
Easy Homestead Cream of Mushroom Soup
This cream of mushroom soup is rich, cozy, and made completely from scratch using simple, real ingredients. Creamy and full of deep mushroom flavor, it’s perfect on its own or as a homemade replacement for canned soup in your favorite recipes.
Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Servings: 6
Calories: 262
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Clean mushrooms, discard any hard steams and chop into little pieces
- In a large heavy bottomed pot or Dutch oven, melt butter, add onions and cook until soft 5-8 minutes
- Add mushrooms, salt, pepper, cover over medium heat, stirring often until mushroom release their liquid, about 10 minutes
- Add flour and stir to coat the mixture, cook for 1 minute. Add sherry and cook for an additional minute
- Stir in chicken broth, thyme leaves, bring to a boil
- Reduce heat to maintain a simmer and cook for 20 minutes. Stirring occasionally
- Remove from heat. Transfer 1 ½ cups of soup to a blender or food processor and puree until smooth
- Stir pureed soup back into the pot
- Stir in heavy cream and season with salt and pepper to taste
- Gently warm over low heat, if needed, and serve.

