What could be better and tastier than a thick and rich soup with a pronounced taste and aroma of porcini mushrooms. In today's article we will share the secrets of quickly preparing delicious porcini mushroom soup. To do this, we need to purchase the following ingredients: porcini mushrooms, carrots, onions, sour cream, butter, flour, parsley root, salt, pepper, bay leaf and allspice, herbs.

You should start preparing the soup by preparing the mushrooms. For this dish you can use both fresh and dried mushrooms. In principle, since porcini mushrooms are not easy to find, you can replace them with regular champignons. Of course, the taste of the soup will be radically different. If you use dried mushrooms, before preparing the soup, you need to rinse them thoroughly, cover them with cold water and leave them to soak for twelve hours, then they will cook faster and will be much softer. If you use fresh mushrooms, then simply rinse them and peel them from excess peel.

After the mushrooms have stood in the water, you can put them to boil, it is important to remember that you need to cook them in the same water, then the taste will be more intense. When the mushrooms boil, collect the noise on top and add black and allspice peppers and bay leaves. Chop the carrots, onions and parsley root and cook with the mushrooms. Onions will help highlight the taste of mushrooms, so you shouldn’t skimp on them when preparing this dish. When the vegetables are half cooked, you can add salt. There is a little secret to make the taste of the soup more rich: you can cook it all in chicken broth.

The next step is preparing the flour for our soup. Fry the diced onions in butter until golden brown. To make the onion release more juice and become softer, salt it and add a little sugar. Add finely grated carrots on top of the onion and fry everything together. Then, add a few boatloads of flour to the carrots and onions in the pan and fry for ten minutes. Flour will help make our soup.

Now it’s time to combine the flour and our soup. In order to prevent lumps from forming, we will tell you one trick. Pour half a cup of liquid from the pan, cool it and stir in the toasted flour, you should have a homogeneous thick mixture. Place the resulting mixture back into the pan and mix thoroughly. To make the soup tastier, add a couple of spoons of thick homemade sour cream.