Creamy Porcini Mushroom Soup
Automatically translated from Romanian. See the Romanian original
A smooth, creamy porcini mushroom soup with vegetables, blended until silky and sprinkled with nutritional yeast instead of sour cream—perfect for a vegan, gluten-free, or dairy-free diet.
Ingredients
Method
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Place the red onions, garlic, potatoes, porcini mushrooms, carrots, celery, and the tablespoon of salt into a pot to boil together.
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Once the vegetables are cooked through and tender enough to be blended, remove the excess water into a bowl (it can be used later if the soup is too thick).
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Puree the vegetables using an immersion blender until you reach a smooth, homogeneous mixture.
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Season to taste with salt, thyme, nutritional yeast, chili, and extra virgin olive oil.
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Blend for another 2 minutes and the soup is ready.
The story behind this recipe
I recently discovered nutritional yeast flakes, and I absolutely love their flavor. I'm tempted to use them daily in salads, soups, risotto, meatballs, as a parmesan substitute for pasta, in omelets, or in sauces. Nutritional yeast provides a high amount of protein and vitamins B1, B2, B6, zinc, and folic acid, which are all welcome additions if you follow an ovo-lacto-vegetarian or vegan diet, and beyond. It is also safe for those with gluten or lactose intolerance. Today I sprinkled it on top of the cream soup, but I also added it while pureeing the vegetables to give it that creamy texture usually achieved with sour cream or butter. The recipe is simple: I boiled together 2 red onions, 5 garlic cloves, 3 potatoes, 500g of porcini mushrooms, 2 carrots, 100g of celery root, and 1 tablespoon of salt. When the vegetables were soft enough to puree, I drained the excess water into a bowl (you might need it if the soup is too thick), and blended them with an immersion blender until I got a smooth, homogeneous mixture. I seasoned it to taste with salt, thyme, nutritional yeast, chili, and extra virgin olive oil. I blended it for another 2 minutes, and that was it. Enjoy! And remember: You are what you eat!
