increase the amount of stock you use.